Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606–1669
Born in Leiden; died in Amsterdam.
Rembrandt trained in Leiden and Amsterdam, settled in Amsterdam in the early 1630s and became the city’s most sought-after portraitist. His later work grows rougher and more searching, with thick paint, deep shadow and faces that seem lost in thought, as in Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, painted for a Sicilian collector. He was also the leading etcher of his age, reworking plates through many states and making the medium as expressive as painting.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 14 worksDated 1625–1669
- Mostly
- Prints, Painting
- Movement
- Dutch Golden AgeSeventeenth-century painting from the Dutch Republic: still lifes, interiors, portraits and flat, wide skies.
The works
