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Hieronymus van der Mij Leiden 1687 - 1761
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Description
- Hieronymus van der Mij
- Portrait of a lady, three-quarter length, standing in a wooded landscape with a spaniel and a perroquet in a tree nearby
- signed on the rock lower left: H:Vandr/ Mij fec.
- oil on panel
Provenance
In the family of the present owner since at least circa 1950.
Catalogue Note
Van der Mij's meticulously-detailed portraits of Dutch gentry, generally on a small scale, placed him among the Leidse Fijnschilders (literally the 'Leiden Fine-painters'), of which his teacher, Willem van Mieris, was a chief exponent. A comparable picture by Van der Mij, A Portrait of Claudine van Royen in a landscape, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. C1526).