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He worked often as a portrait artist. He portrayed living and deceased members of the royal family as stand-alone works or as part of the tomb monuments on which he worked. His style is realistic. The same realism is also present in his purely vegetative decorations. The queen dowager appreciated his
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He moved to Sweden in August 1669 on the recommendation of the
Swedish resident in The Hague, Johann Philip Silfvercrona. He stayed in Sweden until 1676 and became a court sculptor to the King. In 1673 he obtained a privilege at the marble quarry of KolmĂĄrden. The next year he was appointed the royal
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Millich was selected to design the new tower of the St. Paul's Church in Antwerp when he was back in Antwerp around 1680. He designed a Baroque tower top with an octagonal superstructure, which ends with a small lantern turret. The upward lines of this lantern turret consist of
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who had created the sculptural programme for the large city hall building in
Amsterdam. Millich had also worked on this project in Amsterdam under the direction of Rombout Verhulst. During a visit to his homeland in around the 1680s, he was confronted with the new style which was then the rage in
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Millich's most notable work were the statue carvings decorating the staircase and hall of
Drottningholm Palace. For the large staircase in marble he created, partially in Sweden and partially in Antwerp, a series of statues of Apollo, Minerva and the nine Muses, together with a series of busts of
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in Södertörn. It includes busts of the deceased and his two spouses, six putti and statues representing faith and justice. Other tomb monuments included the monuments for
Bielkenstierna, Knut Kurck, Gustav Bonde. On some of these works he collaborated with his pupil Abraham Caesar Lamoureux.
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Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, onder Zinkspreuk: "Wy Jonsten Versaemt" afgeschreven en bemerkt door Ph. Rombouts en Th. Van Lerius, Advokaet, onder de bescherming van den raed van bestuer der koninklyke Akademie van beeldende Kunsten, van gezegde
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Millich was sculptor, architect and designer of armor, festivals, furniture, lamps and ephemeral objects such as cake. He worked in both stone and wood. The skill in the latter enabled him to complete assignments for smaller objects such as frames for paintings by
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where he was baptized on 5 June 1629. His parents were the merchant
Antonius Michill and Susan De Poorter. He is recorded in the period 1653-54 in Brussels as a pupil of the local master Nicolaas Stercx. He was registered as a master sculptor in
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Millich executed a number of tomb monuments and epitaphs in Sweden and
Estonia. For the Imperial Councillor Erik Flemming he produced an epitaph in black and white marble in the church of
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