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 Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, i. 89, 226; Dohme, 1ii.; Gautier, Guide au Louvre, 144; Gower, Figure Painters, 73; Immerzeel, ii. 226; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 407; Kramm, iv. 1124; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 334; Quellenschriften, xiv. 299; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xi. (Mittheilungen, iv. 17); xvii. 155.

MIERIS, FRANS VAN, the younger, born in Leyden, Dec. 24, 1689, died there, Oct. 22, 1763. Dutch school; genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of Willem van Mieris, but greatly inferior to his father in drawing, colouring, and finish. He was a distinguished antiquary, and published works of merit on numismatics and history. Works: Hermit in Prayer (1721), Grocer's Shop (1715), Pharmacy (1714), Amsterdam Museum; Regents' Piece (1730), Male Portrait, Leyden Museum; Fishmonger (1747), Rotterdam Museum; Baker and Woman, Pedlar and Boy, Cassel Gallery; Portrait of his Father (1737), Copenhagen Gallery; Scholar (1717), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Woman and Man conversing by a Stall with Eatables (1738), Gotha Museum; Vertumnus and Pomona (1716), Schwerin Gallery; A Hermit, Christiania Gallery; The Breakfast, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel, ii. 228; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 544; Kramm, iv. 1126.

MIERIS, JAN VAN, born at Leyden in 1660, died at Rome in 1690. Genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of Frans, the elder, then of Lairesse; went via Germany to Florence and Rome. As he died when thirty, his pictures are very rare. Works: Assembly of Ladies and Gentlemen with Lute-Player, Gotha Museum; Surgeon dressing Wound, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 717.

MIERIS, WILLEM VAN, born in Leyden in 1662, died there, Jan. 27, 1747. Dutch school; genre and mythology painter, son and pupil of Frans, the elder, whom in his early genre pictures he approached in merit, though always inferior in drawing and impasto. In his later time he painted mythological subjects and landscapes, which are prosaic and totally deficient in grace. Painted small easel pictures, especially shop interiors, also historical and mythological subjects. Modelled statuettes and vases adorned with bas-reliefs. Died blind at the age of 85. Works: Female Poultry-Dealer (1713), National Gallery, London; Woman and Violin-Player, Bridgewater Gallery, ib.; Two Girls, Young Man giving Grapes to a Woman, David and Bathsheba, Mr. Hope, ib.; Old Woman and a Girl, Mr. Baring, ib.; Raree-Show, Mr. Heusch, ib.; Three Children, Poultry-Dealer, The Cook, Louvre; Fishmonger (1717), Antwerp Museum; Susanna and the Judges, Brussels Museum; Poultry Dealer (1733), Arcadian Landscape (1722), Lady and Gentleman, Amsterdam Museum; Grocer's Shop (1717), Hague Museum; Fishmonger with Glass of Beer, Basle Museum; Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Carlsruhe Gallery; Old Woman in Grocer's Shop, Cassel Gallery; Ceres (1719), Copenhagen Gallery; Venus endeavoring to dissuade Adonis from Hunting, Darmstadt Museum; Itinerant Musician embraced by Girl (1694), Game Dealer, Woman filling Glass for a Man (1699), Man blowing a Trumpet (1700), Cephalus and Procris (1702), Venus Asleep (1703), Ariadne and Bacchus (1704), Fortune-Teller, Girl bringing Drink to a Man (1706), Preciosa recognized by her Mother (1709), Venus and Paris (1717), Company of Apes (1719), Old Cook (1729), Dresden Gallery; Male and Female Portrait, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Interior with Lady and Fishmonger (1719), Old Pinakothek, Munich;