Aert Mijtens

Aert Mijtens (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈaːrt ˈmɛitəns]; c. 1541 – 1602) was a Flemish Renaissance painter who worked for most of his career in Italy.

[2] According to the early biographer Karel van Mander he travelled to Italy where he was called Rinaldo fiammingo and he became a friend of the Flemish painter Hans Speckaert.

De Smets workshop functioned as a base for foreigners from the Low Countries in Napels.

He was adopted by Cornelis de Smet and worked as assistant or pupil and lived in his house.

[3][1] He lived in Rome with his children in the house of another Flemish painter Anthonis Santvoort in the Via di Ripetta.