Frans Francken the Elder

[4] The Romanists were Netherlandish painters who had typically travelled to Italy to study the works of leading Italian High Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and their followers.

Their art assimilated these Italian influences into the Northern painting tradition.

[5][6] In 1571 he collaborated with his older brother Hieronymus on a large Adoration of the Magi triptych (Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and London, Brompton Oratory) which bears his monogram as well as that of his brother Hieronymus.

[1] His pupils included his son Frans, Gortzius Geldorp, Herman van der Mast and Jan de Wael.

His masterpiece is a triptych entitled Christ among the Scribes, which was made for the Antwerp Cathedral in 1587.