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Luyckx [Leux; Luycks; von Luxenstein], Frans
(b Antwerp, bapt 17 April 1604; d Vienna, 1 May 1668). Flemish painter. He entered the Antwerp Guild of St Luke as a master in 1620 and was probably active in Rubens’s workshop. In 1635 Luyckx visited Rome, and in 1638 he became court painter to Emperor Ferdinand III in Prague. He was much favoured by the Emperor, who ennobled him. In 1652 Luyckx made a short trip to the Netherlands before returning to Prague. Emperor Ferdinand died in 1657, but his successor, Leopold I, maintained Luyckx as a court painter, and from 1657 Luyckx worked in Vienna. His juvenilia, inevitably under Rubens’s influence, consist mainly of historical and New Testament themes. However, he abandoned these subjects soon after his first appointment as court painter and devoted himself to portraits of the imperial family, courtiers, generals and other important figures. Often repetitive in composition, his Viennese court style betrays Italian and Spanish influences. The majority of his oeuvre is divided among the museums in Prague (N.G., Sternberk Pal.), Vienna (Ksthist. Mus.) and Stockholm (Nmus.).
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