Nicolaes maes biography of albert einstein
NICOLAES MAES (DUTCH ) PORTRAIT OF COLONEL RUPERT BRIDGE IN ARMOUR, WITH A BLACK PAGEBOYOil on canvas x 97c.!
Nicolaes Maes is an example of a Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) 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 1654, and in the warm tones of the genre pieces he painted until 1658. 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 1634, the second son of Gerrit Maes (d.
This lavishly illustrated book, containing essays by some of the world's leading scholars on seventeenth-century Dutch art, is the first critical review.
1684) of Ravestein and Ida Herman Claesdr (d. 1681). 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 1648, he was also described as a soap boiler, which was the profession of his eldest so