The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...
– buried on 23 September 1688,
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...
Daniel Mytens the Elder
Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...
, although some early sources indicate that his father was Jan Mijtens. His year of birth is sometimes given as 1636 or 1647.
Biography
According to a biography by Arnold Houbraken, Mijtens travelled to Italy in 1666, where he became friends with
Carlo Maratta
Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...
and studied with
Johann Carl Loth
Johann Carl Loth (Baptized 8 August 1632 – 6 October 1698) was a German Baroque painter who spent most of his life in Venice. His name is also rendered as Johann Karl, Karel and, in Italy, Carlotto or Carlo Lotti.Bentvueghels and took the nickname "Bontekraay" (The Hooded Crow).Daniël Mijtens Biography including a poem by Cornelis van Rijssen in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the
Digital library for Dutch literature
The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Dutch: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren or DBNL) is a website (showing the abbreviation as dbnl) about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts, second ...
From 1672 to 1688, he was back in The Hague and was one of the 48 signers of the founding charter of the
Confrerie Pictura
The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague (the Netherlands) by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there.
History
The guild of St. Luke in the Hague existed a ...
in the Hague, and painted one of the four corner pieces of the ceiling of the "
Boterwaag
The Boterwaag is a former weigh house for butter in The Hague, Netherlands. The right half is a café.
History
The left-half of the building was designed by the architect-painter Bartholomeus van Bassen.Rijksmonument report He designed and built i ...
" where the guild members met.Confrerie Pictura page in ''De groote schouburgh...'' The other corners were painted by
Theodor van der Schuer
Theodor van der Schuer (1634–1707) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Van der Schuer was born and died in The Hague. According to Houbraken he travelled to Italy where he joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Vrientschap", or fr ...
,
Augustinus Terwesten
Augustinus Terwesten or Augustinus Terwesten the Elder (4 May 1649 in The Hague – 21 January 1711 in Berlin) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker and art educator. He specialized in portraits, architectural and historical themes. He w ...
, and Robbert Duval. Later, he joined with them to create the
Royal Academy of Art
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...
.
According to the
RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
, he was a pupil of his father, who was court painter in the Hague, and his uncle.Daniël Mijtens in the
RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
He is known for mythological subjects, interior decorations and portraits. His pupils were , , Mattheus Terwesten, and .