Frans Luyckx

Variant namesprimary name: Frans Luyckx

DatesBiographical dates: 1604 - 1668 Dead: dead 1668 Born: born 1604

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BiographyBiography: Between 1617 and 1618 Frans Luyckx was a pupil of Remakel Sina in Antwerp and from 1620 a master in the city’s Guild of St. Luke. According to Joachim Sandrart he then continued his studies in Rubens’ studio. He left Antwerp for Rome in 1635 and there he was nicknamed Rinaldo by the society of Dutch artists known as the Bentveughels. After his stay in Rome Luyckx travelled on to Vienna. There he was active as a court painter, first for Ferdinand III in Vienna and Prague up until 1657 and then for Archduke Leopold Wilhelm. He was ennobled for his services as court painter, when he assumed the name of Luycx von Luxenstein. In 1652 he made a brief journey to Antwerp. Luyckx mainly painted portraits but also produced allegorical works and history paintings. As court painter he spent some time working in Graz and Regensburg and he became a close friend of the painter and art-dealer Michiel Musson from Antwerp. His portraits are reminiscent in style of the Spanish portrait tradition that was fashionable at the time at the court of the Habsburgs. In 1647 he married Leonora Clauwens. The engravers who based their work on his portraits include Schelte Bolswert, Paulus Pontius, Frans van der Steen, Jonas Suyderhof and Elias Widemann.

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