马丁·Meytens出生在受洗斯德哥尔摩，瑞典。他开始了他的艺术研究，他的父亲，画家马丁Meytens长辈，谁从搬到海牙瑞典。他继续学习旅行，而早。他访问了伦敦，巴黎和维也纳，然后他住在意大利（罗马，都灵）工作了很长一段时间。在开始的时候，他画珐琅小微型画像，他改成油画只有约1730年，在维也纳已经解决。在这里，他成为在宫廷和贵族的圈子肖像画家很受欢迎。1732年他成为了宫廷画家，并于1759年美术。的维也纳学院的主任弗朗兹·梅塞施密特是他的得意门生。

Meytens是代表巴洛克宫廷画像的最显著的奥地利画家之一，并通过他的学生和追随者他的影响力依然存在而且广泛用于在整个帝国的很长一段时间。他的个人美德，不同的利益，博学和愉快的态度由他的同时代人的高度赞赏。

在婚礼的晚餐描绘的婚礼帕尔马公主伊莎贝拉和约瑟夫二世 1760年10月5日在霍夫堡宫的Redoutensaele（福到大厅）。所描绘的时刻是当甜点供应，在桌子中间是由地壳糖制成的花园。[

在他的学生是乔瓦尼·加布里埃尔CANTONE（生于维也纳，1710 5月24日）。

Martin Meytens was born in Stockholm of Sweden to be baptized. He began his art studies with his father, painter Martin Meytens elder, who moved from Hague to sweden. He went on with his studies, as early as. He visited London, Paris and Vienna, and then he worked in Italy (Rome, Turin) for a long time. In the beginning, he painted enamel small miniature portrait, he changed the painting only about 1730 in Vienna has been resolved. Here, he became a popular portrait painter in the court and aristocratic circles. In 1732 he became a court painter, and in 1759. The Vienna school director Franz Meisel Schmidt is his favourite pupil.
Meytens is one of the most prominent painters of the Austria painting on behalf of the baroque palace, and through his students and followers his influence still exists and is widely used throughout the Empire for a long time. He was highly appreciated by his contemporaries for his personal virtues, diverse interests, erudition and pleasant manner.
The wedding dinner depicts the wedding of Princess Isabella of Parma and the second Hall of Redoutensaele in October 5, 1760 () to the Hofburg in the city of victoria. The moment is when the dessert is served, and in the middle of the table is a garden made of sugar. [
Among his students was Giovanni CANTONE (born in Vienna, 17105, 24) ().