Herman van der Mijn

[1] According to the RKD he learned to paint flowers from Ernst Stuven, and became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1712, and the following year court painter to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine.

She met the painters Rachel Ruysch and Willem Troost (whom Jacoba married) there.

[2] His sister Agatha was also a flower painter who accompanied him to England, and his children all became painters: George, Robert, Cornelia, Frans, Gerard and Andreas van der Mijn.

Other pupils (besides Jacoba Maria) were James Latham and Herman Frederik van Hengel.

[2] He also thought Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, drawing and painting.