The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Balen, Hendrik van
(hn´drk vän bä´ln) (KEY) , 15751632, Flemish painter, b. Antwerp. Van Balen usually provided the figures for scenes in which another painter, frequently Jan Brueghel, designed the landscape settings. A minor artist, van Balen is noted mainly for his mythological scenes, of which Landscape with Two Nymphs (Munich) is typical.