Willem van Haecht

Willem van Haecht (1593 – 12 July 1637) was a Flemish painter best known for his pictures of art galleries and collections.

Willem van Haecht was born in Antwerp as the son of the landscape painter Tobias Verhaecht.

This collection is represented in allegorical terms in the Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest (1628; Rubenshuis, Antwerp).

The left side of the painting includes various portraits of contemporaneous figures, including (from the left) Infanta Isabel Clara of Spain, Archduke Albert of Austria, Peter Paul Rubens, Prince Władysław Vasa of Poland (who visited van der Geest's Gallery in 1624, with black hat) and the host showing a picture,[1] as well as many famous paintings such as Paracelsus by Quentin Matsys.

Alexander the Great Visiting the Studio of Apelles (c. 1630, Mauritshuis) is another gallery painting by van Haecht.