Frans van der Mijn

1719 - 1783 Dutch

Peintre portraitiste néerlandais en Angleterre

Frans van der Mijn était un peintre du XVIIIe siècle originaire des Pays-Bas septentrionaux. Selon l'Institut néerlandais d'histoire de l'art (RKD), il était le fils de Herman van der Mijn et est né lorsque son père s'est installé à Düsseldorf pour travailler pour Jean-Guillaume, électeur palatin. Il a influencé le peintre James Latham. Il a travaillé à Amsterdam entre 1742 et 1748, puis à La Haye avant de retourner en Angleterre, où il a réalisé des portraits et a envoyé une œuvre chaque année à la Society of Artists de Londres entre 1761 et 1772. 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.