Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, i. 89, 226; Dohme, 1ii.; Gautier, Guide au Louvre, 144; Gower, Figure Painters, 73; Immerzeel, ii. 226; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 407; Kramm, iv. 1124; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 334; Quellenschriften, xiv. 299; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xi. (Mittheilungen, iv. 17); xvii. 155.
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MIERIS, FRANS VAN, the younger, born
in Leyden, Dec. 24, 1689, died there, Oct.
22, 1763. Dutch school; genre and portrait
painter, son and pupil of Willem van
Mieris, but greatly inferior to his father in
drawing, colouring, and finish. He was
a distinguished antiquary, and published
works of merit on numismatics and history.
Works: Hermit in Prayer (1721), Grocer's
Shop (1715), Pharmacy (1714), Amsterdam
Museum; Regents' Piece (1730), Male Portrait,
Leyden Museum; Fishmonger (1747),
Rotterdam Museum; Baker and Woman,
Pedlar and Boy, Cassel Gallery; Portrait
of his Father (1737), Copenhagen Gallery;
Scholar (1717), Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Woman and Man conversing by a Stall with
Eatables (1738), Gotha Museum; Vertumnus
and Pomona (1716), Schwerin Gallery;
A Hermit, Christiania Gallery; The Breakfast,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel,
ii. 228; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 544;
Kramm, iv. 1126.
MIERIS, JAN VAN, born at Leyden in
1660, died at Rome in 1690. Genre and
portrait painter, son and pupil of Frans, the
elder, then of Lairesse; went via Germany
to Florence and Rome. As he died when
thirty, his pictures are very rare. Works:
Assembly of Ladies and Gentlemen with
Lute-Player, Gotha Museum; Surgeon dressing
Wound, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xxi. 717.
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MIERIS, WILLEM VAN, born in Leyden
in 1662, died there, Jan. 27, 1747. Dutch
school; genre and mythology painter, son
and pupil of Frans, the elder, whom in his
early genre pictures he approached in merit,
though always inferior in drawing and impasto.
In his
later time he
painted mythological
subjects
and landscapes,
which are prosaic
and totally deficient
in grace.
Painted small
easel pictures, especially
shop interiors,
also historical and mythological
subjects. Modelled statuettes and vases
adorned with bas-reliefs. Died blind at
the age of 85. Works: Female Poultry-Dealer
(1713), National Gallery, London;
Woman and Violin-Player, Bridgewater Gallery,
ib.; Two Girls, Young Man giving
Grapes to a Woman, David and Bathsheba,
Mr. Hope, ib.; Old Woman and a Girl, Mr.
Baring, ib.; Raree-Show, Mr. Heusch, ib.;
Three Children, Poultry-Dealer, The Cook,
Louvre; Fishmonger (1717), Antwerp Museum;
Susanna and the Judges, Brussels
Museum; Poultry Dealer (1733), Arcadian
Landscape (1722), Lady and Gentleman,
Amsterdam Museum; Grocer's Shop (1717),
Hague Museum; Fishmonger with Glass
of Beer, Basle Museum; Joseph and Potiphar's
Wife, Carlsruhe Gallery; Old Woman
in Grocer's Shop, Cassel Gallery; Ceres
(1719), Copenhagen Gallery; Venus endeavoring
to dissuade Adonis from Hunting,
Darmstadt Museum; Itinerant Musician
embraced by Girl (1694), Game Dealer,
Woman filling Glass for a Man (1699), Man
blowing a Trumpet (1700), Cephalus and
Procris (1702), Venus Asleep (1703), Ariadne
and Bacchus (1704), Fortune-Teller,
Girl bringing Drink to a Man (1706), Preciosa
recognized by her Mother (1709), Venus
and Paris (1717), Company of Apes
(1719), Old Cook (1729), Dresden Gallery;
Male and Female Portrait, Ferdinandeum,
Innsbruck; Interior with Lady and Fishmonger
(1719), Old Pinakothek, Munich;
