Discover print artist, painter, draftsperson Dirk Maas

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: Maas, Dirck Carelsz.
Maas. Dirck
Maas, Theodore
Maes, Dirck
Maes, Dirk
Maes, Theodore

Monogram: DM

facximile in Von Wurzbach 1910

Qualifications: print artist, painter, draftsperson, staffage painter, art dealer (person)
Cornelis Dusart worked together with Dirk Maas in selling paintings at auctions (Biesboer/Köhler et al. 2006, p. 144-145). On April 25, 1718, Iz. van der Vinne in the Prinsenhof sold the estate of D. Maes, which shows that Maas owned paintings by Campodoglio, Th. Wijck, Wijnants, Berchheyde, Verbrugge, Poussin, Vermeer, Pijnacker, Ruisdael etc., prints by Italian, French and Dutch masters (Molhuysen/Blok 1933).

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Haarlem (city) 1656-09-12
born 12 September (Houbraken 1721) and baptized on 14 September 1656 (I. van Thiel-Stroman in Biesboer/Köhler et al. 2006)

Deceased: Haarlem (city) 1717-12-25
buried on 30 December in the Grote or St. Bavo Kerk

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of Carel Dircksz. Maas and Maycke Carelsdr. Bruynsteen. He married his first cousin Aletta van Vaerle on 6 July 1694 in the Walloon French Protestant Church (Waalse kerk) in Amsterdam; they had seven children, five of wich died in infancy. According to Biesboer/Köhler et al. 2006, p. 226: son of Carel Dircksz. Maas from Hoorn (died 1708) and his second wife, Geertruida van Vaerle (died 1674). His uncle, Johannes Dircksz Maas (1629-1699) also worked as a painter, living in Haarlem from 1659-1699. Another painter in Dirk’s family was his cousin Jan Pietersz Maas (1655-1690), also active in Haarlem.

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Haarlem (stad) 1675 - 1681
In 1678 he became a member of the Guild, although there is already dated work from 1675. On 10 October 1681 he became a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, still lived with his parents
Parijs 1684-03-08 - 1684
On 8 March 1684 he signed, together with Jan Maas, the register of the protestant cemetery Saints-Pères on the occasion of the burial their friend, engraver Michiel de Jager (Yager), aged 21, from Amsterdam (Piot 1873, p. 131)
Haarlem (stad)
Groot-Brittannië 1690 - 1691
He accompagnied King William III and his army.
Oldbridge (Ierland)
first-hand witness of the Battle of the Boyne, which he would paint and engrave.
Haarlem (stad) 1692-05 - 1694
back in Haarlem in May 1692, according to a testimony of Cornelis Dusart (Bredius 1915-1921, vol. 7, p. 53-55; Van Thiel-Stroman 2006)
Soestdijk (plaats) 1693
Amsterdam (stad) 1694-07-06 - 1694-09-06
marriage
Den Haag (stad) 1697
member of the Confrerie Pictura' on 16 March 1697 (Obreen), but kept living in Haarlem
Haarlem (stad) 1694 - 1717

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Berchem, Nicolaes
Huchtenburg, Jan van
Mommers, Hendrick
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Hugaerts, Willem
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Kobell, Wilhelm von
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Wootton, John

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: italianate, portrait, cityscape, still life, winter landscape, landscape (genre), forest still life, architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Literature

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p. 219, 362
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 2, p. 223-224
Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 4 (1860), p. 1031-1032
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 12, 1 (1869), p. 14 (as: Dirk Maas)
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 4, p. 110, 158
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 87-88
Bredius 1915-1921 , vol. 1, p. 30-32, 35, 42, 55, 58, 60, 63, 342 (?); vol. 4, p. 1239; vol. 6, p. 2215; vol. 7, p. 53-54
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 23 (1929), p. 544-545 (as: Maes, Dirk)
Molhuysen/Blok et al. 1911-1937 , vol. 9 (1933)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 211 (as: Maas, Dirk (Maes, Theodore))
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 404, 405, 439-44 (as: Maes, D.)
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 11 [1954], p. 149-152 (as: Dirk Maes)
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 186 (as: Maes or Maas, Dirk or Théodore)
Miedema 1980 , vol. 1, p. 334; vol. 2, p. 680, 749, 993, 941, 1034
Buijsen/Dumas et al. 1998 , p. 326
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998)
Kollmann 2000 , p. 238
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 136
Biesboer/Köhler et al. 2006 , p. 144 and 226-228 (I. van Thiel-Stroman, 'Dirck Carelsz Maas')
Saur 1992- , vol. 86 (2015), p. 85 (text: P. Bieboer)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

E. Piot, Etat civil de quelques artistes français, extraits des registres des paroisses des anciennes archives de la ville de Paris, Paris, 1873 (published before in : Le Cabinet de l’amateur, 3, nouvelle série, 1863, 33/34, p. 149-200)
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Ruim honderd advertenties van kunstverkopingen uit de Amsterdamsche Courant 1711-1725', Jaarboek Amstelodamum 69 (1977), p. 107-122; no. 185 (concerning the auction of his legacy)

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Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
Gerson Digital : France
Gerson Digital : United Kingdom

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Creation date: 1992-01-17; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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