Netherlandish painter (b. 1545, Bruges, d. 1581, Antwerpen). was a Flemish Renaissance painter. He was known primarily for his religious and portrait painting and worked mainly in Antwerp. His father was painter Pieter Pourbus and his son was painter Frans Pourbus the younger.   Related Paintings of POURBUS, Frans the Elder :. | Nature Morte A La Pomme | Detail from Monet-s Garden in Argenteuil | The Woman Taken in Adultery | llustrationer till vikor rydbergs singoalla | Portrait of Father Fyodor Dubyansky |
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FLORIS, Frans
Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1516-1570
Louis-Leopold Boilly
French Painter, 1761-1845
Richard Redgrave,RA
1804-1888 Painter, etcher and administrator, brother of (1) Samuel Redgrave. He trained initially as a clerk and draughtsman in his father's counting-house before becoming a student at the Royal Academy Schools in 1826; he also studied with John Powell. About 1830 he left his father's firm and supported himself as a drawing-master, working in watercolour before attempting to paint in oil. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1825 until failing eyesight afflicted him in 1883. He was elected ARA in 1840 and RA in 1851.