Portrait of a Woman, possibly Eva van Neck (1656-1704)

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Eva van Neck from 1680 by Nicolaes Maes is a tentatively identified portrait from his prolific Amsterdam period. The conditional identification reflects the scholarly challenges of connecting Maes's numerous female portraits to specific sitters. Maes trained with Rembrandt in Amsterdam in the early 1650s before establishing himself as an independent master. His mature portrait style absorbed Flemish elegance — producing fashionable likenesses with looser brushwor...

The portrait renders the sitter with Maes's consistent quality of naturalistic characterization combined with fashionable presentation.