Magdalena van den HeckenMagdalena van den Hecken was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.BiographyEarly lifeVan den Hecken may have been born in Antwerp. She is the daughter of the painter Samuel van den Hecken and moved with her family to Amsterdam.EducationMagadalena's father joined the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1617 as a master painter.PaintingsMagdalena mostly painted flowers, which were in the medium of oil paint. She also painted in insects and animals.LegacySeveral of Magdalena's works are located at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge, two in the Kunsthaus Zürich.