Frans Van Leemputten or Frans van Leemputten was a Belgian Realist painter who specialized in landscape paintings of the Campine and Brabantine regions in Belgium as well as scenes with villagers and animals.

Frans Van Leemputten was born in Werchter as the son of Jan Frans Van Leemputten and Maria Catharina Van Cleynenbreugel. His father was originally a farmer but moved to Brussels in 1852 to become a painting restorer as he had an interest and some practice in art. Frans and his older brother Cornelius were encouraged by their father to practice art.

In 1855 the family briefly moved to Antwerp where the young Frans attended classes at the Antwerp Academy. In 1858 the family moved back to Brussels where Frans worked mainly ...