Francisco Tons II

Ongoing Dictionary of Little-known Artists Eduardo Lamas Francisco II Tons (d. 1632) is a licier documented as active in Pastrana in Castile. He is the son of the Netherlandish licier Francisco Tons I (Brussels, (1576-Pastrana, 1633). In 1622, he arrived in Pastrana together with thirty tapestry weavers to integrate the tapestries workshop that his father has just created there under the patronage of the third duke of Pastrana (Alegre, 2003: 158). his request was clearly motivated by the p...