Agatha van der Mijn - Study of fruit and flowers

Agatha van der Mijn (13 May 1700 – 1776/1796), was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands active in London.

Biography

She was the younger sister of the painter

Herman van der Mijn Herman van der Mijn, or Heroman van der Myn (1684 in Amsterdam – 1741 in London), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. According to Houbraken he introduced Jan van Nickelen to Jan Frans van Douven. ...

, and like her niece Cornelia learned to paint flowers from him.Agatha van der Mijn in the

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The poet Willem van Swaanenburg (1678 - 1728) published a book of poems "Parnas" in 1724 that included a poem in honor of her 18th birthday professing his undying love for her and mentioning her as "a magical goddess of painter flowers". Since this poem shows that she was already active as a flower artist before 1718, it is possible that she accompanied her brother when he took his family and the family of his pupil

Jacoba Maria van Nickelen Jacoba Maria van Nickelen (1690, Haarlem – 1749, Amsterdam), was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography van Nicklen was born into an old painting family of Haarlem; her grandfather Isaak van Nickelen paint ...

to Dusseldorp in 1712-1713 to work for

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. The flower painter

Rachel Ruysch Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful care ...

was also active in Dusseldorp in the years 1712-1716 and Agatha's work, along with that of Nickelen and her niece

Cornelia van der Mijn Cornelia van der Mijn (1709, Amsterdam – 1782, London), was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands active in London in the 1760s. Biography According to the RKD she was the daughter and pupil of the painter Herman van ...

all show a similar style. In 1722 Herman van der Mijn moved to London with his family and she accompanied him. Herman died a year after his son Robert sank through the ice at

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in 1740 while ice-skating. In 1808 Edward Edwards wrote the following in a piece about her nephew, Herman's son

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: "Beside Frank, there were two other artists of the same name, R. and A. Vandermine, both of whom were related to the former. One of them painted for the shops, and there are many slight pictures of an Old Man, in a loose coat and hair cap, hugging a bag of money, which were painted, by one of these artists. The wife of one of them was also of the profession : She painted fruit and flowers, and they were all exhibitors at the

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, in the years 1761 and 1762.".Anecdotes of painters who have resided or been born in England : with critical remarks on their productions
Sequel by Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, after Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 (Anecdotes of painting in England), 1808

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