Frans van der Mijn

1719 - 1783 Dutch

Pintor retratista holandês na Inglaterra

Frans van der Mijn foi um pintor do século XVIII originário dos Países Baixos setentrionais. De acordo com o Instituto Holandês de História da Arte (RKD), ele era filho de Herman van der Mijn e nasceu quando seu pai se mudou para Düsseldorf para trabalhar para João Guilherme, Eleitor Palatino. Ele influenciou o pintor James Latham. Trabalhou em Amsterdã entre 1742 e 1748 e em Haia antes de retornar à Inglaterra, onde trabalhou em retratos e enviou uma pintura todos os anos para a Sociedade de Artistas de Londres entre 1761 e 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.