Frans van Mieris the Elder

1635–1681 · Dutch Republic · Baroque

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 painters, his sons Jan (1660–1690) and Willem (1662–1747) and his grandson Frans van Mieris the Younger (1689–1763) were also accomplished genre painters. Wikipedia

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“Brothel Scene”, 1659 — Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection
“Young Woman threading Pearls”, 1658 — Musée Fabre
“A Cavalier”, 1658 — Art Gallery of New South Wales
“Pictura (An Allegory of Painting)”, 1661 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“Portrait of a Man with a Cane”, 1675 — Louvre
“Woman at a harpsichord”, 1658 — Staatliches Museum Schwerin
“Portrait of a Lady with a Lapdog”, 1672 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“The interrupted song”, 1671 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
“A Boy Blowing Bubbles”, 1663 — Mauritshuis
“The Painter in his Studio”, 1656 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Wife of Jeroboam and the Prophet Ahijah”, 1671 — Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
“The Tinker”, 1658 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Officer in a Cloth Shop”, 1660 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Woman before a Mirror”, 1662 — Gemäldegalerie
“Woman feeding a Parrot”, 1663 — Bavarian State Painting Collections
“Woman with A Lapdog, Accompanied by a Maidservant”, 1680 — Leiden Collection
“A Girl selling Grapes to an old Woman”, 1655 — Royal Collection
“A gentleman and a lady”, 1678 — Rijksmuseum
“Portrait of Florentius Schuyl (1619-1669)”, 1666 — Mauritshuis
“Man and Woman with Two Dogs, known as 'Teasing the Pet'”, 1660 — Mauritshuis

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