Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt

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Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (1567–1641)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, and draftsman.
• He became a pupil of Willem Willemz and Augusteyn of Delft.
• Anthonie van Montfoort had seen and admired two of Mierevelt's early engravings, Christ and the Samaritan and Judith and Holofernes, and invited him to enter his school at Utrecht.
• Today over 500 paintings are or have been attributed to him.
• Many of his pupils and assistants rose to fame.
• The most gifted of them were Paulus Moreelse, Jan Antonisz. van Ravesteyn, Daniel Mijtens, Anthonie Palamedesz, Johan van Nes, and Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet.
• His sons Pieter and Jan, and his son-in-law Jacob Delff, probably painted many of the pictures which go under his name.
• His portrait was painted by Anthony van Dyck and engraved by Jacob Delff.
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Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1630

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-19.

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1630

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of a Lady, 1628

Original, The Wallace Collection, London. Visited in 2018.

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of a Lady, 1628

After Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Jan Muller, Ambrosius Spinola, between 1571 and 1628, between 1571 and 1628

Original, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts. Visited in 2020.

After Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Jan Muller, Ambrosius Spinola, between 1571 and 1628, between 1571 and 1628

After Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Jan Muller, Ambrosius Spinola, between 1571 and 1628, between 1571 and 1628

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of Equerry Zijdewijn van Nuyssenburch (1598-1673), 1627

Original, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Visited in 2022.

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of Johanna van Heyst, Wife of Equerry Zijdewij van Nuyssenburch, 1627

Original, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Visited in 2022.

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1617

Original, Museum of Fine Art Boston. Visited in 2018-2023.

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1617

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt and Workshop, Portrait of Elizabeth Stuart (The Winter Queen), ca. 1623

Original, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Visited in 2022.

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt and Workshop, Portrait of Elizabeth Stuart (The Winter Queen), ca. 1623

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt and Workshop, Portrait of Elizabeth Stuart (The Winter Queen), ca. 1623

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt and Workshop, Portrait of Frederick V of the Palatinate (The Winter King), ca. 1630

Original, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Visited in 2022.

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt and Workshop, Portrait of Frederick V of the Palatinate (The Winter King), ca. 1630

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt and Workshop, Portrait of Frederick V of the Palatinate (The Winter King), ca. 1630