Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
PROPERTY OF THE LATE MRS. HAZEL WESTBURY (LOTS 117, 134, 167 & 169)
Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)

Portrait of Joseph Hoeufft, Heer van Lunenburg (1657-1700), half-length, in armour, his right arm resting on a helmet

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Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
Portrait of Joseph Hoeufft, Heer van Lunenburg (1657-1700), half-length, in armour, his right arm resting on a helmet
signed 'NMAES' ('NM' linked, lower left), and with the sitter's coat-of-arms (centre left)
oil on canvas
19¼ x 16 in. (48.4 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitter, Utrecht.
Mr. M. Crommelin, Utrecht, circa 1890-1905, and by descent to,
Mr. C.A. Crommelin, The Hague; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 6-14 May 1958, lot 113, as 'a portrait of Aernout Houefft'.
with D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, where acquired by the great-uncle of the following,
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady]; Sotheby’s, London, 9 December 2004, lot 134 (£12,000), when acquired by the late owner.
Literature
E. W. Moes, Iconographia Batavica, Amsterdam, 1897-1905, p. 429, no. 35702.2.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VI, London, 1916, pp. 527-8, no. 188.
L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), Bonn, 1999, p. 321, no. 190a, pl. 272, as 'circa 1677'.
Exhibited
The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, Winter 1890-1891, no. 48.

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