Willem van Mieris (1662–1747),

• Was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
• Willem van Mieris was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden.
• He was born in Leiden and studied under his father Frans van Mieris the Elder, who was a successful genre painter.
• Agneta Chapman, Willem van Mieris' wife, is considered to have acted as the artist's first model.
• Besides genre and portrait painting, Van Mieris was also a skilled landscape painter.
• Hieronymous van der Mij, born in 1687 in Leiden, was one of Willem van Mieris' pupils.
• Van der Mij painted mostly portraits, borrowing from van Mieris' style.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: The Poultry Seller, 1733.
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