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17th Century Dutch Portrait Of A Lady By Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693)
£12,000 $16,178 €13,867
Portrait of a lady richly dressed in a purple silk gown with white sleeves, a gold coloured cloak draped across one shoulder, her blonde curls worn up with ringlets falling down either side, wearing pearl drop earrings and a pearl necklace. Set into a feigned oval.
Provenance: Private collection, Belgium
Although the identity of the sitter is unknown, she is likely to have been from one of the wealthy merchant families in Amsterdam (known as ''burghers'') who were keen to show their new found wealth and status through commissioning fashionable portraits of their family members. This portrait dates from the late 1660''s when Maes was at the height of his career, when having a portrait painted by him was seen as most prestigious.
Nicolaes Maes was one of Rembrandt''s most talented pupils. As a boy of about thirteen or fourteen, he left his parents'' home in Dordrecht to serve his apprenticeship with the master in Amsterdam. He spent four or five years in Rembrandt''s works...hop, returning to Dordrecht in 1653 as a fully-fledged artist. Maes started out as a ‘history’ painter, following in Rembrandt''s footsteps, but he soon switched the focus of his activities to genre painting of intimate and detailed domestic scenes. In a short period between 1654 and 1658 he was one of the most innovative painters in this field. His skill at representing an interior as a suite of rooms rather than a three-wall, one-room enclosure, and the true-to life details and intimate nature of his paintings had great impact on the Delft painters Johannes Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch.
In the 1660s, however, Maes began to turn more to portraiture, and after a visit to Antwerp around the middle of the decade his style changed dramatically. He abandoned the reddish tone of his earlier manner for a wider, lighter and cooler colour palette, and the fashionable portraits he now specialised in were closer to those of Van Dyck than to Rembrandt.
Arnold Houbraken''s 1721 biography described the transformation: Maes ''learned the art of painting from Rembrandt but lost that way of painting early, particularly when he took up portraiture and discovered that young ladies preferred white to brown.''
Maes painted his first portraits in 1655, and shortly before 1660 he stopped painting genre works and other paintings altogether, concentrating solely on portraiture, eventually developing a colourful and elegant style that appealed to a broad circle of wealthy clients in Dordrecht, Amsterdam and beyond.
ISHERWOOD FINE ART
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1211971
Dateline of this antique is 17th Century
Height is 53cm (20.9inches)Width is 44.5cm (17.5inches)Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
Antique SA1211971 shown on this page was made in the 17th Century. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
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ANTIQUE SA1211971
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Isherwood Fine Art
16th to 19th century Old Master, British and European Paintings and Sculpture, specialising in period portraiture. Member BADA, LAPADA.
Isherwood Fine Art is also an antique trade association member of LAPADA BADA
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