• Was a Flemish painter, court architect, and an outstanding copper plate engraver.
• Franquart was born in Antwerp or Brussels.
• In 1620, he designed the Temple of the Augustinians, which stood on the present-day Place de Brouckère/De Brouckèreplein in central Brussels.
• Franquart was also famous for his outstanding illustrations that show the 1621 funeral procession of Albrecht Habsburg (table no. 61).
• The work was published in Brussels but being seen more as one of the eminent works of the golden age of the Antwerp copperplate engraving.
• The majority of the text was written by the Belgian writer and historian Erycius Puteanus, published earlier in a book titled Phoenix Principum...
• The outstanding engravings of the book present the 1621 funeral procession by means of 64 tables.
• There are to be seen more than 700 different persons with the banner of their countries.
• The engraving of the funeral procession is almost 1 m long.
• Franquart taught his niece Anna Francisca de Bruyns to paint.
• He died and was buried in Brussels.
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After Jacques Francquart, Cornelis Galle I, Plate 45 Men with heraldic flags and horses from the House of Brabant and Burgundy
After Jacques Francquart, Cornelis Galle I, Plate 45 Men with heraldic flags and horses from the House of Brabant and Burgundy
After Jacques Francquart, Cornelis Galle I, Plate 45 Men with heraldic flags and horses from the House of Brabant and Burgundy
