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Portrait of a Lady

Nicolaes Maes (1634–1693)

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Portrait of a Lady

Image credit: The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

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The identity of this fashionably dressed woman posed in a landscape is not known. The costume and her hairstyle suggest a date from the mid-1670s, after Maes had moved to Amsterdam and when he took up painting society portraits. Maes had hitherto specialised in genre scenes painted in the style of Rembrandt whose pupil he was in the 1640s. The artist’s new elegant style was derived from the works of van Dyck which Maes saw on a trip to Antwerp in the late 1660s.

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Title

Portrait of a Lady

Date

probably mid-1670s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 113.6 x W 89.5 cm

Accession number

44.12

Acquisition method

purchased, 1944

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed: N MAES [the initials in monogram]

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University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TS England

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Nicolaes Maes

1634–1693

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