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 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.

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