Herman van der Mijn, or Heroman van der Myn (1684 in

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– 1741 in

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), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. According to Houbraken he introduced

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.Herman van der Mijn Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the

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According to the RKD he learned to paint flowers from

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, and became a master of the Antwerp

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in 1712, and the following year court painter to

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. He took the family of

in tow to Dusseldorp, where they painted at court, and Van der Mijn taught Van Nickelen's daughter

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 paint flowers. She met the painters

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and Willem Troost (whom Jacoba married) there.Herman van der Mijn
in the

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Van der Mijn returned to the Netherlands in 1717, but left on a trip via Brussels and Paris to London, where he stayed except in 1737, when he took a trip to

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. His sister Agatha was also a flower painter who accompanied him to England, and his children all became painters:

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, Cornelia,

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and Andreas van der Mijn. Other pupils (besides Jacoba Maria) were James Latham and Herman Frederik van Hengel. He also thought

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, daughter of

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and

Caroline of Ansbach , father = John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach , mother = Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach , birth_date = , birth_place = Ansbach, Principality of Ansbach, Holy Roman Empire , death_date = , death_place = St James's Pala ...

, drawing and painting. She made a portrait of van der Mijn himself while he was at work making portraits of other family members.

References

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