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Dutch painter
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Male
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(The Hague)
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Biography
Franciscus Xaverius (Frans) Xavery (baptized 15 January 1740, The Hague - died after 1772), was a Dutch painter, and the son of Jan Baptist Xavery. Frans became a member of the Pictura Society at The Hague in 1768, practised for some time in that city, and later in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. He studied first under his uncle Gerard Joseph, and afterwards under Jacob de Wit. His brother Jacob was also a painter.