MIGNON, MINION, or MINJON, ABRAHAM, a painter, was born at Frankfort-on-the-Maine in 1640, and studied at Utrecht under Jan David de Heem. Having a natural taste for art, and also great skill and aptitude in painting, he added to these advantages the most unwearied diligence in the imitation and study of nature, and thus soon rose to great eminence as a painter. Mignon is remarkable for the accuracy of his representations and the beauty of his colouring, and his works are in general very highly prized. His paintings, which are rare, represent chiefly flowers, fruit, insects, birds, fish, &c. He died in 1679.