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.

From 1574 to 1592 he resided in Naples where he worked in the workshop of the Flemish painter Cornelis de Smet.

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

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