Anton Mirou

[2] On stylistic grounds it is believed that Mirou trained in Frankenthal under the prominent Flemish landscape artist Gillis van Coninxloo who resided there from 1588 to 1595.

[3][4] A majority of Mirou's landscapes are distinguished from those of his contemporaries by the presence of richly dressed figures that populate the woody paths.

These landscapes depict abundant trees or shrubs, craggy mountains, waterfalls and rock formations and complex paths.

After about 1614 Mirou seems to have undergone the influence of another artist of Flemish descent active in Frankenthal called Pieter Schoubroeck.

A series of 26 plates of his views of Bad Schwalbach were turned into prints by Matthias Merian and published in an album entitled Novae quaedem ac paganae regiunculae circa acidulas Swalbacenses delineatae per Antonium Mirulem in aes vero incisae per Mathae Merianem (Some new and rural village views around the sour springs of Schwalbach, drawn by Anton Mirou but cut in copper by Matthias Merian, 1620) (Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, ca.

[6] Mirou's works are held in the Prado, the Rijksmuseum,[7] the Szépművészeti Múzeum,[8] the Bavarian State Painting Collections,[9] the National Gallery Prague, and the Historical Museum of the Pfalz.