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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 3 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FRANCK . The name of Franck has been given indiscriminately but improperly to painters of the school of See also:

Antwerp who belong to the families of See also:

FRANCKEN

Francken (q.v.) and Vrancx (q.v.) . One artist truly entitled to be called Franck is See also:

GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

Gabriel, who entered the gild of Antwerp in 16o5, became its See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president in 1636 and died in 1639 . But his See also:

WORKS

works cannot now be traced .

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