Background
He studied painting with his father, Lucas Franchoys the Elder, and later, according to the early biographer Cornelis de Bie, with Gerard Seghers in Antwerp.
He studied painting with his father, Lucas Franchoys the Elder, and later, according to the early biographer Cornelis de Bie, with Gerard Seghers in Antwerp.
He is subsequently recorded in Brussels, where he worked for the governor of the Southern Netherlands Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. In 1631 he traveled to France and is recorded in Paris and Fontainebleau. He returned to Mechelen in 1635.
Ignatius Croon was his pupil.
In 1646 he became a member of the Mechelen schutterij and in 1649 he became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke there.