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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Using vigorous lines Rembrandt has drawn a corpulent man leaning across a table-top with his arms crossed. The man's floppy hat tilts forward slightly, casting a shadow onto his podgy face. Rembrandt used brown gallnut ink...

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Rembrandt Van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

The man portrayed here, Dr Ephraim Bueno (1599-1665), was a well-known Jewish physician and man of letters. Rembrandt painted this sketch in oils in 1647. It is a preliminary study for an etching of Dr Bueno. It is the only known sketch in oils for a...

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Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642)

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

Artist Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Year 1633 Rembrandt painted this portrait of Saskia Uylenburgh in 1633. She was twenty years old at the time and had just become engaged to Rembrandt. They were married a year later. Saskia was the niece of the art...

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The Jewish bride by Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

An elegantly dressed man and woman are in a vague, dark room. The man has lovingly placed his arm around the woman's shoulder and a hand on her breast. Very carefully she touches his hand with her fingertips. Both are staring straight ahead, they seem...

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Rembrandt Self Portrait

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

ArtistRembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Rembrandt was about 22 when he drew this self portrait. The manner in which it is drawn is loose and sketch-like. His characteristic features, the unkempt head of curly hair, the wide nose and faint moustache, are accurately...

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The Holy Family in the Carpenter's Workshop c. 1645

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

Rembrandt Van Rijn ( 1606 - 1669 ) Pen and brown ink with brown wash, touched with white, 184x246mm

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An Elephant c.1637 by Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn

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Self Portrait with Mouth open C. 1628-9

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

Pen and brown ink with grey wash, 127x95mm Born to a family of millers in Leiden, Rembrandt left university at 14 to pursue a career as an artist. The decision turned out to be a good one since after serving his apprenticeship in Amsterdam he was singled...

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A young women sleeping

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Brush and brown wash with some white bodycolour, 246x203mm

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The artist drawing from a model

Rembrandt van Rijn

By MMaxi

Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)Pen and brown iron-gall ink, on paperwashed brown, 188x164mm At The British Museum

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