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| Martin van Meytens (II) (1695–1770) | ||||||||||
| A Swedish painter, draughtsman, miniaturist, and art collector, Van Meytens was born in Stockholm and first trained under his father, Martin van Meytens I. He travelled to Holland, England, and France for further study, where he learned enamelling under Charles Boit and painted portraits of the Duke of Orleans, Louis XV, and Czar Peter. Later, he was employed by August I at Dresden, and in 1721 he moved to Vienna before visiting Venice and Rome to study oil painting, remaining in Italy from 1723 to 1727 before returning to Vienna. There he became court painter to the emperor in 1730 and director of the Court Academy for Painters, Sculptors, and Architecture in 1759. His portraits captured good likenesses, and his refined, aristocratic style captured the grandeur of the Habsburg elite, but in other respects he followed the prevailing tastes of his time and often fell into mannerism. Van Meytens influenced a generation of artists, notably Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, and died in Vienna. | ||||||||||
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