Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Frans van Mieris the Elder
(1635 - 1681)
 
Frans van Mieris the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan (1660–1690) and Willem (1662–1747) and his grandson Frans van Mieris the Younger (1689–1763) were also accomplished genre painters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_van_Mieris_the_Elder



De briefschrijver (The Letter Writer)
1680
oil on panel
25 × 20 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-261
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