Peter Franchoys

He studied painting with his father, Lucas Franchoys the Elder, and later, according to the early biographer Cornelis de Bie, with Gerard Seghers in Antwerp.

[1] He is subsequently recorded in Brussels, where he worked for the governor of the Southern Netherlands Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.

This style was influenced by Anthony van Dyck as well as by French models of portrait painting.

[3] The French influence is seen in the more static approach as opposed to the dynamic quality of Flemish Baroque portrait paintings.

[7] He also made an etching depicting St Peter chasing a French soldier from Louvain.