Nicholaes Maes (Dutch 1634-1693) Portrait of Josias... Lot 1237

Nicholaes Maes (Dutch 1634-1693) Portrait of Josias Ingelbrechts (1645-1685), three-quarter length, wearing a Japanese rok, laced shirt and lilac cloak, standing in a landscape; Portrait of Maria Reyniers (1654-1721), three-quarter length, wearing a red dress and pearl necklace and earrings, seated in a landscape A pair, the former signed Maes (lower right); the latter signed and dated Maes 1680 (lower right) Both oil on canvas 57.3 x 44cm; 22½ x 17¼in; 57.3 x 43.9cm 22½ x 17¼in (2) Provenance: Probably by descent to the sitter's son, Adriaan Ingelbrechts (b.1682), who married Sara Reyniersz van Tarelink in 1710; The Van Tarelink Collection; The Van Drogenhorst Collection; The Van Iddekinge Collection; J. van de Kasteele, The Hague; F. Muller, Amsterdam, Van Iddekinge van Drogenhorst Sale, 27 November 1906, lot 18, where purchased by Oppers (1000 florins); F. Muller, Amsterdam, 13 April 1920, lot 30, where purchased by a Spanish realtor (400 florins); F. Muller, Amsterdam, 6-8 December 1960, lot 141 (16,000 florins); Sotheby's, London, 29 November 1961, lot 104, to Fitzgerald (£1,450); Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1969, lot 101 (£3,100); Richard Green, London, 1970; The Power Collection; And by family descent Literature: Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch painters..., vol.VI (London, 1916), pp.529-530, nos.197&198; 'Maria', in Walther Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts (Munich 1979), no.768; Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol.III (Landau, 1983-1994), nos.1429&1430; León Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693) (Petersberg, 2000), p.327, nos.A225&A226 The present pair were painted the year before the sitters' marriage on 14 October 1681. Josias Ingelbrechts was a sugar factory owner (suikerraffinadeur) on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam.