Bernard de Bailliu

Bernard de Bailliu (1641 in Antwerp – after 1684 in Antwerp or Rome) was a Flemish reproductive engraver who was active in Antwerp and Rome.

He trained and worked in the workshop of his father for several years. He became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1662.

He travelled in 1668 to Rome. Here he joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing nickname, the so-called 'bent name'. He was given the bent name Hemel, meaning 'heaven'.

Although he last appears in records in Rome in 1671, he must still have been a resident in 1684 as he created a Portrait of Pietro Cardinal Basadonna after Godfrey Kneller in Rome in that year.