The Visionary Landscapes of Nicolaes Jacobsz van der Heck In the golden era of Dutch painting, few artists possessed the ability to weave together the serene beauty of the natural world with the unsettling shadows of the supernatural as masterfully as Nicolaes Jacobsz van der Heck. Born in the historic city of Alkmaar around 1575, Van der Heck was a painter whose lineage and training placed him at the very heart of the Dutch Golden Ag…