Frans Vervloet was a Belgian painter and printmaker. In 1809 he began studying at the Akademie voor Schone Kunsten in Mechelen, where he was also taught by his brother J. J. Vervloet (1790-1869), a genre painter and portraitist. During this early period, he produced both genre works and copies of old masters (including Peter Paul Rubens), although he concentrated mainly on architectural painting, such as the "Installation of Archbishop François Antoine de Méan in Mechelen".

Following the great success of this painting, from 1817 onwards he devoted himself to painting church interiors. In 1822 he was awarded a scholarship to study in Italy, where he became more interested in landscape painting and where he sp...