Nicolaes Maes. Dutch Master of the Golden Age

One of Rembrandt´s most talented students, Maes began by painting biblical scenes in the style of his famous teacher. He later produced extraordinary genre pieces, in which the closely observed actions of the main figure, often a woman, have a hushed, almost monumental character. Maes depicted mothers with children or older women praying or sleeping; such works have placed him among the most popular painters of the Dutch Golden Age.