Franz van Stampart
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Portrait of Anton III, Count of Montfort
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| Born | 12 June 1675, Antwerp |
| Died | 3 April 1750 (aged 74), Vienna |
| Nationality | Flemish |
| Known for | Portrait painting, printmaking, publishing |
Frans van Stampart (born in Antwerp 12 June 1675 – died 3 April 1750 in Vienna) was a Flemish portrait painter, printmaker and publisher. The artist established a reputation as a portraitist of European rulers, aristocrats and higher clergy. He had an international career, which brought him to the court in Vienna where he worked as court painter of the Imperial court. He is also known as the co-publisher of two publications with reproductions of the Imperial art collection in Vienna for which he also made some of the engravings.
Frans van Stampart was baptized in the St James Church in Antwerp on 16 January 1675. He was a pupil of the relative obscure Gislein van der Sijpen (or Gielein Peeter van der Sypen) with whom he started his training in 1689.
He became master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in the guild year 1693-94 and remained active in Antwerp for five more years. He painted portraits in the style of fellow Anwerp artist Pieter Thijs, a leading portrait painter in the Southern Netherlands. These appear to have pleased Emperor Leopold I who called him to Vienna and appointed him his court painter in 1698. In this role he painted portraits of the Emperor, his consort and the princes of the realm.
After the Emperor's death, he retained his court appointment under the successive emperors Joseph I and Charles VI and to Empress Maria Theresa. He also portrayed many Austrian and German nobles. Van Stampart also was a prolific engraver and collaborated with court painter and engraver Anton Joseph von Prenner on a volume of prints entitled Theatrum artis pictoriae (1728-1733). The two artists collaborated again in 1735 on another volume of prints entitled Prodromus, which represents the Imperial art collection in prints.
He remained active in Vienna where he died in 1750.
Frans van Stampart was known mainly as a portrait painter to the elite. His sitters were members of the Imperial family in Vienna and other royal families, German, Austrian and English nobles and higher clergy. His style was initially close to that of Pieter Thijs. His work can be found in museums in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans as well as in German and Austrian castles including in Drosendorf, Greillenstein, Pommersfelden and Schloss Rastatt.
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