119. Michael van Mierevelt - Picturing the Netherlandish Canon

Etching and engraving
Signed ‘Hh’ by Hendrick Hondius, attributed to Simon Frisius

20.2 x 12.4 cm

Transcription of Inscription:

MICHAEL MIREVELT, DELPHENSIS PICTOR. 119
Pingendo ad vivum quo non praestantior alter :
Delphicus hinc Zeuxis dicitur esse novus.
Principibus magnis fuit invitatus: at ipsum
Ante alias urbes patria culta tenet.

Translation of Inscription:

Michael van Mierevelt of Delft, painter
No one was more eminent in painting in lifelike manner.¹Therefore the man of Delft was said to be the new Zeuxis.² He was invited by great princes: but his honored fatherland held him more than other cities.

Orenstein 1996, Frisius no. 149; Hollstein 2008 no.169

Karel Van Mander’s biography of Michael van Mierevelt
Grove Art Online biography

Footnotes:

Or “from life”? See note on text for 87. Crispijn van den Broeck.
As was 95. Michiel Coxie.

Artist Tags: 1610 Hondius Pictorum, Artists with tools of their trade (not including sheet or rolls of paper), Explicitly described as painters in the verse, Only in the Hondius Pictorum, Pictor, Prints in Part Three and Third person.