Nicolaus Heideloff (1761 - 1837)

Nicolaus Heideloff

Nicolaus Heideloff, full name Nikolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens van Heideloff, was a German painter and copperplate engraver and publisher.

Heideloff came from a respected family in Germany that included prominent painters and sculptors. He studied and worked in Paris, but had to flee to London during the French Revolution, where he spent 30 years of his life. Here he worked as a publisher for the most luxurious fashion magazine of the time, The Fashion Gallery, which published elaborate color copperplate prints, aquatints, and etchings. Heideloff drew many outfits for the publication for all occasions of high society.

Nikolaus Heideloff also depicted historical scenes, battles, the British navy, and caricatures for Rudolf Ackermann while he was working in London until 1814, often as hand-colored etchings.

In 1815, William I, King of the Netherlands, appointed him director of an art gallery in The Hague.