- tists; his works are distinguished for graceful
treatment, remarkable harmony, spirited touch, and capital drawing. Works: Christ Sentenced, St. John Preaching, Ecce Homo, Taking of Christ, Neptune and Amphitrite, Interior of Church in Flanders, Madrid Museum; Passion of Christ, Prodigal Son, Prince visiting Treasury of a Church, Louvre, Paris; Christ bearing the Cross, Lille Museum; Magdalen washing Christ's Feet (1628), Notre Dame, Bruges; Crœsus and Solon, Brussels Museum; Martyrdom of the Crowned (1624), Works of Mercy (1608), Miracle of St. Bruno's Grave, Interior of Art Cabinet, Antwerp Museum; Ball at Court of Albert and Isabella (1611), Parable of Prodigal Son, Adoration of Christ and Virgin (1616), National Museum, Amsterdam; Musical Company in a great Hall, Rotterdam Museum; Galatea, Adoration of the Magi, Joseph's Coffin and Destruction of the Egyptians (2), King Midas, The Royal Banquet, Brunswick Museum; Homage to Flora, Cassel Gallery; Destruction of the Egyptians (1621), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do., Mannheim Gallery; do., and Parable of Prodigal Son, Carlsruhe Gallery; the World doing Homage to Apollo (1629), Oldenburg Gallery; Apelles painting Campaspe, The Five Senses, Copenhagen Gallery; Rape of Helen, Stockholm Museum; Feeding of the Five Thousand (1634), Dessau Gallery; Neptune and Amphitrite, Belshazzar's Feast, Triumph of David, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Solomon showing his Treasures to the Prophet, Martyrdom of St. Andrew, Solomon seduced to Idolatry, Sword of Damocles, Gotha Museum; Christ on Mount of Olives, Washing of Feet, Solon and Crœsus, Temptation of St. Anthony (?), Berlin Museum; Christ bearing the Cross (1597), Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery (1606), Dresden Gallery; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Seven Works of Mercy (1630), Cavalry Skirmish (1631), An Allegory, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Christ and Nicodemus, Crucifixion (1606), Witches' Sabbath, do. (1607), Crœsus and Solon (attributed to Frans the elder), Vienna Museum; Witches' Sabbath, St. Elizabeth nursing the Sick, Berne Museum; Executions in the Netherlands by order of Duke of Alva, Musée Rath, Geneva; Seven Works of Mercy, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Dives, the Rich Man of the Gospel, Museum, New York; Passage of the Red Sea, Crucifixion (both attributed to Frans the elder), Historical Society, ib.; Artist's portrait, and three others (?), Uffizi, Florence; others in Palazzo Pitti, ib., Augsburg, and Schleissheim Galleries, in Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna, and Borghese Gallery, Rome.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, vii. 249; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 167; Meyer, Gemälde d. Köngl. Mus., 167; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 74; Rooses (Reber), 153; Van den Branden, 615.
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FRANCKEN, FRANS III., called de Rubensche Francken, born in Antwerp in 1607, died there, Aug. 21, 1667. Figure painter, son and pupil of Frans Francken, the younger, with whom he worked conjointly probably until 1639, when he became master of the guild; afterwards greatly influenced by Rubens, whence his surname. Works: St. John Baptist preaching, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Figures in Church Interior by Neefs the elder (1654), National Museum, Amsterdam; do. (1652), Schwerin Gallery; St. John's Head given to Herodias, Mr. Theodoor van Lerius, Antwerp; Scourging of Christ, Miss Verschuylen, ib.; Continence of Scipio, Mr. Dufraisne, Cambrai.—Michiels, viii. 265; Van den Branden, 618.
FRANCKEN, HANS, or JAN (Jan Baptist?),
born at Antwerp in 1581, died there,
Dec. 24, 1624. Flemish school; history
painter, nephew and pupil of Ambrosius
Francken, the elder, then studied in Paris,
and returned to Antwerp in 1608; formed
