MIERIS (John), son of the former, was born at Leyden in 1660, and learned the art of painting from his father. The young artist unhappily was severely afflicted with the gravel and stone; and by those complaints was much hindered in the progress of his studies. But, after the death of his father, he travelled to Germany, and from thence to Florence, where the fame of his father's merit procured him a most honourable reception from the grand duke, who, when he saw some of his paintings, endeavoured to retain him in his service. But Mieris politely declined it, and proceeded to Rome, where his great abilities were well known before his arrival, and his works were exceedingly coveted. In that city his malady increased; yet at the intervals of ease he continued to work with his usual application, till the violence of his distemper ended his days in 1690, when he was only thirty years old. He was allowed to have been as eminent for painting in a large size as his father had been for his works in small.