page_title: Peter Franchoys
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Franchoys / Work
context_page_description: Peter, Peeter or Pieter Franchoys or Francois was a Flemish Baroque painter, who is mainly known for his portraits and religious paintings.
context_section_description: Peter Franchoys is now mainly known as a painter of portraits and religious subjects. His portraits are stylistically related to his brother’s portraits who represented his sitters with a form of calculated informality. This style was influenced by Anthony van Dyck as well as by French models of portrait painting. The French influence is seen in the more static approach as opposed to the dynamic quality of Flemish Baroque portrait paintings.
  Among his religious works is the altarpiece representing Calvary in the St. Gummarus church in Lier, Belgium.
  The description by the early Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken of Peter Franchoys as someone who 'liked to paint landscapes with small figures' does not appear to fit the currently known oeuvre of Franchoys, which consists primarily of portraits and some religious works.
  Peter Franchoys was also active as an etcher.  The Rijksmuseum has an etching by Franchoys representing Christ and St John the Baptist as Children. He also made an etching depicting St Peter chasing a French soldier from Louvain.
caption: Portrait of a young man
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