Nicolaes maes biography of alberta

Nicolaes Maes is an example of a Rembrandt van Rijn (–69) pupil who became disaffected with his master’s style relatively soon after completing his apprenticeship.

Rembrandt’s style resonates in Maes’s history paintings, in which he specialized until about , and in the warm tones of the genre pieces he painted until Thereafter Rembrandt’s influence faded, particularly, according to Arnold Houbraken, “more so when he began to concentrate on portraits and saw that young women in particular took more pleasure in white than in brown.”¹

Nicolaes Maes was born in Dordrecht in , the second son of Gerrit Maes (d.

Nicolaes maes biography of alberta

) of Ravestein and Ida Herman Claesdr (d. ). When Gerrit married, he moved into a house in the Voorstraat, Dordrecht, where he earned a living, and a certain degree of prosperity, as a cloth merchant. However, when he died in , he was also described as a soap boiler, which was the profession of his eldest son, Abraham.

Since Gerrit died