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European city landscape, street landsacpe, construction, frontstore, building and architecture. 176
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Related Paintings of unknow artist :. | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 407 | Psalter of St Margaret of the House | The Pantheon | European city landscape, street landsacpe, construction, frontstore, building and architecture. 248 | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 240 | Related Artists: Peter FranchoysPeter, Peeter or Pieter Franchoys or Francois (1606-1654) was a Flemish Baroque painter from Mechelen, who painted an altarpiece of Calvary influenced by Anthony van Dyck for the St. Gummarus church in Lier, Belgium.
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He first learned to paint from his father, Lucas Franchoys the Elder, and later from Gerard Seghers in Antwerp . In 1631 he traveled in France and is recorded being in Fontainebleau. In 1646 he became a member of the Mechelen schutterij and in 1649 he became a master in the Guild of St. Luke there.
According to Houbraken he was known for his landscapes with small figures, that attracted the admiration of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, for whom he painted many years.
His work is memorialized in the Gulden Cabinet of the poet from Lier, Cornelis de Bie.
John Edward Brett1830-1902
English Sally James FarnhamAmerican, 1876-1943
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