Franciscus de Neve (I) (1606 in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, – 1681 or 1688 in Antwerp or Brussels) was a
Flemish painter of
history painting
History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...
s,
landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...
s and portraits.
Life
Franciscus de Neve was born in Antwerp as the son of Guilleaume de Neve, a sculptor, and Maike or Anna Vermeuren. He was baptized in the
Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp on 11 June 1606.
[Stillfried, Silvia (2008) Frans de Neve, ein flämischer Maler im 17. Jahrhundert auf Wanderschaft in Süd- und Mitteleuropa]
There is no information about his training. He possibly traveled to
Rome in the years 1620 -1630. He became a master in the Antwerp
Guild of St Luke in 1629–1630. He married Francisca Wortelmans, daughter of the painter Adriaan Wortelmans, on 13 March 1630. Nothing is known about his activities after 1640.
[Franciscus de Neve]
at the RKD
His brothers Cornelis and Simon were, respectively, a sculptor and portrait painter. He was the father of
Franciscus de Neve (II)
Franciscus de Neve (II) (also: Frans de (II) Neve, Fraciscus de Neuff, Francesco della Neve and nicknames: Bloosaerken and Blaserken) (1632, Antwerp – after 1704) was a Flemish painter and engraver. He is known for his late Baroque religi ...
, who was also a painter.
Because early biographers such as
Arnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
and
Jean-Baptiste Descamps did not realise that there were two artists named Franciscus de Neve, they confused and merged the lives of father and son and placed the father incorrectly in Rome after 1660.
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Work
Franciscus de Neve first gained a reputation in his hometown Antwerp with his history paintings. It is not clear whether he worked like most Antwerp painters of his time on some of the large commissions of the Rubens workshop in the 1630s.[ Very few works are attributed to him.
He painted portraits. A monogrammed ''Portrait of a man'' dated 1635 (with Otto Naumann Ltd) shows the influence of the contemporary Flemish masters Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.Franciscus de Neve'' I, ''Portrait of a Man]
at Otto Naumann Ltd
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1606 births
1681 deaths
Flemish Baroque painters
Flemish portrait painters
Painters from Antwerp