Maerten van Heemskerck, 1545 - Portrait of Machtelt Suijs - fine art print

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The work of art Portrait of Machtelt Suijs was painted by the northern renaissance painter Maerten van Heemskerck. The more than 470 year old original measures the exact dimensions: Framed: 107 x 97 x 8 cm (42 1/8 x 38 3/16 x 3 1/8 in); Unframed: 85 x 74 cm (33 7/16 x 29 1/8 in). Oil on wood was used by the European painter as the technique for the artpiece. Note on cradle appears on a notation in chalk (originally) slightly scratched faintly letters " Mr A.M.C [?] or K [?] Reyve" was the masterpiece's inscription. Nowadays, this artwork forms part of the art collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. The classic art public domain artpiece is being provided with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. : Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund. Moreover, alignment is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Maerten van Heemskerck was a painter of Dutch nationality, whose style can mainly be attributed to Northern Renaissance. The European painter lived for 76 years and was born in the year 1498 in Heemskerk, North Holland, Netherlands and deceased in the year 1574.

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Heemskerck lived in Rome for four years (1532-36) and was deeply affected by the city's art and antiquities. Here, the half-length, seated figure, the tense yet elegant hands, and even the grotesque classical mask reflect the impact of that experience, while the love of meticulously represented textures is traditionally associated with northern European art. Machtelt Suijs married Dirick van Teijlingen in 1535 and lived in Alkmaar (the Netherlands), where Heemskerck must have painted her. The coat-of-arms that hangs from the mask combines family emblems, indicating that her portrait must have been accompanied by one (now lost) of her husband.