Nicolaes Maes Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam

Mr. M. Crommelin, Utrecht;
M.C. Crommelin, The Hague, from whose Estate sold, Amsterdam, Muller, 6-14 May 1958, lot 113, reproduced in the catalogue (as a portrait of Aernout Houefft);
With D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, from whom acquired the same year by the great-uncle of the present owner.

Possibly The Hague, 1890, no. 48.

E. Moes, Iconographia Batava, Amsterdam 1897-1905, no. 3570.2;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné...., vol. VI, London 1916, pp. 527-8, no. 188;
L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), Bonn 1999, p. 321, cat. no. 190a, reproduced plate 272.

The sitter was the son of Jan Hoeufft and his wife Isabella Deutz. In 1699 Joseph married Constantia van Toll. This is one of a group of portraits of the Hoeufft children painted by Maes and listed by Hofstede de Groot. Krempel (see Literature) suggests that this portrait was a pendant to that of Jan's brother Jan Hieronymous Hoeufft, signed and dated 1677 and now in a private collection (op. cit., no. A190, fig. 271). Another portait has been identified as that of his sister Anna Maria (ibid., no. A53) but as this is signed and dated 1662 this seems implausible. Two further and slightly larger-scale portraits said to be of the two brothers, one of which is dated 1679, are also listed by Krempel (ibid., nos. A212 and A212a).