Nicolaes Maes family name Maes
Life
Nicolaes Maes was born in Dordrecht as the second son of Gerrit Maes, a prosperous cloth merchant and soap boiler, and Ida Herman Claesdr.  
He initially trained with a mediocre painter in his hometown.  Around 1648, he went to Amsterdam, where he entered Rembrandt's studio.  He remained in the studio of Rembrandt for about five years.  He had returned to Dordrecht by December 1653.  Here he is recorded making marriage arrangements as he posted on 28 December 1653 the bans of his marriage with Adriana Brouwers, the widow of the preacher Arnoldus de Gelder.
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