Frans Ykens

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frans Ykens, Bouquet of Flowers in a Glass Vase

Frans Ykens (Antwerp, 1601-Brussels, 1693), also spelled IJkens, was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialised in flower still lifes.

Biography

He studied with his uncle Osias Beert and joined the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1630. In 1635 he married the flower painter Catarina Ykens-Floquet, who was the daughter of Lucas Floquet I and the sister of three painters.^[1] According to Cornelis de Bie's work on painters called Het Gulden Cabinet, he was good at painting "stilstaande dinghen" (stationary objects) such as fruit and flowers, along with Johannes Ykens.^[2]

Throughout his long career he adopted the styles of other still-life painters, including "breakfast" pieces (ontbijtjes) similar to Willem Claesz Heda, large sumptuous works indebted to Frans Snyders and Daniel Seghers-influenced devotional flower garlands. An example of the latter, the Madonna and Child surrounded by a Garland of Flowers, is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen.^[3] Peter Paul Rubens owned six of Ykens's still lifes.

Notes

↑ Catarina Ykens I in the RKD
↑ (Dutch) Franchois Eyckens ende Ian Eyckens in Cornelis de Bie's 'Het Gulden Cabinet, 1662, courtesy of Google books
↑ Musée des Beaux-Arts (French)

References

Peter Mitchell, "Ykens [Eykens; Ijkens], Frans," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [8 November 2007].
Hans Vlieghe (1998). Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700. Pelican history of art. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07038-1

Authority control	VIAF: 95740689 ULAN: 500009761

Persondata
Name	Ykens, Frans
Alternative names	IJkens
Short description	painter
Date of birth	1601
Place of birth	Antwerp
Date of death	1693
Place of death	Brussels

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.