Anna Francisca de Bruyns

Anna Francisca de Bruyns

A portrait of Anne Françoise de Bruyns, aged 24, engraved by Wenceslas Hollar.
Native name Anne Françoise de Bruyns
Born 1604
Died 1675
Education Probably taught by her uncle, Jacques Francquart
Known for portraits
Spouse(s) Isaac Bullart
Patron(s) Isabella Clara Eugenia

Anna Francisca de Bruyns (1604, in Morialmé 1675, in Arras) was a Flemish Baroque painter.

Biography

She was the niece of architect Jacques Francquart, who probably taught her to paint.[1] She was painting by the age of seventeen. She was claimed to have been better than all other women painters of her time.[2]

She did some work for the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia.[3] At some point between 1622 and 1629, when the couple set up house in Arras, she had married the Rotterdam writer Isaac Bullart. They had 12 children.[3]

References

  1. A. Siret, "Bruyns (Anne Françoise de)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, 1872), 123–128.
  2. (Dutch) Anna Francisca de Bruyns Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  3. 1 2 Anna Francisca de Bruyns in the RKD database
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