(1684 - 1763)
Hendrik Frans van Lint was one of a number of northern European artists working in Rome in the eighteenth century. He was born in Antwerp in 1684 to the artist Pieter van Lint, who had worked in Rome in the 1630s. Hendrick entered the studio of Pieter van Bredael in 1697and went on to spend the rest of his life living and working in Rome.