Franciscus Gijsbrechts (1649 – after 1677)

• Was a Flemish painter of still lifes specialised in vanitas still lifes.
• He was the son of Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts and Anna Moons.
• He was baptised on 25 February 1649 in the parish of St James in Antwerp.
• It is possible that in 1672 he was an assistant to his father at the Danish court in Copenhagen.
• These connections to the court are likely as a work dated 1672 was already in the Danish collection before 1689.
• In 1676 he is recorded in Antwerp when he joined that city's Guild of St Luke as a wijnmeester, i.e. as a relative of a member.
• This entry in the guild books is the last mention of Gysbrechts.
• He worked in the second half of the seventeenth century in the Spanish Netherlands, Denmark and the Dutch Republic.

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