01 painting, Willem Van Mieris the Elder's A trumpeter at a casement window, with Footnotes #96

Willem Van Mieris the Elder (Leiden 1662-1747)

A trumpeter at a casement window with another figure holding an upturned wine glass, c. 1689

Oil on panel

24.1 x 19.6cm (9 1/2 x 7 11/16in).

Private collection

Willem van Mieris (3 June 1662 – 26 January 1747) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

He was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden. He was born in Leiden and studied under his father Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1682), who was a successful genre painter. Willem had a reasonably successful career, being supported by a few patrons who commissioned and collected various of his works. His oeuvre consists mostly of genre and portraiture, with some landscape painting, as well as some sculptures. 

At age 19, Van Mieris took over the family workshop after his father died in 1681. He had barely finished his training in the family studio and it would take another two years before he entered the Leiden painters' guild in 1685. He set out to uphold his father's reputation as a Leiden fijnschilder. The Leiden fine painters produced a small scale of mostly genre paintings or portraits with high attention to detail. 

Besides genre and portrait painting, Van Mieris was also a skilled landscape painter, etcher, and draughtsman; moreover, he also tried his hand at history painting with remarkable results. more on Willem van Mieris

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