Artist
Frans Francken the Younger
Flemish, 1581–1642
Frans Francken the Younger was a Flemish Flemish Baroque painting painter. 82 works are cataloged here, principally at Bavarian State Painting Collections, most of them oil paintings. Frans Francken the Younger was born in Antwerp.
Frans Francken the Younger (1581, Antwerp – 6 May 1642, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter and the best-known and most prolific member of the large Francken family of artists. He painted large altarpieces for churches as well as smaller historical, mythological and allegorical scenes. His depictions of collectors' cabinets established a popular new genre of art in the era.
Francken often collaborated with other artists, adding figures and narrative elements to scenes created by specialists in landscape, architectural and floral still life paintings.
Works by Frans Francken the Younger
Garland of Flowers with Adoration of the Shepherds
Allegory on the Christ child as the lamb of God
A Collection
The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite
Chamber of Art and Curiosities
The Prodigal Son
The Collection of paintings of Sebastiaan Leerse
Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels
The parable of the prodigal son
Collections represented
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