. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ,sculptors, and stone-carvers, and was himselfa chaser and engraverof considerable four plates he from busts of him-self, Vondel, Hooft [alter Tacitus), and his father, by the latter, areremarkable for their boldness of drawing and originality of year that Rembrandt etched his portrait of the elder Lutma,the son also produced a plate from the same model, in which heseems to have profited by some advice from the master, for the execu-tion is freer and richer than in his other works, and the two prints, 1 The pla
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ,sculptors, and stone-carvers, and was himselfa chaser and engraverof considerable four plates he from busts of him-self, Vondel, Hooft [alter Tacitus), and his father, by the latter, areremarkable for their boldness of drawing and originality of year that Rembrandt etched his portrait of the elder Lutma,the son also produced a plate from the same model, in which heseems to have profited by some advice from the master, for the execu-tion is freer and richer than in his other works, and the two prints, 1 The plate of Abraham Fransz passed /hro//^i;;h what was even an unusual numberof states—in itself I think, some evidence that though it has its intirest for us, t/ieprint never ivholly satisfied the 7naster. The modifcations cannot all have been made torepair the ravages of use, and, if the first conception 7Cas not perfect, the afterthoughtswere not all of them happy.—F. IV^. 2 These two portraits are now in Count Inniszcchs collection in SUIPOSED PORTRAIT OF FRANS BRUYNINGH. 1653 (Cassel Museum). 334 REMBRANDT though very unequal in merit, have a certain analogy. Rembrandtmust naturally have been attracted to a household where so manyof his own tastes obtained. In Lutmas portrait he once morecharacterises his sitter by accessories denoting his habits andoccupation. On the table beside him are a silver dish, a box ofgravers, and a hammer. The famous goldsmith, who wears a blackskull-cap and flowing gown, holds in his right hand a metal figure,probably his own work. In his keen eyes, intelligent features, andcomplacent smile, Rembrandt suggests, with no less truth than charm,the concentrated experience of a long life devoted to a much lovedart, and the legitimate satisfaction of a man whose wealth had beenwon by honourable toil. Rembrandts relations with the Lutmas belong, strictly speaking,to his more prosperous days. But two other portraits of this periodare closely asso
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