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It is believed that he began his training at his father’s workshop, the history painter Paulus Joostenz. Wouwerman (+1642), by whom no work has been identified to date. According to Cornelis de Bie, he received training in Frans Hals’s workshop. However, it is clear that his painting does not reveal any connection to that of Hals´s. According to information provided by his student Matthias Scheits
Son of the goldsmith Jan Michelsz. van Mierevelt (1528–1612), Michiel was the most prominent representative of official Dutch portrait painting in the first decades of the 17th century. He became a history painter in Anthonis van Blockland’s (1533/34–1583) workshop in Utrecht, where he remained for two years until the master’s death. Afterwards, he returned to Delft where he established himself as
No other 17th-century European painter combined artistic talent, social and economic success and a high cultural level like Rubens. Though primarily a painter, he also made numerous designs for prints, tapestries, architecture, sculpture and decorative objects. His abundant work is strikingly versatile in its subject matter, including paintings on mythological, religious and historical subjects as
He was the ninth child of a wealthy family from Leiden. His father, Harmen Gerritsz. van Rijn, came from a family of millers who had settled in the city and who adopted the nickname Van Rijn since the mill was located on the banks of the Rhine. His mother, Harmen Neeltgen van Zuytbroeck, was the daughter of a prosperous baker in the same city. In 1620, after seven years of study at a Latin school,
He was a history painter, a portraitist and a landscape artist. There is no information about his childhood in Amsterdan. He moved to Haarlem prior to 1617, since that year he had been accepted in the circle of rhetoricians De Wijngaardranke, or ‘the gathering of the vineyard’. In that city, he studied with Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) and Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562–1638). There is evi