# Admiral Jacob Binkes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MAES, Nicolaes]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 44 x 33 cm ## Commentary The pendant portraits of Admiral Jacob Binkes and his fiancée Ingena Rotterdam were painted by Maes. The portraits commemorate the couple's engagement in 1676. Binkes was one of the most capable and courageous naval officers of the 1660s and 1670s. He sailed for the West Indies, shortly after the engagement, never to see the Netherlands or his fiancée again. He died in Tobago in December 1677. In 1685, Ingena Rotterdam married Pieter d'Orville in Amsterdam, and she died there in 1704. ## Related artworks - [A Woman Spinning]() - [Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael]() - [Apostle Thomas]() - [Christ before Pilate]() - [Christ Blessing the Children]() - [Eavesdropper with a Scolding Woman]() - [Ingena Rotterdam, Betrothed of Admiral Jacob Binkes]() - [Old Woman Dozing]() - [Old Woman Peeling Apples]() - [Old Woman Saying Grace]() - [Portrait of a Boy as Adonis]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()