Dutch painter and art dealer

Rotterdam 1620/1623 – 1691 Rotterdam

 

Painter of history scenes, portraits and Italianate landscapes.

 

Pupil of his father, Adriaen, of whom no paintings are known. Adriaen originally came from Flanders, from Antwerp.

François’ mother was the daughter of another painter, Willem Viruly I, whose father was also born in Antwerp.

 

François never got married. He seems to have been rather well-off.

He lived most part of his life in Rotterdam, but stayed also several times in Zeeland: he is documented in April 1643 in Middelburg, in 1653 in Vlissingen, in 1661 he even enrolled in the Painter’s Guild of Middelburg and in 1667 in that of Veere.