Frans Marcus Smits is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

This 19th-century painter made formal oil portraits of local artists. Their only known work here shows Willem Jacob Herreyns seated in 1850, dressed in the stiff black coat of the day. Treat it like a time-stamped photograph—same pose, same props, same slightly formal lighting you’d expect in a guild hall. Want to see more Dutch or Belgian portraiture from this era? Tap into the 1800s portrait gallery to compare sleeves and expressions.

Works by Frans Marcus Smits

Portrait of the painter Willem Jacob Herreyns

Collections represented

Museum

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.…