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in 1587. The figures are rather wooden in the late Mannerist style. However, the heads show the artist's skill for portraiture. Frans Francken I was also a portrait painter and a few court portraits have been attributed to him.
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and London, Brompton Oratory) which bears his monogram as well as that of his brother Hieronymus. The brothers included self-portraits in profile: Hieronymus on the left side and Frans on the right side of the triptych.
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Frans Francken married Elisabeth Mertens. The couple had many children, of whom at the time of his death in 1619 six were still alive: Thomas ( b Antwerp, 28 Feb 1574; d Antwerp, c. 1625 ),
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His earliest paintings were in the style of Frans Floris but after 1600 he developed his own style which displayed classicising characteristics not unlike those in the work of
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would excel. He was further known for his allegorical paintings and his son Frans would continue this tradition. An example of an allegorical painting is
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Connecting people : documenting the activities of the Antwerp painter Hieronymus Francken, and other Floris disciples, in Paris after 1566
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North-European panel paintings: catalogue of Netherlandish & German paintings before 1600 in English churches & colleges
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Francken was born in Herentals as the son of Nicholas Francken, an obscure painter from Herentals. His father later settled in
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Carl Van de Velde. "Frans Floris I." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 26 March 2015
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Frans Francken the Elder worked mainly on altar pieces as there was a great demand for such works as a result of the
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Ilja M. Veldman. "Romanism." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 26 March 2015
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and their followers. Their art assimilated these Italian influences into the Northern painting tradition.
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Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 25 August 2023
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wrote that Frans Francken the Elder was a pupil of the leading Antwerp
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In 1571 he collaborated with his older brother Hieronymus on a large
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and was likely his first teacher. He became a master of the Antwerp
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painter who was one of the principal painters in Antwerp during the
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in 1567 and was its deacon in 1587. His younger brothers
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both became successful painters. The early biographer
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Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Index

Frans Francken I

Rubens
Herentals
Antwerp
Flemish
Counter-Reformation
Antwerp
Guild of St. Luke
Hieronymus Francken I
Ambrosius Francken I
Karel van Mander
Romanist
Frans Floris
High Renaissance
Michelangelo
Raphael

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Frans
Hieronymus
Ambrosius II
Frans
Gortzius Geldorp
Herman van der Mast
Jan de Wael

iconoclasm
Calvinists
Christ among the Scribes

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