Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693)

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Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693)

Portrait of Anna Rees (born 1642), standing small full length on a terrace before a curtain, wearing a grey and white silk dress with lace collar, and with ribbons in her hair, holding a basket of roses and a medallion, picking a carnation with her left hand, the Grote Kerk, Dordrecht beyond

signed and dated lower right N. Maes.1652, and inscribed with the coat-of-arms of the sitter
oil on canvas
140 x 110 cm

Provenance

The sitter,
thence by descent to the present owner

Lot Essay

The sitter, daughter of François Rees and Katharina van Berge, married Jacob van Maerssen in 1660; after her husband died she remarried Samuel Beyer, pensionaris of the City of Rotterdam.

This is one of the earliest paintings by the artist, executed in Dordrecht shortly after his return from Amsterdam

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