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Daniël Mijtens

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in 1632 he was superseded as the leading court portraitist. Van Dyck demonstrated his superiority over Mytens by painting a portrait of the King and Queen, based on Mytens original, but better executed. Around 1634 Mytens appears to have returned to the Netherlands permanently. He subsequently worked
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After the prince's accession to the throne as Charles I in 1625 Mijtens produced such a large number of full-length portraits of Charles I and his courtiers, including duplicates, that it is assumed that he had workshop assistance. Two of his finest portraits are of the same man,
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primarily as an art dealer in The Hague, acquiring works for the Earl of Arundel among others. Only four paintings survive from this final period. He died in
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Some of Mijtens' works are still owned by the royal family. Mijtens also made copies of old portraits of royal sitters, including;
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was a patron of Mijtens, and in 1618 while discussing a potential purchase of pictures by
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for £120 in 1625. The portrait of James IV may follow a lost original described in an
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Mijtens introduced a new naturalism into the English court portrait, and influenced
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He was born in Delft, the son of Maerten Mijtens, an art dealer and saddler from
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as a "picture of Jacobe kinge of Scottes with an hawke on his fist".
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painters who spent the central years of his career working in
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Index

Daniel Mijtens the Younger

Paulus Pontius
Sir Anthony van Dyck

James Hamilton, Earl of Arran
Tate Britain

James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton
Scottish National Gallery

National Portrait Gallery, London
[ˈdaːnijɛlˈmɛitəns]
Dutch Golden Age
Flemish
England
Brussels
Van Mierevelt
Aert Mijtens
Isaac Mijtens
Daniel Mijtens the Younger
London
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
James I
Charles
Prince of Wales
James Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton
Rubens
Van Dyck

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