Frans Pourbus (II) (Antwerp, autumn 1569 - Paris, buried February 19, 1622), also called Frans Pourbus the Younger, was a Brabant painter and son of Frans Pourbus (I). Pourbus' oeuvre remained virtually unstudied for a long time. Art-historical attention always went to his ancestors or to his Antwerp contemporary Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Nevertheless, the work of this artist is an important link in the development of Dutch portraiture: he synthesized the developments of the 16th century and formed a transition from the Renaissance to the 17th century Baroque.
