Daniel van Heil (1604–1662/1664) was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter from Brussels, renowned for his dramatic scenes of city fires, winter landscapes, and architectural ruins. Born into an artistic family—his father Leo (or Leon) was a painter, and his brothers Leo and Jan Baptist were also active as an architect-painter and portraitist—van Heil likely received his earliest training within the family workshop. He became a master in the Brussels Guild of St. Luke in 1627, marking his formal entry into the city’s professional artistic community.

Van Heil developed a distinctive specialization in three principal subjects: winter landscapes, landscapes with ruins, and conflagrations of cities. His winter scenes are admired for ...