Frans Pourbus the Younger or Frans Pourbus (II) (Antwerp, 1569 – Paris, 1622) was a Flemish painter, specialised in portrait painting. He was the third generation of a prominent family of religious and portrait painters.
Pourbus was a successful court painter for, successively, the Archdukes in Brussels, the Gonzaga Duke of Mantua (1600–1609), and then the French court. The majority of his work was royal portraits, many full-length, but he also painted some altarpieces. He painted the Brussels-based Spanish Regents of the Netherlands, the Duke of Mantua and Marie de' Medici, Queen of France.
Pourbus produced portraits that were pleasing to his patrons, but somewhat static with no dramatic situations, or landscape backgrounds. His father was an important portrait and genre painter and his grandfather Pieter Pourbus (1523 – 1584) was the leading portrait and history painter in Bruges in the second half of the 16th century.
At the end of the 16th century, he worked for Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella in Brussels. Within months of his appointment, Peter Paul Rubens arrived at the Mantuan court, but there is no evidence of hostility between the two. In 1609, Pourbus moved to Paris at the instigation of Marie de' Medici, Queen of France. It was here that he perfected his style. He worked as Marie de' Medici, Queen of France's court painter until his death.
Death
He died in Paris and was buried on 19 February 1622.The exact date of his death is unknown.
Selected works
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File:Frans Pourbus the Younger - Portrait of Eleonora de' Medici Gonzaga.jpg|Portrait of Eleonora de' Medici Gonzaga, 1600–1602
File:Portrait of King Louis XIII of France with the Sash and Badge of the Order of the Saint Esprit (by Frans Pourbus the Younger).jpg|Louis XIII, King of France (with the Sash and Badge of the Order of Saint Esprit)
File:Frans Pourbus the Younger - Group Portrait of Three Members of the Paris Council (fragment of the lost painting).jpg|Councilors of Paris
File:Margarita Gonzaga, future Duchess of Lorraine as depicted in 1606 by Frans Pourbus the Younger.jpg|Margarita Gonzaga
Frans Pourbus the Younger - Portrait of Guillaume du Vair, Magistrate of the Parliament, Keeper of the Seals of France under Louis XIII.JPG |Portrait of Guillaume du Vair, Magistrate of the Parliament, Keeper of the Seals of France under Louis XIII
File:Frans Pourbus (1569) - Anna von Österreich - 2804 - Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.jpg|Anne of Austria
File:Frans Pourbus the Younger - Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino - 89.52 - Detroit Institute of Arts.jpg|Portrait of the Italian poet Giambattista Marino
File:Frans Pourbus the Younger - Portrait of a man - Google Art Project.jpg|Portrait of a man
File:Margarita Gonzaga by Frans Pourbus the Younger (Galeria Palatina).jpg|Portrait of Margherita Gonzaga
File:Isabella van Spanje, landvoogdes der Nederlanden.jpg|Infanta Isabella
File:Frans Pourbus (II) - Marie de Médicis, Queen of France.JPG|Marie de' Medici
File:Frans Pourbus the Younger - Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata.JPG|St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata
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