Frans Pourbus the Younger
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Frans Pourbus the Younger or Frans Pourbus was a Flemish painter, specialised in portrait painting. He was the third generation of a prominent family of religious and portrait painters.
Detail from Charles d'Arenberg and Anne de Croy with family, possibly a self-portrait of the painter
Portrait of Eleonora de' Medici Gonzaga, 1600–1602
Louis XIII, King of France (with the Sash and Badge of the Order of Saint Esprit)
Councilors of Paris
Henry IV of France
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Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbo
Frans Pourbus the Younger
…static with no dramatic situations, or landscape backgrounds. He is noted for his depiction of costume, jewellery and draperies, as in his portrait of Henry IV of France (below). Frans was born in Antwerp as the son of Frans the Elder (1545 – 1581) and Suzanna Floris. Both his parents came from prominent artist families…
Portrait by Frans Pourbus, 1610
Presumed portrait of Henry as a child
Portrait by Pierre Dumonstier, 1568
King Henry IV in his coronation robes, by Frans Pourbus the Younger