Portrait, Vienna Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 211.
FRANCKEN (Franck), AMBROSIUS, the
elder, born at Hérenthals in 1544, died in
Antwerp, Oct. 16, 1618. Flemish school;
history and portrait painter. Son of Nicolas
(died 1596), a mediocre painter; pupil
of Frans Floris; when twenty-five years old
went to Fontainebleau to study the great
frescos of Il Rosso and of Primaticcio. In
1573 free master of St. Luke's Guild at Antwerp,
and in 1581-82 its dean. Works:
Madonna with Angels (wreath of flowers by
Jeronimus van Kessel), Dresden Gallery;
Martyrdom of St. Crispinus, Miracle of the
Loaves (1598), Last Supper, Martyrdom of
St. George, four episodes from life of St.
Sebastian, twelve others, Antwerp Museum;
Christ and the Adulteress, Raising of Jairus's
Daughter, Christ on Mount of Olives (1600,
masterpieces), The Trinity (1608), several
Portraits, St. Jacob's Church, Antwerp; Exit
from the Ark, Valenciennes Museum. Ambrosius,
the younger (died 1632), who was
a master in the Antwerp guild
in 1624, was son and pupil of
Frans the elder.—Biog. nat.
de Belgique, vii. 243; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers
(1874), 159; Michiels, vi. 318; Rooses
(Reber), 110; Van den Branden, 351.
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FRANCKEN, CONSTANTYN, born at Antwerp, baptized April 5, 1661, died there, Jan. 12, 1717. Battle painter, grandson of Frans Francken, the younger; went to France at an early age, worked for years in Paris and Versailles, and after his return to Antwerp entered the guild in 1695. Works: Battle of Eekeren, Retreat of General Marten van Rossum, City Hall, Antwerp.—Van den Branden, 978.
FRANCKEN, FRANS, the elder, born at
Hérenthals about 1540, died in Antwerp,
Oct. 6, 1616. Flemish school; history painter,
brother of Ambrosius the elder; pupil of
Frans Floris; obtained the citizenship of
Antwerp in 1567, and in the same year was
admitted as free master to the guild of St.
Luke, of which in 1588-89 he was the dean.
Works: Eteocles and Polynices, Museum,
Antwerp; Triptych, with Jesus among Doctors
(1587), Cathedral, ib.; Burial of Christ,
Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalen, St. Jacob's
Church, ib.; Destruction of Pharaoh's
Army, Blenheim, England; History of Esther,
Louvre; Flight into Egypt, Christ led
to Golgotha (1597), An Allegory, Creation
of Eve, Creation of Animals (landscape of
last two by J. Brueghel), Dresden Gallery;
Banquet with Music, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Curiosity Shop, Assembly of Ladies
and Gentlemen, Ecce Homo, Vienna Museum.—Biog.
nat. de Belgique, vii. 242;
Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 166; Michiels,
vi. 315; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 74; Van
den Branden, 342.
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FRANCKEN, FRANS, the younger, called
Don Francisco,
born in Antwerp,
May 6,
1581, died
there, May 6,
1642. Flemish
school; history,
landscape, and
interior painter,
son and pupil of
Frans Francken,
the elder; went at an early age to Italy, and
studied after the old masters in Venice, where
he is said to have acquired his surname.
Master of the guild at Antwerp in 1605, dean
in 1615. Painted the foreground figures in
pictures of Velvet Brueghel, Neefs the elder,
and Josse de Momper. His various modes
of signature have caused the greatest difficulties
in attributing certain works to him
or to his father, but it seems now sufficiently
certain that in his father's lifetime he signed
"den jon. F. F.," after the death of the elder
Frans (1616) signed his name without addition,
occasionally prefixed "Do., D^s." (Don,
Dominus?), but also still "Den jon.," and
after 1630, "D., Do.," or "D'ouden" (the
elder), as then his son, Frans III., may have
begun to work independently. He is the
most famous of this numerous family of ar-
