Artist: Frans Van Mieris The Elder (1635 - 1681)
Nationality: Dutch
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Frans van Mieris the Elder was a member of a family of goldsmiths and painters. He first apprenticed with Gerrit Dou. He painted in a similar fashion to his master’s, often on wood or copper panels. Although his paintings were successful on the market, Van Mieris spent his income on alcohol and other poor decisions. His paintings became obscure in the 1700’s.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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The Serenade Frans van Mieris the Elder (Dutch, 1635-1681)Oil on wood; Arched top, 5 3/4
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Pictura (An Allegory of Painting)
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Frans I van Mieris, Peasant Girl Wearing a Head Shawl, 17th century
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Abraham Blooteling, Francois van Mieris the Elder, (after same), 17th century
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Frans Floris the Elder, Horatiorum, 16th century
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Frans Pourbus the Elder, Abraham Grapheus, 16th century
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Frans Floris the Elder, Widerkindus, King of Saxony, 1581
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Frans van Mieris the Younger - Flora c. 1720 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Frans Floris the Elder, Allegory of Roman leading woman on horseback, 16th century
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Wilhelm Hondius, Frans Francken the Elder, (after Anthony van Dyck"s Iconographia), 16th - 17th century
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Frans Floris the Elder, Christ on the cross with Mary at the foot and the two other Marys standing at either side, 16th century
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Frans van Mieris - Dutch courtship 1675 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Dutch
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Franz van Mieris the younger, The Card Player, 1821
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Franz van Mieris the younger, Portraits de Mieris et de sa Femme (portrait of the painter and his wife)...thirty nineth plate in the book... Le MusÈe royal (Paris: P. Didot, l*ainÈ, 1818), vol. 2, 17th - 18th century
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Franz van Mieris the younger, Three sheep lying down, 17th - 18th century
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Abraham Blooteling, Portrait of J. van Mieris; The young man with the goblet, 17th century
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: attributed to Frans Orizzonte (Frans von Bloemen) Title: A Path in the Woods Date:
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Abraham Blooteling, Portrait of wife of J. van Mieris ; The girl with the purse, 17th century
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Willem van Mieris, Mythological scene Centaur and Goddess, 17th - 18th century
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Broken Eggs, 1756 Jean Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x 37 in.
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Landscape with Ceres (Allegory of Earth)
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Franz van Mieris the younger, The Muse, statue in background holding a lyra, 17th - 18th century
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Sir Anthony Van Dyck - Frans Snyders c. 1620 oil on canvas The Frick Collection Flemish
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Frans Hals (born after 1580, died 1666) Copy after Frans Hals (Dutch, 17th century)Oil on
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Interior of a Gothic Church by Day Pieter Neeffs the Elder (Flemish, active 1605-1656/61); and
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Interior of a Gothic Church at Night Pieter Neeffs the Elder (Flemish, active 1605-1656/61); and
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Frans Pourbus, the Elder, Flemish, 1545-1581 Portrait of a Woman Oil on panel 142.9 x
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Frans Masereel, Voisins (Neighbors), 1951
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Jan-Frans van Dael, Flowers Before a Window, 1789
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Adam Frans van der Meulen, Man with a Musket, circa 1667
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Frans Pourbus the Younger, Portrait of a Lady, 1591
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Frans Ertinger, The Martyrdom of St. Etienne, 1683
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Frans Ertinger, The Plague of the Serpents, 1683
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Frans Snyders, The Monkey and the Gander, circa 1613
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Frans van den Wyngaerde, Lucas Vorstermans, 17th century
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Frans Wouters, Cimon and Iphigenia, 17th century
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Frans Ertinger, Bacchanale, 17th - 18th century
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Frans Hals, Portrait of a Gentleman in White, circa 1637
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An Evening School, probably early 1660s Gerard Dou (Dutch, 1613-1675)Oil on wood; Arched top, 10
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Jan Frans van Bloemen (Orizonte), The Obelisk, 17th - 18th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (22)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints
Culled from European and North American public and private collections, this exhibition presents the largest number of Bruegel's drawings ever assembled and re...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Master Draughtsman and Humanist
Drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder were last seen in public at an exhibition in Berlin in 1975. Since then, scholarly research has considerably added to our knowledge of Bruegel's prints and drawings. One of the consequences of this research...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Senses and Sins: Painters of Everyday Life in the Seventeenth Century
The 82 paintings comprising the exhibition are by 22 artists and come from numerous museums in the Netherlands and other countries. Each and every one of these artists specialized in specific subjects, and many of them depicted lively, bucolic, re...
John Elder Gallery: Tetsuya Yamada, CHANT: Beyond the Ready-made
Never content to ride on past successes, Yamada has broken new ground with a fantastic body of cast and glazed porcelain works.  Each form is repeated and then placed in rows of varying length, and placed on simple wooden constructions.  When Duch...
