Willem van Mieris

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The Greengrocer by Willem van Mieris (1731) Oil on panel, 40 × 34 cm. Wallace Collection , London.
Lady with a parrot

Willem van Mieris (born June 3, 1662 in Leiden ; † January 26, 1747 in Leiden ) was a Dutch genre , history and portrait painter who worked in the tradition of the Leiden Fine Painting School founded by Gerard Dou . His father was the famous Dou student Frans van Mieris the elder , Jan van Mieris was his elder brother and Frans van Mieris the younger his son.

Life

After his apprenticeship in his father's studio, Willem van Mieris became a member of the Leiden Guild of Saint Luke in 1683 . He served as guild captain in 1697 , 1698 , 1704 and 1708 . In 1699 he was the guild chairman. Together with Jacob van Toorenvliet and Carel de Moor , he founded a drawing academy (the Leidse Tekenacademie ) in Leiden around 1694 , which lasted until 1736 . It is believed that Willem van Mieris became increasingly blind around this time.

Selected works

  • The found daughter (after Jacob Cats: Het Spaens heydinnetje ), 1684 ( Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig)
  • Odysseus and Circe , 1685 (Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden)
  • Lady with a Parrot , 1685 ( Caputh Castle )
  • The death of Cleopatra , 1694
  • Portrait of a widow
  • Daniel von Meinertshagen and his wife Amalie van Stockum as Rinaldo and Armida , 1715, ( Grunewald Hunting Lodge , Berlin)

literature

Web links

Commons : Willem van Mieris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Willem van Mieris in the catalog of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden (1887)  - sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Mieris, Willem van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch genre, history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1747
Place of death Suffer