Hieronymus Francken was a Flemish Baroque painter and well known member of the famous Francken

Francken

In the Francken family of Antwerp in the 16th and 17th centuries were 11 painters. Many bore the same Christian name in succession. Hence there is confusion in the classification of paintings not differing widely in style or execution...

 family of Antwerp artists.

Biography

According to the RKD he was the son of Elisabeth Mertens and Frans Francken I

Frans Francken I

Frans Francken , was a Flemish Baroque painter and an important member of the Francken family of artists.-Biography:...

, who was his first teacher. He was entered into the books (liggeren) of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1607 as a pupil of his uncle Ambrosius. He influenced the painter Jacob van Hulsdonck

Jacob van Hulsdonck

Jan, or Jacob van Hulsdonck , was a Flemish Baroque still life painter.-Biography:According to the RKD he was a fruit and flower still life painter influenced by Osias Beert and Hieronymous Francken II. He joined the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1608 and became the father of the painter Gillis van...

. In 1620 he produced a curious picture of Horatius Cocles defending the Sublician Bridge

Pons Sublicius

The earliest known bridge of ancient Rome, Italy, the Pons Sublicius, spanned the Tiber River near the Forum Boarium downstream from the Tiber Island, near the foot of the Aventine Hill. According to tradition, its construction was ordered by Ancus Martius around 642 BC, but this date is...

which still hangs in the Antwerp museum.