Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (1614–1669), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken, Joost van den Vondel made a poem about him. Nikolaas de Helt Stokade in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
Stockade served as a court painter to King Louis XIII between 1637 and 1645. According to the RKD he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1646 and worked on the city hall of Nijmegen and the Amsterdam City Hall.Helt Stockade in the RKD
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