DOI Kapitel:
Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61295#0301
FLEMAEL — FLORIS.
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ployed, and gained a good reputation in Paris. The Chancellor
Seguier employed him at Versailles, and he painted in the Carmelite
and Augustin churches. He went to Liege, but was invited again
to Paris, where he was employed in the Tuileries. He was made a
professor in the Royal Acad, and every inducement was offered him
to remain in France. But he. returned to his beloved Liege, and was
employed in embellishing its churches. His works show the influence
of the French school. He loved to make the foreground figures
especially fine, and finished them with great care, but his color was
feeble, and there is little feeling in his works. One of his pictures,
representing “ Pelopidas arming against the Lacedaemonians,” is in
the Dresden Gall.
Flinck, G-ovaert, born in Cleves (1615-1660). He was, after
Eckhout, the scholar, most like their great master, Rembrandt. His
chief occupation was portrait painting, but he succeeded well in genre
subjects, and sometimes painted historical pictures. He was also a
successful imitator of Murillo. He settled in Amsterdam, and re-
ceived the freedom of the city in 1652. He made a fine collection of
drawings and engravings from the best masters, and casts from an-
tique sculpture. It was sold for about 12,000 florins. In the new
Hotel de Ville of Amsterdam is his picture of the “ Regents,” dated
1642; in the Amsterdam Gall., his picture of the “ Archers ” is re-
markable for its fine portraits; in the same Gall, is “ Isaac blessing
Jacob,” one of his few historical pictures; in the Berlin Mus., the
“ Expulsion of Hagar; ” and in the Munich Gall., a genre picture of
the “ Guard Room.” At the time of his death, he had finished the
sketches for twelve large pictures, which the Burgomasters of Am-
sterdam had commissioned him to paint.
Florigerio, Sebastiano, born at Udine. Flourished about 1533.
Pupil of Gio. Bellini, and an imitator of Giorgione. His frescoes at
Udine have perished, but some of his oil-pictures remain in the
churches there, and two Madonnas with Saints, in the Venice Acad.,
are his works. His color was pale and cold, but his figures are well
drawn, and the composition is arranged after the antique manner.
Floris, Frans, born at Antwerp, real name Frans de Vriendt
(1520-1570). Pupil of Lambert Lombard. He opened a school in
Antwerp, which was much frequented. He had great facility of exe-
cution and power of invention, but there is much want of grace and
sentiment in his pictures, and he knew too little of drawing to be a fine
painter. His life was very wild, and his intemperate habits prevented
his attaining the fame and fortune which the patronage and favor
of his friends placed before him. His chef-cP oeuvre is in the Ant-
werp Mus., and represents the “ Fall of the Angels.” Other works
of his are in the same place, and a picture of Vulcan showing Venus
and Mars, whom he has in a net, to the Gods, is in the Berlin Mus.
While this displays the mastery of his hand, it is very tasteless; it is
dated 1547.
279
ployed, and gained a good reputation in Paris. The Chancellor
Seguier employed him at Versailles, and he painted in the Carmelite
and Augustin churches. He went to Liege, but was invited again
to Paris, where he was employed in the Tuileries. He was made a
professor in the Royal Acad, and every inducement was offered him
to remain in France. But he. returned to his beloved Liege, and was
employed in embellishing its churches. His works show the influence
of the French school. He loved to make the foreground figures
especially fine, and finished them with great care, but his color was
feeble, and there is little feeling in his works. One of his pictures,
representing “ Pelopidas arming against the Lacedaemonians,” is in
the Dresden Gall.
Flinck, G-ovaert, born in Cleves (1615-1660). He was, after
Eckhout, the scholar, most like their great master, Rembrandt. His
chief occupation was portrait painting, but he succeeded well in genre
subjects, and sometimes painted historical pictures. He was also a
successful imitator of Murillo. He settled in Amsterdam, and re-
ceived the freedom of the city in 1652. He made a fine collection of
drawings and engravings from the best masters, and casts from an-
tique sculpture. It was sold for about 12,000 florins. In the new
Hotel de Ville of Amsterdam is his picture of the “ Regents,” dated
1642; in the Amsterdam Gall., his picture of the “ Archers ” is re-
markable for its fine portraits; in the same Gall, is “ Isaac blessing
Jacob,” one of his few historical pictures; in the Berlin Mus., the
“ Expulsion of Hagar; ” and in the Munich Gall., a genre picture of
the “ Guard Room.” At the time of his death, he had finished the
sketches for twelve large pictures, which the Burgomasters of Am-
sterdam had commissioned him to paint.
Florigerio, Sebastiano, born at Udine. Flourished about 1533.
Pupil of Gio. Bellini, and an imitator of Giorgione. His frescoes at
Udine have perished, but some of his oil-pictures remain in the
churches there, and two Madonnas with Saints, in the Venice Acad.,
are his works. His color was pale and cold, but his figures are well
drawn, and the composition is arranged after the antique manner.
Floris, Frans, born at Antwerp, real name Frans de Vriendt
(1520-1570). Pupil of Lambert Lombard. He opened a school in
Antwerp, which was much frequented. He had great facility of exe-
cution and power of invention, but there is much want of grace and
sentiment in his pictures, and he knew too little of drawing to be a fine
painter. His life was very wild, and his intemperate habits prevented
his attaining the fame and fortune which the patronage and favor
of his friends placed before him. His chef-cP oeuvre is in the Ant-
werp Mus., and represents the “ Fall of the Angels.” Other works
of his are in the same place, and a picture of Vulcan showing Venus
and Mars, whom he has in a net, to the Gods, is in the Berlin Mus.
While this displays the mastery of his hand, it is very tasteless; it is
dated 1547.