JANSSENS or JANSENS, VICTOR HONORIUS (1658-1736), Flemish painter, was born at Brussels. After seven years in the studio of L. Volders, he spent four years in the house hold of the duke of Holstein. The next 11 years Janssens passed in Rome, where he studied the antique and the works of Raphael and Albani. He painted a large number of cabinet historical scenes; but, on his return to Brussels, the claims of his increasing family restricted him almost entirely to the larger and more lucrative size of picture, of which very many of the churches and palaces of the Netherlands contain examples. In 1718 Janssens
went to Vienna for three years, and was made painter to the emperor. The statement that he visited England is based upon the fact that certain fashionable interiors of the time in that country have been attributed to him. Janssens was a classicist in the style of Nicolas Poussin.