Peeter Franchoys (1606–1654)

• Was a Flemish Baroque painter.
• He studied painting with his father, Lucas Franchoys the Elder.
• Later, according to the biographer Cornelis de Bie, with Gerard Seghers in Antwerp.
• He is recorded in Brussels, where he worked for the governor of the Southern Netherlands Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.
• In 1631 he traveled to France and is recorded in Paris and Fontainebleau.

• He returned to Mechelen in 1635.

• In 1646 he became a member of the Mechelen schutterij and in 1649 he became a master in the Guild of St. Luke there.

• Ignatius Croon was his pupil.

• His younger brother Lucas was also a painter. 

• Peter Franchoys is now mainly known as a painter of portraits and religious subjects.

• Among his religious works is the altarpiece representing Calvary in the St. Gummarus church in Lier, Belgium. 

• Peter Franchoys was also active as an etcher.

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