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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of a Lady 1630 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of a Gentleman before 1641 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of a Young Man 1624 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola 1609 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange 1632 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Amalia van Solms ca. 1632-41 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Frédéric-Maurice de la Tour d’Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon 1626 oil on panel Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Caecilia van Beresteyn 1640 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Gerard Beelaerts 1638 oil on panel Cultural Institute of the Netherlands, Amsterdam |
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| Michiel van Miereveld and Pieter van Miereveld Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Willem van der Meer 1617 oil on canvas Museum Prinsenhof, Delft |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1630 oil on panel Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| workshop of Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Willem Lodewijk van Nassau 1609 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| workshop of Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Frederick V of the Palatinate, in Youth 1613 oil on copper Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Frederick V of the Palatinate (the Winter King) ca. 1628-32 oil on panel private collection |
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| Willem Jacobsz Delff after Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Michiel van Miereveld ca. 1610-25 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"According to Karel van Mander (1604) Michiel van Miereveld was born on May 1, 1567. His father was a prominent goldsmith, Jan Michielsz van Miereveld (1528-1612), and his mother was the daughter of a glass painter. The biographer cites two early teachers of Van Miereveld, the otherwise unknown Willem Willemsz and "a pupil of [Anthonie] Blocklandt, Augustijn, in Delft, whose spirit greatly overflowed with invention." At about the age of fourteen (presumably in 1581) the artist, who already excelled in writing, drawing, and engraving, went to study "for two years and three months" in Utrecht with Blocklandt, who had been a highly regarded history painter in Delft during the 1550s and 1560s. Van Miereveld joined the Delft painters' guild in 1587 and served as headman in 1589-90 and in 1611-12. In 1607 he beame court painter to Prince Maurits and effectively began his career as the leading portraitist of aristocratic and patrician figures in The Hague, Delft, and other cities. It must have been in order to continue in this capacity that the artist joined the painters' guild of The Hague in 1625, but this became unnecessary when he was named court painter in the same year by Maurits's successor, Frederick Hendrick. Van Miereveld married twice, in 1589 and in 1633. His sons Pieter (1596-1623) and Jan (1604-1633) were among his many pupils, but both predeceased their father, and after his death [in 1641] his studio was inherited by his grandson, Jacob Willemsz Delff the Younger (1619-1661)."
– Walter Liedtke, Vermeer and the Delft School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001)