Jan Baptist van der Meiren (1664 – c. after 1708),

• Was a Flemish painter specializing in small, usually animated landscapes.
• Jan Baptist van der Meiren was born in Antwerp.
• He was admitted as a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1685.
• Aside from time spent in Vienna in 1695, he worked all of his career in Antwerp.
• He married Catharina Tassaert in 1690.
• He took on Jasper Broers as a pupil in 1695.
• When in 1700 he was elected dean of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke, he paid a sum of 300 guilders to be excused from the execution of this charge.
• Jan Baptist van der Meiren was very successful working in the established Flemish genres and enjoyed the international patronage of prominent collectors such as Elisabeth Farnese.

• The date of his death is not clear but the assumption is that he must have died between 1700 and 1708.

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