Heroman [Herman] van der Mijn [Myn], Dutch painter, part of a family of artists, also active in England. Heroman van der Mijn was a portrait and still-life painter of some distinction, although his work shows little originality. His sister Agatha van der Mijn (active early 18th century) painted similar subjects and accompanied her brother to England shortly after 1721. Six of Heroman's children became painters: his daughter Cornelia van der Mijn (b. 1710) and his sons Gerard van der Mijn (b. 1706), Andreas van der Mijn (b. ?1714), Frans van der Mijn (1719-93), George van der Mijn and Robert van der Mijn (b. 1724), of whom only Frans and George established important reputations. Frans became an accomplished and fashionable portrait painter in Amsterdam and London; George excelled both his father and brother in originality and may be regarded as one of the best Dutch portrait painters of the 18th century. Heroman van der Mijn was a pupil of Ernst Stuven (1660-1712). After his marriage in 1706, he lived in Amsterdam, then in Antwerp (1712-13) and finally in Düsseldorf, where he worked for the Elector Palatine, John William. In 1716, after the Elector's death, van der Mijn returned to Antwerp and thence went to London. His surviving early paintings are mainly flower still-lifes (e.g. Munich, Alte Pinakothek); from his period in Antwerp there are some undistinguished history pieces. After 1721 he concentrated on portrait painting. His portrait of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (London, National Portrait Gallery) dates from his early days in England and, in common with his other portraits, shows the influence of Godfrey Kneller. Like Kneller, van der Mijn worked for the English court. This association was severed temporarily when one of his paintings was refused in 1727/28 but, happily for the artist's stricken finances, restored upon the arrival of Prince William IV of Orange Nassau. He went with the Prince and Princess to the Netherlands, and he was working at the palace of Het Loo in 1736. A portrait of William IV (Groningen, Groninger Museum) bears the date 1737. Apparently he soon fell out of favour with his patron and returned to London, where he died. //