Frans van Mieris the Elder
Dutch painter
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Frans van Mieris the Elder, was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan and Willem and his grandson Frans van Mieris the Younger were also accomplished genre painters. Wikipedia
Born: April 16, 1635, Leiden, Netherlands
Died: March 12, 1681 (age 45 years), Leiden, Netherlands
Periods: Dutch Golden Age and Baroque
Grandchild: Frans van Mieris the Younger
Children: Willem van Mieris and Jan van Mieris
Spouse: Cunera van der Cock (m. 1657)
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Frans van Mieris the Elder (16 April 1635 – 12 March 1681), was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Frans van Mieris, the Elder was a Dutch painter, son of Jan van Mieris and chief member of a family of Leiden painters. Mieris took service ...
Jan 18, 2024 · Frans van Mieris the Elder belonged to an illustrious family of goldsmiths and painters. After an apprenticeship with his cousin, Van Mieris ...
Van Mieris was one of the best-paid painters in the Dutch Republic. Attestations of this fact are found primarily in literary sources, and they generally touch ...
Frans Jansz. van Mieris was born in Leiden, where he was taught by Abraham van den Tempel and Gerrit Dou. He worked in Leiden, where he died.
[6] Otto Naumann, Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1681), 2 vols. (Doornspijk, 1981), 1:183–84.
(b Leiden, 16 Apr. 1635; d Leiden, 12 Mar. 1681). Dutch painter, the most distinguished member of a family of artists active in Leiden. He was one of the ...
Frans van Mieris was born in Leiden on 16 April 1635 to the Remonstrant goldsmith and diamond cutter Jan Bastiaensz van Mieris (1586–1650) and his second ...
Apr 16, 1635 - Mar 12, 1681. Frans van Mieris, the elder, was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, ...
Formerly attributed to Gerard Dou, this late work by Van Mieris may have been inspired by Jan Steen's nocturnal scene of carnival revelers in the National ...