himself after Rubens and Van Dyck; master of the guild in 1611. His portrait by Van Dyck is in the Amsterdam Museum. Works: Christ among the Doctors, Descent of the Holy Ghost, Bruges Museum. Copies after Rubens: Visitation of Mary, Assumption, Adoration of the Shepherds, ib.; Decapitation of St. John, Brussels Museum; Christ and Magdalen (in Landscape by Velvet Brueghel), Rotterdam Museum; Heads of Seven Apostles (attributed), Dresden Museum.—Van den Branden, 339, 622; Kramm, ii. 508; Fétis, Cat. du Mus. Royal, 322.
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FRANCKEN, HIERONYMUS (Jeroom),
the elder, born at
Hérenthals in 1542,
died in Paris (?),
May 1, 1610. Flemish
school; history
and portrait painter,
brother of Frans and
Ambrosius the elder;
pupil of Frans Floris,
went to France, became
portrait painter
to Henry III., and, continuing in favour
at court under Henry IV. and Louis XIII.,
was called the painter of kings. Visited
Italy either before or after having first settled
in Paris. In 1590 he retired to Antwerp,
where he attracted all the pupils of
his old master, Floris, lately deceased, but
soon returned to Paris. Works: Abdication
of Charles V., National Museum, Amsterdam;
Charles V. taking Orders, Lille Museum;
Decapitation of St. John the Baptist
(1600), Dresden Gallery; Assembly of
the Sea-Gods, Stockholm Museum.—Biog.
nat. de Belgique, vii. 244; Jal., 612; Michiels,
v. 317; vi. 312; Van den Branden,
340.
FRANCKEN, HIERONYMUS, the
younger, born in Antwerp, baptized Sept.
12, 1578, died there, March 17, 1623. Flemish
school, son of Frans the elder; historical
figure painter, pupil of Ambrosius
Francken; master of the guild in 1607.
Works: Horatius Cocles at the Sublician
Bridge (1620), Antwerp Museum; Esther
before Ahasuerus.
FRANCKEN, JOHANNES, born in Antwerp
about 1500 (?). Flemish school; history
and landscape painter, supposed pupil
of Jacob van Utrecht; seems to have left
Antwerp at an early period, and in 1550 settled
in Naples, where he was called Franco,
and where Wenceslaus Cobergher lived with
him, and married his daughter. Work:
Adoration of the Magi (1556), Franciscan
Church, Naples.—Biog. nat. de Belgique,
vii. 253; Immerzeel, i. 247.
FRANCKEN, P. H. (H. P.?), flourished
about the middle of 17th century. Flemish
school; history painter, recalling in his works
the school of Rubens. Works: St. Francis
of Assisi, The Poisoned Cup, St. Louis as a
Crusader, St. Anthony of Padua (1652), Antwerp
Museum.—Cat. du Musée d'Anvers
(1874), 171.
FRANCKEN, SEBASTIAAN. See
Vrancx.
FRANCO, BOLOGNESE, end of 13th
and early part of 14th century. Bolognese
school; mentioned by Dante as a miniaturist
in connection with Oderisio (Purgatory,
cxi. 79). Malvasia says that he founded in
Bologna the school out of which arose Vitale,
Lorenzo, Simone, Jacopo, and Cristofano,
but there are no authentic records of
him. Perhaps a pupil of Oderigi d'Agobbio,
when that painter was working at Bologna
in 1268. A Madonna Enthroned, in
the collection of Prince Ercolani, Bologna,
bears his name and the date 1312. It has
been repainted, but it seems a picture of
the 14th century with some of the affected
grace of movement peculiar to the artists of
Gubbio and Fabriano.—C. & C., Italy, ii.
206; Siret, 333; Cibo, Scuola Umbra, 12;
Malvasia, Felsina Pittrice, i. 25.
FRANCO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, born
at Udine in 1510, died in Venice in 1580.
Umbrian school; family name Semolei, according
to Zanetti. Went early to Rome
and studied works of Michelangelo; became
a very able designer, but was less success-
