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Frans van Mieris the Elder

[Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1635-1681]

• Relationships: Father of Jan van Mieris and Willem van Mieris.
Studied under Gerrit Dou.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, with Adriaen van der Spelt

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Dutch courtship, 1675

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
5 works by van Mieris

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Pictura (An Allegory of Painting), 1661
The Doctor's Visit, 1667

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague   NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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National Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  
5 works by Frans van Mieris online

The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)   NEW!  

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
A cavalier (self-portrait), 1657-59

CODART - Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
Scroll down for one painting by Frans van Mieris I

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Dog lying down

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  
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Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)   NEW!  

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Venus and Cupid, 1665

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Portrait of a Woman with a Lap-Dog, 1672

Virtual Uffizi

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Pictures from Image Archives:
Frans van Mieris the Elder in the Art Renewal Center

Frans van Mieris the Elder at CGFA  

Frans van Mieris the Elder in the Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

 
Other Web Sites:
The BBC
A Boy Blowing Bubbles

The Modernist Journals Project

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frans van Mieris the Elder
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

  
 
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