Discover painter, court painter, miniaturist painter Frans Luyckx

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: Leux, Frans
Lux, Frans
Luex, Frans
Luycks, Frans
Luycx, Frans
Luickx, Fransoeis
Leuyx von Luxenstein, Frans
Leyx von Luxenstein, Frans

Qualifications: painter, court painter, miniaturist painter

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish

Born: Antwerp (city) 1604-04/1604-04-17
baptized on 17 April 1604

Deceased: Vienna (city) 1668-05-01

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Adam Luyckx and Joanna de Rasieres. Married (no place, no date) Leonora Clauwens (before 1647)

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1 hit in RKDlibrary as subject

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Antwerpen (stad) 1617-09 - 1634
apprentice in the Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp between September 1617 and September 1618; master in 1620 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961)
Rome 1634 - 1635
mentioned 1634 as living at 'Corso, mano destra', together with Giovanni Bandol (= Jan van Dul) and Pietro Maria, a servant
Wenen (stad) 1638 - 1652
In the will of his sister-in-law Elizabeth Clauwens (12 October 1647) he is mentioned as '....constschilder van syne keijserlycke majesteyt woonende te Weenen in Oostenrijck' [painter of his Imperial Majesty living in Vienna in Austria] (Duverger vol.5); On 1 January 1638 he became court painter of Emperor Ferdinand II in Vienna with an annual salary of 600 guilders (Saur 2015); also after him court painter of Emperor Leopold I.
Antwerpen (stad) 1652
Wenen (stad) 1653 - 1668

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Quina, Remacules
Rubens, Peter Paul
said to have been a pupil of Rubens

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: history (genre), portrait

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 1 hit in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 2 (1719), p. 170-171 (as: Luix)
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol.1, p. 542, 560
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 11 (1865), p. 379 (as: Frans Leux)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 23 (1929), p. 487-488
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 356
Hoogewerff 1942 , p. 100
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 10 [1953], p. 56
Hoogewerff 1952 , p. 75, 128 note 64, 139
Bodart 1970 , vol. 1, p. 192
Witt Checklist 1978
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 5 (1991), p. 401, no. 1481
Saur 1992- , vol 86 (2015), p. 44 (as: Luyckx, Frans)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

E. Ebenstein, 'Der Hofmaler Franz Luycx. Ein beitrag zur Geschichte der Malerei am österreichischen Hof', Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses 26/I (1906-1907), p. 183-254
A. Hajdecki, 'Die Niederländer in Wien', Oud-Holland 23 (1905), p. 1-26, 108-128, 25 (1907), p. 9-26, esp. 23 (1905), p. 9-16
E. Duverger, ‘Le commerce d’art entre la Flandre et l’Europe centrale au XVIIe siècle. Notes et remarques’, in: G. Rósza (ed.) Évolution Générale et Dévelopements régionaux en Histoire de l 'Art (Actes du XXIIè Gongrès International d'Historie de l'Art, Budapest 1969), 3 vols. (1972), vol.2, p. 157-181, esp. p. 169
H. Haupt, 'Archivalien zur Kulturgeschichte des Wiener Hofer. 1. Teil: Kaiser Ferdinand III: die Jahre 1646-1656', Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 75 (1979), p. I-CXX, passim
H. Haupt, 'Archivalien zur Kulturgeschichte des Wiener Hofes : III. Teil: Kaiser Leopold I.; die Jahre 1661-1670', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 79 (1983), p. 133-CXIX, esp. p. XIV-XV
G. Galavics, 'Niederländer in Wien - Auftraggeber aus Ungarn. Ein unbekanntes Modello für ein Altarbild des Rubens-Schüler Jan Thomas (1669)', Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 55/56 (2006-2007), p. 209-223

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Creation date: 1992-01-17; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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