Portrait of Francisco Lopes Suasso as a Young Man

Nicolaes Maes

ca. 1677

Image

Portrait painting of man dressed in beribboned robe, standing with one arm resting on a table covered with cloth, next to thick curtains. — Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710) was a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage. In 1688, he lent Prince William of Orange two million guilders, enabling him to invade England and assume the throne there, where he became King William III. In this portrait by Rembrandt’s pupil, the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes, Suasso appears as a young man in his twenties, dressed in lavish and colorful attire in a rich interior.

Credits

Courtesy Amsterdam Museum.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

Responsum: On a Dispute over a Shipment of Wax

Question: The following incident occurred in Rhodes: Reuben purchased 530 okes of wax from Simeon via a third party. Reuben did not take this wax into his possession; rather, as soon as he bought it…

View Source

Abstract painting of circles in a spiral.

Symphonie Vitale

Like most of Henry Valensi’s other “Symphony” paintings, Symphonie Vitale does not refer to a specific piece of music, but instead reflects the principles of Musicalism, the art movement founded by…

View Source

Painting of boy seated next to a stove studying a book.

A Difficult Passage in the Talmud

A Difficult Passage in the Talmud is one of the many scenes of Jewish life in Hungary, Moravia, Slovakia, Galicia, Ukraine, and Russian Poland that Isidor Kaufmann was best known for. His idyllic…

View Source

Engage with this Source

Creator Bio

Nicolaes Maes was a Dutch painter who studied under Rembrandt. He first specialized in painting domestic scenes featuring women and children, but later turned to portraiture and developed his own style, with a palette of lighter colors than those favored by his teacher. He became a successful and sought-after portrait painter in Amsterdam.

Details

Public Access

Image