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: The Printed World of Bruegel the Elder
Bruegel's gift for observation combined with his abundant imagination are reflected in prints based on his celebrated Alpine landscapes, as well as his seascapes, depictions of peasants, allegories, satires, and relevant interpretations of the...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Museum Receives Major Old Master Collection
The Clowes Collection, assembled in the 1930s, 40s and 50s by George H. A. Clowes, is one of the finest private collections of Old Master art ever formed in the Midwest, said IMA director Bret Waller. The Clowes Collection includes paintings ...
National Galery of Art: From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin
The exhibition is made possible by UBS AG. The Gallery has long been devoted to collecting and exhibiting early German and Swiss art, and this rich and varied showing o...
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative: NEW BEGINNINGS, NEW IDEAS
An opening for the exhibition will be held Wednesday 5th July, 2000 at 6.00 p.m. Mr. Herb Simms/Elder, La Perouse Aboriginal Community, Sydney will open the show at Boomalli, 191 Parramatta Road, Annandale. N.S.W. 2038 Boomalli Abor...
Vangard Gallery: Collaborative Drawings: John Berger and Marisa Camino
He is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years, who has explored the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics and experience and expression in a series of novels, book works, essays,...
Appleton Museum of Art: Splendors of 16th and 17th Century: Dutch, Spanish, Flemish, French, British Painting From the Collections of the Ringling Museum of Art
Splendors samples the Ringling's extensive Baroque collection, considered among the largest and finest in North America. Baroque art emerged as a product of the Catholic Counter Reformation in the 17th century. It is characterized, in part, b...
University of Essex Art Gallery: Trish Morrissey: Seven Years
In a series of elaborately constructed portraits, Morrissey worked closely with her elder sister to impersonate family members (both real and imagined) and re-enact memories familiar to all of us - childhood birthdays or holidays at the seaside. T...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints
The exhibition of 62 prints is organized by the National Lending Service of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It will comprise prints ranging in date from 1500 to 1601. Together, they suggest that the portrait is inextricable from its so...
Pump House Gallery: Trish Morrissey: New Works
In order to construct images that appear to be authentic family photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, Morrissey uses period clothing and props, both her own and others, and the setting of her family's house in Dublin. She and her sister assume ...
Modern Art Museum, Sao Paolo: Panorama da Arte Brasileira 2005 (Panorama of Brazilian Art 2005)
Chaimovich has built the exhibition around eight artistic genres: landscapes, portraits, still-life, genre, allegory, history, religion and emblem. The exhibition’s point of reference is Pliny the Elder’s book Natural History, written in the firs...
Institute of Modern Art: 3 EXHIBITIONS......1 LOCATION
Since 1991, Indigenous artists Brenda L. Croft and Destiny Deacon have exhibited their work alongside one another in various exhibitions, strengthening a friendship which stems from early days in indigenous affairs, government and community or...
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, NGBK: Crown Jewels
After the recognition and the international success of the british-indian musicians, filmmakers and writers the innovative potential of visual artists, originating from the former colonies of the crown known as the Jewel of the Crown is ...
Bonnefanten Museum: The Rijksmuseum Comes to Maastricht: Works from the Southern Netherlands on Loan
Next year, the current loan scheme will be extended further due to the ongoing refurbishment of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which as a result will only be able to exhibit the highlights of 17th century art from the Northern Netherlands. ...
Museum of Garden History: diversion: 23 Artists' Reflexions of the Museum of Garden History
Artists taking part in diversion include Suky Best Ellen Bigge Clare Bryan Annie Cattrell Lisa Cheung David Cotterrell Edith Dekyndt Peter Dukes Judith Frost Dan Howard-Birt Theo Kaccoufa Sophie Lascelles Laura Malacart Charlie Murphy S/bas...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
Haus der Kunst: Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to Bonnard The Collection Dr. Gustav Rau
After the exhibition in Paris and Cologne, this priceless collection is now to be seen in its noticeably enlarged form in Haus der Kunst. A selection of 100 paintings demonstrates in an exemplary manner the development of European painting from th...
Frick Art and Historical Center: The Poetry of Place: Works on Paper by Thomas Moran from the Gilcrease Museum
The exhibition comprises 81 works on paper spanning the years 1856 through 1900. Also included is the oil painting, Vera Cruz (1885). The exhibition is drawn in its entirety from the Gilcrease Museum, which, since purcha...
National Gallery of Art: Stunning Still Lifes by Anne Vallayer-Coster, Foremost 18th-Century Painter in Court of Marie-Antoinette
Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, this exhibition has its debut at the National Gallery of Art, where it opens on June 30 and closes on September 22, 2002. More than 40 of Vallayer-Coster's paintings are presented from private collections and...

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Frans Van Mieris The Elder (1635 - 1681) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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Frans van Mieris the Elder / The Doctors Visit / 1667
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Frans van Mieris the Elder / Pictura (Allegory of Painting) / 1661

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