. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ted something of his amazes us by the originality of his combinations, but he no longermoves us as in familiar scenes better suited to his temperament. Theabsence of his characteristic merits emphasises his defects, hiseccentricities and vulgarities, his tendency to crowd his compositions 126 REMBRANDT with a bewildering mass of details. Yet his sincerity is unquestionable,and, as he says in the letter already quoted, he believed he had putinto these works as much of life and reality as possible. But suchqualities, which were indeed pecu
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ted something of his amazes us by the originality of his combinations, but he no longermoves us as in familiar scenes better suited to his temperament. Theabsence of his characteristic merits emphasises his defects, hiseccentricities and vulgarities, his tendency to crowd his compositions 126 REMBRANDT with a bewildering mass of details. Yet his sincerity is unquestionable,and, as he says in the letter already quoted, he believed he had putinto these works as much of life and reality as possible. But suchqualities, which were indeed peculiarly his own, are less apparent herethan in many earlier works. The time was to come when he wouldattain to them more absolutely, with infmitely less of eftbrt, preserv-ing all his reality, with an increasing mastery of the resourcesof a subject, and a fuller power of expressing its picturesque and itsemotional aspects. QfTofK -Tuft-^UljS?. # ^^P^^ /,/ ^•^x Jjffl|/| E^ m^k^hI ^t^^fc^ •• - ?? ^i»v REMBRANDT S MOTHER. 1633 (B. 351).. ; \ iJ#^i j, - »^ct^ I ?a -^.»/., PEN DRAWING, HEIGHTENED WITH SEPIA. (Heseltine Collection.) CHAPTER IX SASKIA VAN UYLEXEORCH AND HER FAMILY—REMBRANDT S PORTRAITS OF HER THE JEWISH bride—REMBRANDT MARRIES SASKIA (jUNE 22, 1634)—STUDIESAND PICTURES PAINTED FROM HER : THE ARTEMISIA IN THE PRADO, THEBURGOMASTER PANCRAS AND HIS WIFE, THE REMBRANDT AND SASKIA IN THEDRESDEN GALLERY—HIS INDUSTRY.
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