Isaak van den Blocke

Sources identify his place of birth either as Mechelen in the Southern Netherlands or Königsberg (then in Prussia and today Kaliningrad in Russia).

[1] His father was Willem van den Blocke, a Flemish sculptor and architect who had trained with Cornelis Floris in Antwerp.

[1] Van den Blocke died in Danzig around the same time as his father and brother Abraham, likely from an infectious disease.

He was strongly influenced by the Northern Mannerism and the perspectival paintings of his presumed teachers Hans and Paul Vredeman de Vries.

His principal work is the decoration of the ceiling (completed 1608) of the Great Chamber of the former main town hall in Danzig.

[4] He received regular commissions from the city council, including figure paintings and the polychroming of buildings.