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Willem van Mieris
Dutch painter
Willem van Mieris (3 June 1662 – 26 January 1747) was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic.
Biography
Willem van Mieris was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden.
Willem van mieris biography of william shakespeare
He was born in Leiden and studied under his father Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1682), who was a successful genre painter. Willem had a reasonably successful career, being supported by a few patrons who commissioned and collected various of his works.[1][2] His oeuvre consists mostly of genre and portraiture, with some landscape painting, as well as some sculptures.
Van Mieris' style was that of the fijnschilders (painters in the "fine manner"), and his genre works, especially later in his career, depicted scenes from upper-class society.[1]
At age 19, Van Mieris took over the family workshop after his father died in 1681, aged 45.
He had barely finished his training in the family studio and it would take a