See also: List of paintings by Rembrandt, List of etchings by Rembrandt, andList of drawings by Rembrandt In a letter to Huygens, Rembrandt offered the only surviving explanation of what he sought to achieve through his art: the greatest and most natural movement, translated from de meeste en...
Most Dutch artists specialized in specific genres such as portraiture, landscapes, still life or history paintings. Rembrandt stood apart from his contemporaries as he embraced most of these subjects, but their prevailing mood was always filtered through a sensitivity that acknowledged the flaws and ...
Having been examined in 1971 by Dr. Simon Levie and Professor Joshua Bruyn, then members of the Rembrandt Research Project, the present lot was included as no. A 63 in volume II of the Project'sCorpus of Rembrandt Paintings, published in 1986. The Project's assessment of the painting was ...
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 ...
(1825) JohnTrumbullas president of the American Academy of Fine Arts. A clever lithographer, he also lectured on natural history and wrote several books. Examples of his portraits of Washington and other famous personages may be seen at the New-York Historical Society; Independence Hall, ...
is an important lesson in this for us:Don’t just tell the facts, tell the story.Rembrandt’s portrait paintings became famous because of their unique consideration of the context surrounding the individual. Context tells a story and Rembrandt understood the power of story in his paintings. ...
It was during Rembrandt's Leiden period (1625–1631) that Lastman's influence was most prominent. It is also likely that at this time Lievens had a strong impact on his work as well.[51] Paintings were rather small, but rich in details (for example, in costumes and jewelry). Religious...
At the auction of the collection of Jan Basse on 9–30 March 1637 most expensive item was a ‘konstboeck van Lukas’ (an album by Lucas) for 637 guilders and 10 stuivers. StraussDoc., 1637/2. This costly book was bought by Rembrandt’s pupil Leendert van Beyeren. Paintings by livin...