# Portrait of a Gentleman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MAES, Nicolaes]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm ## Commentary The present portrait shows a confident young man, three-quarter length, in a brown tunic with a red cloak in a wooded landscape, at sunset. Maes's portraits of this period clearly favour red, gold, brown, ochre and russet tones, all of which were very much in vogue towards the end of the seventeenth century. He is clearly influenced by the paintings of Sir Anthony van Dyke who decades earlier mastered the skill of portraying his subjects with casual elegance and timeless grace by generalising dress details and focusing on the lustre and richness of the fabrics. ## Related artworks - [A Woman Spinning]() - [Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael]() - [Admiral Jacob Binkes]() - [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]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()