Franciscus gysbrechts biography of martin
Franciscus gysbrechts biography of martin
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Franciscus Gijsbrechts
Flemish Renaissance Painter
Franciscus Gijsbrechts (1649, Antwerp – after 1677), was a Flemish painter of still lifes specialised in vanitas still lifes and trompe-l'œil paintings.
He worked in the second half of the seventeenth century in the Spanish Netherlands, Denmark and the Dutch Republic. Like his father, he painted trompe-l'œil still lifes, a still life genre that uses illusionistic means to create the appearance that the painted, two-dimensional composition is actually a three-dimensional, real object.[1]
Life
He was the son of Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts and Anna Moons.
He was baptised on 25 February 1649 in the parish of St James in Antwerp.[1] His father was a still-life painter and probably also his teacher.[2]
It is possible that in 1672 he was an assistant to his father at the Danish court in Copenhagen.
These connections to the court are likely as a work dated 1672 was already in the Danish collec