Herman Frederik van Hengel was a painter, decorative painter (of interiors), art dealer (person) born on 1705 at Nijmegen and deceased on 1785-02-09 in Utrecht. He was taught to paint flowers by Ernst Stuven and became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1712. He was court painter to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine in 1713. He returned to the Netherlands in 1717, but left on a trip via Brussels and Paris to London, where he stayed except in 1737, when he took a trip to Leeuwarden. He also taught Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, drawing and painting. He died in Utrecht in 1785.