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MIERIS, FRANS VAN, the elder, born
in Leyden,
April 16, 1635,
died there,
March 12,
1681. Dutch
school; genre
painter, son of
Jan van Mieris,
goldsmith;
pupil of Abraham
Torenvliet,
then of
Gerard Dou, who called him the prince of
his scholars, and of Adriaen van den Tempel.
His preference for subjects from the
life of the upper classes shows the influence
of Metsu; and a certain humour in some
of his works, that of his friend Jan Steen.
Minuteness of execution is carried to the
highest point in his pictures, his colouring
is as clear and delicate as it is deep and
rich, and in the art of painting velvet, satin,
and other rich stuffs he is unsurpassed.
Works: Lady in Crimson Jacket, National
Gallery, London; Portrait of himself,
Bridgewater Gallery, ib.; Making out the
Reckoning, Mr. Hope, ib.; Woman reading
Music, Mr. Baring, ib.; Pedestrian with a
Flask, Mr. Holford, ib.; Portraits of himself
and of Frank Wouters, Mr. Heusch, ib.;
Lady at her Toilet, Two Ladies drinking
Tea, Interior of a Household, Male Portrait,
Louvre; Artist and his Wife, Boy blowing
Soap-Bubbles (1663), Portraits of Florentius
Schuijl (1666) and of Mieris and his wife,
Hague Museum; Lady writing Letter (1680),
Lady playing Guitar, Frailty, Jacob's Dream,
Escaped Bird (1676), Amsterdam Museum;
Rembrandt's Mother, Brunswick Gallery;
Boy giving Water to his Bird (1665), Male
Portrait, Carlsruhe Gallery; Sent on an
Errand, Officer with Bumper, Portraits (3,
one dated 1662), Gallery, Copenhagen;
Drinking the Health, Reading before School-*master,
Male Portrait (1665), Moltke Collection,
ib.; Young Peasant Woman drawing
Water, Girl and Boy with Basket and Pitcher,
Woman peeling Apple for Child, Gotha
Museum; Man Drinking (1664), Leipsic
Museum; Oyster Breakfast (1661), Soldier
in Armor, Lady with Lap-dog, Lady fainting
and Physician (1662), Lady feeding
Parrot, Lute-player (1663), Conversation
(1666), Portrait of the Artist, do. of his
Wife (1667), Boys with Drum and Fife
(1670), Trumpeter (1672), four others, Old
Pinakothek, Munich; Portraits of the Artist
and his Wife, Lady at the Piano (1658),
Candaules and Gyges, Schwerin Gallery;
Tinker Girl listening to an Old Woman
(1671), Old Man holding a Pitcher, Young
Woman with Dog, Old Woman with Flower-Pot,
Young Soldier Smoking, Old Scholar
at a Bow Window, Man in Cuirass leaning
on his Sword, Girl feeding Parrot, Cloth-Dealer,
The Artist and Wife in his Studio,
Another Studio Scene, Magdalen (1674),
Lute-player (1675), Allegory of Poetry,
Dresden Gallery; Young Lady before Mirror,
Portrait of Young Man, Berlin Museum;
The Toilet, Oyster Repast, The Artist
and Wife, Female Portrait, two others, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Feeling the Pulse
(1651), Scene in a Shop (1660), Male Portrait,
Museum, Vienna; Lady Harpist (1668),
Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Female Portrait,
Czernin Gallery, ib.; Portrait of himself,
do. of his Son Jan, Old Couple at Table,
Family of the Artist (1675), The Charletan,
The Sleeper, Old Man offering Money to
Young Woman, Uffizi, Florence; The Good
Mother, Guitar Player, Artist's portrait, Turin
Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 714;