Frans Pourbus The Younger

Frans Pourbus the Younger comes from a distinguished Antwerp family of painters. In the workshop of his father of the same name he learned the tools of the trade to bring people expressively onto canvas. As a painter at the Brussels court, he managed to gain an international reputation before he became court painter to the Duke of Mantua in 1600 and was appointed to the French royal court nine years later. Frans Pourbus was now at the zenith of his career.