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Pieter Mierevelt (October 5, 1596 – January 11, 1623) was a
in the RKD The only person looking at the doctor is Pieter Mierevelt himself.Delft archives
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Pieter Mierevelt (October 5, 1596 – January 11, 1623) was a Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
painter.
Biography
Mierevelt was born in the city ofDelft
Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ...
. According to Houbraken he was one of two sons of Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt who died early, whose works were such that they could easily pass for his father's. Houbraken discovered him when he saw a portrait at the home of the Friesian painter Gerard Wigmana
Gerard Wigmana (27 September 1673, in Workum – 27 May 1741, in Amsterdam), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Biography
In 1697 he painted a curious group portrait of a family dinner, with the title ''Mayor Saco v ...
(who was living in Amsterdam while Houbraken was writing) that was signed with a P and an M entwined with the date 1620. When he got home he looked up Mierevelt in his "Description of Delft" by Dirk van Bleiswijk and discovered he had a son Pieter who died in Delft in 1623 at the age of 27. Mierevelt's other son was Jan, who also died young in 1633.
According to the RKD he painted the anatomie lesson of Dr. Willem van der Meer.Pieter Miereveltin the RKD The only person looking at the doctor is Pieter Mierevelt himself.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mierevelt, Pieter 1596 births 1623 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Delft