Flemish painter, active in Antwerp. He specialized in architectural church interiors. He is best known for his interior of the Antwerp church of St. Walburgis (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp) which records the original placement along with the frame and predella paintings of Peter Paul Rubens’s Raising of the Cross.
This painting records the original placement along with the frame and predella paintings of Peter Paul Rubens’s Raising of the Cross. The church was demolished in 1817.
The Jesuit church in Antwerp, first dedicated to St Ignatius, and later to St Charles Borromeo, was first designed by Father Franciscus Aguilonius (1566-1617), rector of the Antwerp monastery. After his death Jacques Francart continued the work in an Italian and classical style of architecture.
