Frans Luyckx (before 17 April 1604 – 1668)

• Frans Luyckx was a Flemish painter.
• His father, Adam Luycx, was a silk cloth merchant and his mother was Johanna de Rasieres.
• In 1618, he became a pupil in the workshop of Remakel Sina.
• He was admitted as a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1620. 

• He then joined the workshop of the Antwerp master Peter Paul Rubens.

• In 1635, Luycx was in Rome.

• From the beginning of 1638 he became the court painter of the newly appointed emperor Ferdinand III.

• He was paid a handsome salary and took up residence in Vienna. 

• Luycx also had contacts with the court of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth monarch, Władysław IV Vasa starting from 1637, as is confirmed in accounts preserved in Stockholm.

• It is believed that he was ennobled, together with his two brothers, around 1642. Luycx was referred to as 'von Luxenstein' from that time onwards.

• Around 1643, he is recorded as having pupils or assistants in his workshop.

• In the period 1648–1650 Luycx likely travelled to the courts of the Electors to paint their portraits. 

• After the death of Emperor Ferdinand III, Luyckx was confirmed in his status as court painter.

• Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria who had returned to Austria after serving as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1647 to 1656, became his patron.

• The artist in his residence in Vienna died on 1 May 1668.

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