Jan van Mieris

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Jan van Mieris, Portrait of a Smoking Artist, 1688, Kunsthalle Hamburg

Jan van Mieris (born June 17, 1660 in Leiden , † March 17, 1690 in Rome ) was a Dutch genre and portrait painter of the Baroque .

Life

He was a student of his father Frans van Mieris the Elder. Ä. and painted in his style and that of his brother Willem van Mieris , with whom he is often confused.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Entry “Mieris, Jan van” In: Reclams Künstlerlexikon. 2nd edition, Philipp Reclam jun. GmbH & Co., Stuttgart 1995; P. 473. ISBN 3-15-010412-2 .

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