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In France, portraiture during the reign of Henry IV and the regency of Marie de' Medici was emtirely dominated by the Flemish artist, Frans Pourbus the Younger. He brought to France the tradition of portraiture of which Anthonis Mor van Dashorst was had been the founder and greatest exponent in the Low Countries, but which evolved since his death towards a greater degree of formalism, with more emphasis on outward show and on the depiction of rich dresses and jewels. By the turn of the century this manner had become almost universal and is to be found as much in Spanish painters such as Alonso Sanchez Coello and Pantoja de la Cruz, as in the earliest works of Rubens.
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