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Michiel Janszoon ( Jansz.) van Mierevelt (; also spelled Miereveld or Miereveldt; 1 May 1566 – 27 June 1641) was a Dutch painter and draftsman of the Dutch Golden Age.

Biography

Van Mierevelt was born and died in Delft, as a son of a goldsmith, who apprenticed him to the copperplate engraver Hieronymus Wierix. He subsequently became a pupil of Willem Willemz and Augusteyn of Delft, until Anthonie van Montfoort (Houbraken calls him Antony Blokland), who had seen and admired two of Mierevelt's early engravings, Christ and the Samaritan and Judith and Holofernes, invited him to enter his school at Utrecht.

He registered as a member of the Guild of St. Luke in The Hague in 1625. Devoting himself first to still lifes, he eventually took up portraiture, in which he achieved such success that the many commissions entrusted to him necessitated the employment of numerous assistants, by whom hundreds of portraits were turned out in factory fashion. Today over 500 paintings are or have been attributed to him. 1623, engraving, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC

File:Dessau, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Michiel van Mierevelt, Bildnis eines unbekannten Mannes.jpg|Portrait of an unknown man, 1630, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau

File:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Portret van een vrouw.jpg|Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of a woman, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

File:Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt - Portrait of a Woman - WGA15622.jpg|Portrait of a Woman

File:Michiel-Jansz van Mierevelt (attr) Bildnis einer jungen adeligen Dame.jpg|Portrait of a Young Woman

File:Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Double Portrait of a Husband and Wife with Tulip, Bulb, and Shells.jpg|Double Portrait of a Husband and Wife with Tulip, Bulb, and Shells oil on panel painting by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1609

File:Der junge Friedrich V. C-B 011.jpg|Frederick V of the Palatinate, 1613

File:Van Mierevelt RM annotated.jpg|Autopsy

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Attribution:

  • Works and literature on Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
  • Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt