15 Works, September 14th. is Franz Vinck's day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #202

Franz Kaspar Huibrecht Vinck

Historicising Scene on Antwerp's Left Bank

Oil on canvas

23 x 72.5 cm

Private collection

Franz Vinck or Frans Vinck (14 September 1827 – 17 October 1903) was a Belgian painter known for his history paintings, genre and Orientalist scenes and portraits. He led a peripatetic life style and travelled and worked in many countries.

Franz Vinck  (1827–1903)

Lunch at the foot of the pyramids, Gizeh

Oil on canvas

Height: 71.7 cm (28.2 in); Width: 123.2 cm (48.5 in)

Private collection

Vinck sets out the principal figures in an almost theatrical way, capturing in strong chiaroscuro the fascination and reservation with which East began to meet West at the end of the 19th century, a time when tourism became a fashionable pursuit for the European and North American middle classes. More on this painting

Franz Vinck (1827-1903)

Oriental playing with her children

Oil on carton

61.0 x 49.0 cm

Castle Ahlden

The oriental scene in which the young mother is dreamily playing ball with her two small children is a good, characteristic example of 19th century Belgian fine painting. Franz Vinck, who studied with Dijckmanns and Leys, traveled to France, Italy and the Orient. 

Franz Kaspar Huibrecht Vinck

The oasis

Oil on canvas

67 x 58,5 cm 

Private collection

Vinck was born in Antwerp. As a child Vinck took drawing lessons with the painter Karel Schippers. His parents wanted him to study the violin at the Conservatory of Brussels, but instead he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten) in Antwerp. His teachers at the Academy included Edward Dujardin and Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans.

Franz Kaspar Huibrecht Vinck (Belgian, 1827-1903)

The Skaters

Oil on canvas

18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm.)

Private collection

Some of his scenes set in the past such as The Skaters do not represent important historic events but are rather in the nature of genre scenes.

Frans Vinck (1827-1903)

Patineuse/ Skater

Oil on canvas

I have no further description, at this time

In 1846 Vinck debuted at the Salon of Antwerp with his work Joseph with the wife of Putifar. The painting was subsequently exhibited in Philadelphia in the United States after which it disappeared without a trace. The artist lost as a result the money that a buyer had already offered for the work.

Franz Vinck  (1827–1903)

Medieval street scene

Oil on canvas

Height: 61 cm (24 in); Width: 81.3 cm (32 in)

Private collection

Franz Vinck (1827-1903) (atttrib.)

Arcadian river landscape with figures

Oil on canvas

46 x 55 cm, ger. 59 x 68 cm

Private collection

View of mountains and rocks, tree-lined river landscape with an angler and a pulling pawn in the foreground. Atmospherically tuned representation in the tradition of Claude-Joseph Vernet. After training at the academy and spending a long time in Paris, Vinck returned to Belgium in the 1850s, where he played a leading role in Antwerp's art life and at the Derdermonde Academy. More on this painting

Vinck subsequently traveled with a fellow painter to Paris where he copied old masters in the Louvre. After his return to Antwerp in 1852, he participated in the Prix de Rome. He made it through the pre-selection, but lost out to Ferdinand Pauwels who won first prize. His father's employer generously offered to fund Vinck so that he could accompany the winner Pauwels to Italy. After leaving for Rome, he lingered in Paris where he met Gustaf Wappers, the leading Belgian Romantic painter who had fled Antwerp after his voluntary resignation from his post as director of the Antwerp Academy.

Franz Kaspar Huibrecht VINCK, (Antwerp, 1827 – Berchem, 1903)

The two lovers

Oil on canvas

82 x 56 cm

Benoît de Lardemelle

Franz Vinck  (1827–1903)

Amorous meeting

Oil on panel

23.5 x 17

Private collection

 Franz Kaspar Huibrecht Vinck

Couple in 16th century costume on a wooden bridge in front of city chapel, c. 1877

Oil on canvas

75 x 48 cm

Private collection

Franz Vinck  (1827–1903)

At the Casement, c. between 1875 and 1899

Oil on canvas

Reading Public Museum

After nine months in Paris, Vinck finally left for Rome. Here he painted a composition called The consequences of the seven deadly sins of humanity. After he sent it to Antwerp the work was met with success and the Belgian government awarded the artist a grant.

Franz Vinck  (1827–1903)

 L'oiseleur/ Bird catcher

Oil on canvas

29.6 x 20 cm | 11.7 x 7.9 inches

I have no further description, at this time

In 1856 Vinck returned to Antwerp. The painter Florent Mols (1811-1896) invited Vinck to join him on a trip to the Middle East. The painter accepted the invitation and subsequently spent a year travelling in Egypt and Palestine. After his marriage in 1859 Vinck settled in Brussels. Here he remained until 1866. Failing to achieve success in the Belgian capital, he returned to his home town. There Vinck got included in the small circle of students and assistants of Henri Leys, at the time the leading Belgian Romantic painter who enjoyed an international reputation. Under the influence of Leys he started to concentrate more on history paintings rather than religious paintings.

Frans Kasper H. VINCK

The coronation of Marguerite de Parme

Oil on lined cardboard,

43 x 60.5 cm.

Private collection

Margaret of Parma was Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. She was a Duchess of Florence and a Duchess of Parma and Piacenza by marriage. More on Marguerite de Parme

He became a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Dendermonde. In Dendermonde Franz Courtens was one of his pupils. When in January 1886 Vincent van Gogh matriculated at the Antwerp Academy, van Gogh got into trouble with a number of his teachers including Vinck who was the instructor of the drawing class.

In Antwerp, Vinck obtained many official commissions such as that for decorations in the meeting room of the Antwerp City Hall. He also painted seven Stations of the Cross for Antwerp Cathedral. He further obtained commissions from abroad including for more Stations of the Cross for the Saint-Nicholas Church in Boulogne-sur-Mer in France and St Cuthbert's, Earls Court in London. The artist earned awards in exhibitions in Brussels, Vienna, London, Lyon and Philadelphia.

Franz Kaspar Huibrecht Vinck

VOX POPULT (THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE)

Oil on canvas

83.2 x 33.7 cm

Private collection

He died on 3 October 1903 at his home in Berchem. More on Franz Vinck 

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