Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (1567–1641)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age  portrait painter, and draftsman.
• He became a pupil of Willem Willemz and Augusteyn of Delft.
• Anthonie van Montfoort had seen and admired two of Mierevelt's early engravings, Christ and the Samaritan and Judith and Holofernes, and invited him to enter his school at Utrecht.
• Today over 500 paintings are or have been attributed to him.
• Many of his pupils and assistants rose to fame.
• The most gifted of them were Paulus Moreelse, Jan Antonisz. van Ravesteyn, Daniel Mijtens, Anthonie Palamedesz, Johan van Nes, and Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet.
• His sons Pieter and Jan, and his son-in-law Jacob Delff, probably painted many of the pictures which go under his name.
• His portrait was painted by Anthony van Dyck and engraved by Jacob Delff.
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