Rembrandt
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606 - 1669
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn was born in Leyden on 15 July 1606, and died in Amsterdam on 4 October 1669. Briefly at Leyden University, the young painter was first apprenticed to Jacob Isaacsz. van Swanenburgh of Leyden for about three years and then to Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam for some six months. He worked in independently in Leyden beginning c. 1625 and moved to Amsterdam c. 1632. Closely associated with Jan Lievens in the 1620s, Rembrandt began to have students, and was, throughout his lifetime, highly influential as a teacher. For the next few years he was much sought after as a portrait painter and accumulated a great collection of European and Far Eastern art. In the later 1630s he began painting large-scale Biblical and Classical subjects. Although there are fewer commissioned portraits from the artist's later years, he was always much esteemed as a great master of that genre. Splendid group portraits, landscapes, and allegorical subjects were painted by the prolific artist who also produced innumerable drawings and many etchings. Despite the diminishing interest of fashionable circles in his art, Rembrandt retained a faithful following of distinguished patrons. His bankruptcy in 1656 did not affect his productivity. Rembrandt combined the Italianate art of Lastman, Rubens, and other with a fresh, penetrating vision to produce a new apprehension of reality.
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