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MAES, NICOLAS (1632-1693)

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MAES, See also:NICOLAS (1632-1693) , Dutch painter, was See also:born at See also:Dordrecht, and went about 165o to See also:Amsterdam, where he entered See also:Rembrandt's studio.- Before his return to Dordrecht in 1654 Maes painted a few Rembrandtesque genre pictures, with See also:life-See also:size figures and in a deep glowing See also:scheme of See also:colour, like the " See also:Reverie " at the Ryks Museum in Amsterdam, the " Card Players " at the See also:National See also:Gallery, and the " See also:Children with a See also:Goat See also:Carriage," belonging to Baroness N. de See also:Rothschild. So closely did his See also:early See also:style resemble that of Rembrandt, that the last-named picture, and other canvases in the See also:Leipzig and See also:Budapest galleries and in the collection of See also:Lord See also:Radnor, were or are still ascribed to Rembrandt. In his best See also:period, from 1655 to 1665, Maes devoted himself to domestic genre on a smaller See also:scale, retaining to a See also:great extent the magic of colour he had learnt from Rembrandt. Only on rare occasions did he treat scriptural subjects, as in the See also:earl of See also:Denbigh's " Hagar's Departure," which has been ascribed to Rembrandt. His favourite subjects were See also:women See also:spinning, or See also:reading the See also:Bible, or preparing a See also:meal. In 1665 he went to See also:Antwerp, where he remained till 1678, in which See also:year he probably returned to Amsterdam. His Antwerp period coincides with a See also:complete See also:change in style and subject. He devoted himself almost exclusively to See also:portraiture, and abandoned the intimacy and glowing colour harmonies of his earlier See also:work for a careless elegance which suggests the See also:influence of See also:Van Dyck. So great indeed was the change, that it gave rise to the theory of the existence of another Maes, of See also:Brussels. Maes is well represented at the National Gallery by five paintings: " The See also:Cradle," " The Dutch Housewife," " The Idle Servant," " The Card Players," and a See also:man's portrait. At Amsterdam, besides the splendid examples to be found at the Ryks Museum, is the " Inquisitive Servant " of the Six collection. At See also:Buckingham See also:Palace is " The Listening Girl " (repeti;.ions exist), and at Apsley See also:House " Selling See also:Milk " and " The Listener." Other notable examples are at the See also:Berlin, Brussels, St See also:Petersburg, the See also:Hague, See also:Frankfort, See also:Hanover and See also:Munich galleries.

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