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ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
43199  
A Woman in a Red Jacket Feeding a Parrot, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 A Woman in a Red Jacket Feeding a Parrot   mk170 circa 1663 Oil on copper 22.5x17.3cm
19429  
A Young Woman in the Morning, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 A Young Woman in the Morning   1659-60 Oil on panel The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
8217  
Brothel Scene ruu, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Brothel Scene ruu   1658 Oil on panel, 43 x 33 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague
19432  
Carousing Couple, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Carousing Couple   Undated Oil on panel Private collection.
8218  
Carousing Couple sg, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Carousing Couple sg   Oil on panel Private collection
32417  
Duet, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Duet   1658 Oil on wood, 31,7 x 24,7 cm
19431  
Old Soldier Smoking a Pipe, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Old Soldier Smoking a Pipe   Oil on panel Allentown Art Museum.
32424  
Pictura, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Pictura   1661 Oil on copper
19428  
Refreshment with Oysters, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Refreshment with Oysters   1659 Oil on panel The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
45699  
Tavern scene, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Tavern scene   mk186 around 1658 the Hague, Mauritshuis
19430  
Teasing the Pet, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Teasing the Pet   1660 Oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague.
19433  
The Artist as Virtuoso at his Easel, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 The Artist as Virtuoso at his Easel   1667 Oil on panel Polesden Lacey, Surrey
29632  
The Lacemaker, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 The Lacemaker   Oil on wood
19427  
The Peasant Inn, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 The Peasant Inn   1655-57 Oil on panel Stedelijk Museum, Leiden.
32427  
Woman before the Mirror, MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
  		 Woman before the Mirror   c. 1670 Oil on wood, 42,9 x 31,6 cm
MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
Dutch painter (b. 1635, Leiden, d. 1681, Leiden). was a Dutch genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan (1660-1690) and Willem (1662?C1747) and his grandson Frans van Mieris the Younger (1689?C1763) were also accomplished genre painters. Frans was the son of Jan Bastiaans van Mieris, a goldsmith, carver of rubies and diamond setter at Leiden. His father wished to train him to his own business, but Frans preferred drawing, and took service with Abraham Toorenvliet, a glazier who kept a school of design. In his father's shop he became familiar with the ways and dress of people of distinction. His eye was fascinated in turn by the sheen of jewelry and stained glass; and, though he soon gave up the teaching of Toorenvliet for that of Gerard Dou and Abraham van den Tempel, he acquired a manner which had more of the finish of the exquisites of the Dutch school than of the breadth of the disciples of Rembrandt. It should be borne in mind that he seldom chose panels of which the size exceeded 12 to 15 inches, and whenever his name is attached to a picture above that size we may surely assign it to his son Willem or to some other imitator. Unlike Dou when he first left Rembrandt, or Jan Steen when he started on an independent career, Mieris never ventured to design figures as large as life. Characteristic of his art in its minute proportions is a shiny brightness and metallic polish. The subjects which he treated best are those in which he illustrated the habits or actions of the wealthier classes; but he sometimes succeeded in homely incidents and in portrait, and not unfrequently he ventured on allegory. He repeatedly painted the satin skirt which Ter Borch brought into fashion, and he often rivalled Ter Borch in the faithful rendering of rich and highly-coloured woven tissues. But he remained below Ter Borch and Metsu, because he had not their delicate perception of harmony or their charming mellowness of touch and tint, and he fell behind Gerard Dou, because he was hard and had not his feeling for effect by concentrated light and shade. In the form of his composition, which sometimes represents the framework of a window enlivened with greenery, and adorned with bas-reliefs within which figures are seen to the waist, his model is certainly Dou. It is a question whether Houbraken has truly recorded this master's birthday. One of his best-known pieces, a party of ladies and gentlemen at an oyster luncheon, in the Hermitage at St Petersburg, bears the date of 1650. Celebrated alike for composition and finish, it would prove that Mieris had reached his prime at the age of fifteen. Another beautiful example, the "Doctor Feeling a Lady's Pulse" in the gallery of Vienna, is dated 1656; and Waagen, in one of his critical essays, justly observes that it is a remarkable production for a youth of twenty-one. In 1657 Mieris was married at Leiden in the presence of Jan Potheuck, a painter, and this is the earliest written record of his existence on which we can implicitly rely. Of the numerous panels by Mieris, twenty-nine at least are dated--the latest being an allegory, long in the Ruhl collection at Cologne, illustrating what he considered the kindred vices of drinking, smoking and dicing, in the year 1680. Mieris had numerous and distinguished patrons. He received valuable commissions from Archduke Leopold, the elector-palatine, and Cosimo III de' Medici, grand-duke of Tuscany. His practice was large and lucrative, but never engendered in him either carelessness or neglect. If there be a difference between the painter's earlier and later work, it is that the former was clearer and more delicate in flesh, whilst the latter was often darker and more livid in the shadows. When he died his clients naturally went over to his son Willem, who in turn bequeathed his painting-room to his son Frans. But neither Willem nor Frans the younger equalled Frans the elder.



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