George van der Mijn (1723, London – 1763, Amsterdam), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch: Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie or RKD) he was the son of Herman van der Mijn, who was born in London after his dad moved there. He is known for portraits and genre works and his pupil was Dirk van Dijl.
Johan van Gool wrote very nearly him, his father, his brothers Robert, Francis, Andreas and Gerard, and his sister Cornelia who were all good painters in their own right. Van Gool mentioned that out of the ordinary brother Willem could have been a great painter, but fell through the ice even though skating and died young. He probably discussed his family past George himself, since they were contemporaries in Amsterdam during the epoch Van Gool was working on his book.
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