Jan Baptist van der Meiren
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Jan Baptist van der Meiren was born in Antwerp on 15 December 1664. There are no details on his training.[2] He was admitted as a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1685.[3] Despite a lack of documentary evidence, some historians have speculated that he may have visited Italy since his work displays many Italianizing elements.[4]
Aside from time spent in Vienna in 1695, he worked all of his career in Antwerp.[2] He married Catharina Tassaert in 1690.[3] He took on Jasper Broers as a pupil in 1695.[4] When in 1700 he was elected dean of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke, he paid a sum of 300 guilders to be excused from the execution of this charge.[3]
Jan Baptist van der Meiren was very successful working in the established Flemish genres and enjoyed the international patronage of prominent collectors such as Elisabeth Farnese.[5] His compositions commanded high prices at the time.[2]
The date of his death is not clear but the assumption is that he must have died between 1700 and 1708. If the attribution to van der Meiren of a composition dated 1736 in the collection of the Museum of Western and Oriental Art in Kyiv is correct it points to a death date in or after 1736.[2]
