Artist
Frans Pourbus, the Younger
Flemish, 1569–1622
Frans Pourbus, the Younger was a Flemish Flemish Baroque painting painter. 28 works are cataloged here, principally at Kunsthistorisches Museum, most of them oil paintings. Frans Pourbus, the Younger was born in Antwerp.
Frans Pourbus the Younger or Frans Pourbus (II) (Antwerp, 1569 – Paris, 1622) was a Flemish painter, specialised in portrait painting. He was the third generation of a prominent family of religious and portrait painters. Pourbus was a successful court painter for, successively, the Archdukes in Brussels, the Gonzaga Duke of Mantua (1600–1609), and then the French court.
The majority of his work was royal portraits, many full-length, but he also painted some altarpieces. He painted the Brussels-based Spanish Regents of the Netherlands, the Duke of Mantua and Marie de' Medici, Queen of France. Pourbus produced portraits that were pleasing to his patrons, but somewhat static with no dramatic situations, or landscape backgrounds.
He is noted for his depiction of costume, jewellery and draperies, as in his portrait of Henry IV of France (below).
Works by Frans Pourbus, the Younger
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