Mattheus van Helmont (1623 – after 1679),

• Was a Flemish painter specialized in genre scenes of interiors and village scenes.
• Mattheus van Helmont was born in Antwerp.
• He was baptised in the Cathedral of Antwerp on 24 July 1623.
• Mattheus first joined the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as the son of a master and in 1645 he became a full master in the Guild.

• He joined the Brussels Guild of Saint Luke in 1674.

• On 17 August 1647 he married Margaratha Verstock.

• The couple had four sons, of whom two – Jan and Gaspard – trained with their father and became painters. 

• Jan became a portrait painter.

• Gaspard entered the Antwerp Guild in 1679 as a portrait painter.

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