Frans Menton
Fransoys or Frans Menton (c.1550–1615) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Also recorded as François Menton
Frans Menton
Frans Menton · Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar · Public domain
- Name
- Frans Menton
- Born
- ca.1550
- Birthplace
- Haarlem
- Died
- 1615
- Place of death
- Alkmaar
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- Baroque
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- painter · etcher · draftsperson · copper engraver
- Languages
- Dutch
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Biography
Biography
The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp and Alkmaar. Work by Frans Menton is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Frans Menton • Birth Name — Frans Menton • Born — ca.1550 • Birthplace — Haarlem • Died — 1615 • Place of death — Alkmaar • Field — Painting • Movement — Baroque
Biography
Biography
Little is known of his early life, but according to Van Mander in 1604, he spoke with him about his training as a pupil of Frans Floris in his workshop in Antwerp. Apparently that is where Menton received much of his training. Van Mander based his list of Frans Floris pupils on Menton's information. Of Menton himself, Van Mander stated that he was a good portrait painter and engraver. Houbraken repeated Van Mander's comment and added that his gravestone in Alkmaar gave his death date as March 24, 1615. The Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar has two militia pieces by him on display. According to the RKD he signed his works with the monogram F.ME..
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Haarlem.
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- 1.Frans Floris in Karel van Mander's Schilderboeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- 2.Frans Menton biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- 3.Frans Menton in the RKD
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