. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. PEM DRAWING HEIGHTENED WITH WASH. (Duke of Devonshires Collection.) CHAPTER VIII REMBRANDTS GROWING SUCCESS AS A PORTRAIT-PAINTER—PORTRAITS PAINTED IN 1632 AND 1633 the SHIPBUILDER AND HIS WIFE MARTIN DAEY AND HIS wife—COMPOSITIONS OF THIS PERIOD: — ST. PETERS BOAT IN THE STORM ; THE PHILOSOPHERS —REMBRANDTS RELATIONS WITH HUYGENS—THE SERIES OF PIC-TURES ON THE PASSION PAINTED FOR PRINCE FREDERICK T HE success of the Anatoniy Lesson wasbrilliant. Rembrandts name, alreadywell known in Amsterdam, now becamefamous. His rank among the first l
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. PEM DRAWING HEIGHTENED WITH WASH. (Duke of Devonshires Collection.) CHAPTER VIII REMBRANDTS GROWING SUCCESS AS A PORTRAIT-PAINTER—PORTRAITS PAINTED IN 1632 AND 1633 the SHIPBUILDER AND HIS WIFE MARTIN DAEY AND HIS wife—COMPOSITIONS OF THIS PERIOD: — ST. PETERS BOAT IN THE STORM ; THE PHILOSOPHERS —REMBRANDTS RELATIONS WITH HUYGENS—THE SERIES OF PIC-TURES ON THE PASSION PAINTED FOR PRINCE FREDERICK T HE success of the Anatoniy Lesson wasbrilliant. Rembrandts name, alreadywell known in Amsterdam, now becamefamous. His rank among the first livingpainters was assured, and commissions flowedin rapidly. As Dr. Bode has remarked,^whereas in 1631 he painted only two or threeportraits besides the studies of himself and hisfamily, in 1632 he had ten in hand, and from1632 to 1634 at least forty. His mannerbecame broader, though he abated nothingof the sincerity and conscientious care thathad made his reputation. He enlarged withoutsubstantially altering his style. The execution of his first largecanvas had made him sensible of certain deficiencies in freedom andbreadth of conception and vigour of drawing. Taking his works in chronological order, we find several youngcouples among the painters clients. Occasionally the two portraits,though painted to form a pair, are separated from each other by sometwelve months ; either Rembrandts many commissions made itimpossible to finish both in the
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