Drawing of Daniel Mytens (ca. 1590-1674), painter born in Delft in the northern Netherlands. He moved to London in the mid-1610s where his patrons included many members of the royal court and later King James I and Charles I. He returned to The Hague in 1630 where he worked as an art dealer
Alternative Title:
Daniel Mytens pictor magna Britannia Regis
Description:
Title from item., Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Mytens in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 7. Artist indentified as: Ant. van Dyck pinxt., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
