Frans van der Mijn

1719 - 1783 Dutch

Niederländischer Porträtmaler in England

Frans van der Mijn war ein Maler aus den nördlichen Niederlanden im 18. Jahrhundert. Laut dem Niederländischen Institut für Kunstgeschichte (RKD) war er der Sohn von Herman van der Mijn und wurde geboren, als sein Vater nach Düsseldorf zog, um für Johann Wilhelm, den Kurfürsten der Pfalz, zu arbeiten. Er beeinflusste den Maler James Latham. Er arbeitete zwischen 1742 und 1748 in Amsterdam und später in Den Haag, bevor er nach England zurückkehrte, wo er Porträts malte und von 1761 bis 1772 jedes Jahr ein Gemälde bei der Londoner Society of Artists einreichte. In 1750 Johan van Gool wrote about him, his father, his brothers Robert, George, Andreas and Gerard, and his sister Cornelia who were all good painters. In 1808 Edward Edwards wrote the following about him: "Frank Vandermine, or Vander Mijne: A native of Holland, who lived many years in England, and practised as a portrait painter, both in London and the country. He was some time at Norwich, where he painted several heads. He had considerable merit as an artist, but was of mean address and vulgar manners: He loved smoking and drinking, nor would forego his pipe, though it was offensive to his employers, so that he never acquired the practice which he might otherwise have obtained. He boasted, that after he had painted a portrait, the likeness remained so strong upon his memory, that if the picture were immediately obliterated, he could repaint the resemblance without the assistance of the sitter. He died in indigent circumstances, at his apartments in Moorfields, some time in 1783.