. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. m^ ii LANDSCAlE WITH A RUINED TOWER. About 164S (B. 223). CHAPTER XVI PORTRAITS OF REMBRANDTS RELATIVES AND FRIENDS : JAN SYLVIUS, EPHRAIM BONUS, JAN SIX, COPPENOL, CLEMENT DE JONGHE REMBRANDTS INTIMATES AMONG THE LANDSCAPE-PAINTERS : CLAES BERCHEM, JAN ASSELVN, R. ROGHMAN,H. SEGHERS, JAN VAN DE CAPPELLE—STUDIES FROM NATURE—THE RUIX ANDTHE windmill—STUDIES OF ANIMALS—REMBRANDTS PUPILS AT THIS PERIOD—HIS METHOD OF R EMBRANDTS painted and engravedportraits of this period have a pecuHarinterest, as affording us an insightinto his friendsh
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. m^ ii LANDSCAlE WITH A RUINED TOWER. About 164S (B. 223). CHAPTER XVI PORTRAITS OF REMBRANDTS RELATIVES AND FRIENDS : JAN SYLVIUS, EPHRAIM BONUS, JAN SIX, COPPENOL, CLEMENT DE JONGHE REMBRANDTS INTIMATES AMONG THE LANDSCAPE-PAINTERS : CLAES BERCHEM, JAN ASSELVN, R. ROGHMAN,H. SEGHERS, JAN VAN DE CAPPELLE—STUDIES FROM NATURE—THE RUIX ANDTHE windmill—STUDIES OF ANIMALS—REMBRANDTS PUPILS AT THIS PERIOD—HIS METHOD OF R EMBRANDTS painted and engravedportraits of this period have a pecuHarinterest, as affording us an insightinto his friendships and course of Hfe. Oneof these, the portrait of an elderly man,dated 1650, which Dr. Bredius bought notlong since in England, he thinks may veryprobably represent Rembrandts brother,Adriaen, the quondam shoemaker, who tookover the mill after his fathers death. Theface, with its broad nose, vigorous features,and grizzled hair and moustache, is notunlike Rembrandts own. It figures inseveral other works by the master, as, forinstance, in the full face study of a head, engraved by Schmidt,in a study of a man in a helmet, which passed from Franceto America in 1S90, and in one of Rembrandts latest pictures,the U\-)rkers in the Vineyard of the Wallace collection.^ Theportrait is carried out in brown transparent glazes upon a 1 It has been suggested that the head of a man, one of several sketches on a singleplate (B. 370), among them a group of beggars etched in 1631
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