Curiously enough, despite the large number of paintings and etchings signed with this modified first name, most of their documents that mentioned him during his lifetime retained the original "Rembrant" spelling
A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings Marieke De Winkel Part of the book series: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation ((RRSE,volume 4)) 1421 Accesses Abstract One of the most remarkable features of Rembrandt’s presentation of himself in his self-portraits is his attire, the diversity and ...
13 Within those same few years his fame spread, and Rembrandt was making paintings for clients in Amsterdam and The Hague. By 1633 he had decided to move to Amsterdam, where he would spend the rest of his life. Key works in The Leiden Collection from the 1620s and early 1630s shed ...
His religious paintings prior to that time generally adhered to the traditional representation of Jesus. The most obvious examples are his depictions, in 1630 and 1632, of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Even some of his later works, such as the painting Christ and the Woman Taken in ...