Portrait of Wijnand Everwijn (1648-1700)

Portrait of Wijnand Everwijn from 1675 by Nicolaes Maes depicts an identified member of the Dutch elite. Such documented portraits help establish the chronology of Maes's portrait production and the social range of his clientele. 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 brushwork and warmer flesh tones that satisfied the de...

The identified portrait demonstrates Maes's characteristic technique of precise facial modeling combined with confident costume painting.