Artist
Frans van Mieris the Elder
Dutch, 1635–1681
Frans van Mieris the Elder was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 71 works are cataloged here, principally at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, most of them oil paintings. Frans van Mieris the Elder was born in Leiden.
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.
Works by Frans van Mieris the Elder
Brothel Scene
Woman before the Mirror
A Meal of Oysters
A Boy Blowing Bubbles
A Young Woman Writing a Letter
Tuning the lute
The Death of Lucretia
A Trumpeter
Broken Egg
Oyster Eaters
Young Woman Writing a Letter
Lady at her Toilet
Portrait of Count Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve
Untitled
Woman feeding a Parrot
A Woman Playing a Lute
An old violin player in a stone arched niche
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