Nikolaus van Hoy (b.1631 - d.1679)

• Nikolaas van Hoy was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and etcher.
• He was born in Antwerp.

• He worked in Brussels between 1647 - 1655.

• He is also reported to have spent some time in Rome.

• He went to Vienna in 1657.

• At about 1667 he became the court painter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.

• He retained this post until his death in Vienna in 1679.

• He was succeeded at the court by his son Nickolaus Van Hoy the Younger.

• He engraved religious scenes and mythological figures adapted from originals of Veronese, Barocci and Raphael.

• He was one of the artists and engravers who collaborated with David Teniers the Younger on the publication entitled "Theatrum Pictorium", a catalogue of the picture gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.

• He made a series of 13 engravings of cavalcades or equestrian ballets, which were later remade by Jan van Ossenbeeck. 

• He died in Hamburg. 

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