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His privileged position in society is evident from his membership in the local civic guard, in which he reached the rank of lieutenant. Maes was in the same company as Jacobus Leveck —75 , his neighbor and fellow pupil of Rembrandt, who was an ensign during the same period. On 14 December , a document was signed in Dordrecht stating that Maes and his family had departed for Amsterdam.

His decision was likely prompted by the crisis gripping the art market at the time. As in so many cities of the Dutch Republic, market constraints had become increasingly palpable from the s on, reaching an absolute low in the Disaster Year of However, he held on to his house in the Steegoversloot, suggesting he was not entirely convinced of lasting success.

These were mostly executed in two standardised formats: the first used a small rectangular canvas to depict a half-length figure within a painted oval in a while the second used on a larger format to depict a three-quarter-length figure, who would be leaning against a prop such as a column, fountain or rock. The setting was often a terrace or garden against a sunset sky.

He also created many group portraits of families or just children shown at full length amidst a landscape. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Dutch painter — Self-portrait c. Dordrecht , Dutch Republic. Amsterdam , Dutch Republic.

Life [ edit ]. Works [ edit ]. Biblical and mythological scenes [ edit ]. Genre painting [ edit ]. Portrait painting [ edit ]. Selected works [ edit ]. Notes [ edit ]. Nicolaes Maes. In The Leiden Collection Catalogue. Edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Further reading [ edit ]. About drawings by Maes have survived, making him one of the few outstanding Dutch genre painters of his generation whose practice as a draughtsman can be partially reconstructed.

For the compositional projects Maes used a variety of media: red chalk, pen and ink and combinations of chalk and wash or ink and wash. Most are cursory sketches, for example the study in pen and wash Berlin, Kupferstichkab. The figure studies also exhibit a wide variety of media and techniques. They range from spare contours delineated with the pen or brush to exquisitely refined studies in red chalk e.

A contract of records that Maes acquired a house from Job Cuijter in exchange for a cash payment and the portrait of Cuijter with his family. During his last years in Dordrecht and during his Amsterdam period, Maes continued to work for a varied clientele at the highest social levels, including the Utrecht University professor of theology Gijsbert Voet; the preacher Cornelis Trigland; Hieronymus van Beverningk, Treasurer-General of the United Provinces, diplomat and one time close confidant of Johan de Witt; the Amsterdam burgomaster Gerrit Hendriksz.

Hooft and the Lieutenant-Admiral of Zeeland.