Discover tapestry weaver, court artist François Spiering

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: Spierincx, François
Spierincx, Frans
Spiering, Frans
Spiering, Franchoys
Spierinck, Franchoys
Spierinck, Frans
Spierings, Franciscus
Spierinx, François Aertsz.
Spirincx, Franchoys
Spiringius, Franciscus
mostly signed his tapestries in Latin: Franciscus Spiringius

Qualifications: tapestry weaver, court artist
supplied tapestries not only to the Estates General,

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish, North Netherlandish

Born: Antwerp (city) 1551

Deceased: Delft (city) 1630-02-21

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Antwerp burgomaster Aert Spierinx. Married 1) in Delft in 1582 to brewer's daughter Maria Menninck, and 2), also in Delft on 13 February 1630 to Oncommera Menninxdr Duyst van Voorhout (died1653); father of Abraham, Aert, Pieter and Willem (all tapertry weavers)

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Karel II worked for more than 10 years as his employee, then setting up his own shop after a falling out. Van Mander became favourite of the Danish Court, and Spiering of the Swedish (Gustav Adolphus, Queen Christina) (Luijten et al. 1993)

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38 hits in RKDimages as artist
5 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Antwerpen (stad) 1570 - 1576
c. 1570 till 1576, when his business was badly hit by the 'Spanish Fury' (marauding Spanish mercenaries sacking Antwerp) and he left the city.
Keulen
a stay in Cologne is sometimes surmised, but not corroborated by facts (Luijten et al. 1993)
Delft (stad) 1582 - 1630
settled before 1582 in Delft; in the first 10 years no data known; in 1592 moved his business to the Convent of St. Agnes (desolved in the Reformation) (contract with the civic authorities of 24 December 1592: Briels 1984). He became a regular customer of the Estates General in The Hague, who presented his tapestries as diplomatic gifts to e.g. the Danish and Swedish courts and nobles from England, Poland and France (Luijten et al. 1993). Frans retired in 1620 and handed the shop with 40 assistants over to his son Aert (1593-1650) (Luijten et al. 1993). He worked together with Jan de Maecht from Brussels and his sons Heyndrick and Laureys. HIs favourite designs were by Karel van Mander (I). His painters of cartoons was Abraham Bonaert from Oudenaarde and Karel van Mander (II) (Briels 1984, also enumerates all his weavers, p. 57-58 note 6)

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Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Mander, Karel van (II)

Luijten et al. 1993 lists several free-lance designers, assistants, apprentices etc. for tapestry design and painting

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 5 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 6 (1862), p. 1548
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 1 (1876), p. 168 (as: Francis Spiering)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 647 (as: Franchojs Spierinck)
Göbel 1923
Van Ysselsteyn 1936 , passim
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 31 (1937), p. 373 (as: Spierincx (Spierinck, Spiering), Frans (Franchoys))
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 392, 486
Luijten et al. 1993 , p. 316-317
Hartkamp-Jonxis/Smit 2004 , p. 428-429 (biography) (as: Spiering, François)

M. Eisler, 'Die Delfter Gobelinfabrik', Oud-Holland 39 (1921), p. 188-232
A.M.L.E. Mulder-Erkelens, 'Een Hollands Scipio-tapijt 'De overgave van Carthago' anno 1609', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 31 (1980), p. 36-49
J.G.C.A. Briels, 'Zuidnederlandse goud- en zilversmeden in Noordnederland omstreeks 1576-1625. Bijdragen tot de kennis van de Zuidnederlandse immigratie, Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis bijzonderlijk van het aloude Hertogdom Brabant , 67 (1984), p. 56-
A. Desprechins de Gaesbeke, 'Une tenture d'Amadis de Gaule tissée à Delft d'après les cartons de Karel van Mander', Gentse bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis en oudheidkunde 31 (1996), p. 81-96
E. Hartkamp-Jonxis, 'Drie wandtapijten uit een reeks met voorstellingen uit Ovidius' 'Metamorfosen'', Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 19 (2009), no. 1, p. 14-18

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External links: this artist in the British Museum
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Creation date: 1999-12-07; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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