. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. al the actual stateof his exchequer. Thysz,patient as he was, con-sidered that thirteenyears was as long as hecould reasonably be ex-pected to wait for hismoney. He thereforesuggested that Rem-brandt should either dis-charge the debt or giveup the house. This lastalternative was not at allto the painters taste,and he seems now tohave made some effortto appease his creditor,for on March 28 follow-ing he gave a power ofattorney, duly attested byhis two pupils, Heyman Dullaert and Johan Hindrichsen, to oneFrans de Coster, empowering him to collect a
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. al the actual stateof his exchequer. Thysz,patient as he was, con-sidered that thirteenyears was as long as hecould reasonably be ex-pected to wait for hismoney. He thereforesuggested that Rem-brandt should either dis-charge the debt or giveup the house. This lastalternative was not at allto the painters taste,and he seems now tohave made some effortto appease his creditor,for on March 28 follow-ing he gave a power ofattorney, duly attested byhis two pupils, Heyman Dullaert and Johan Hindrichsen, to oneFrans de Coster, empowering him to collect aM moneys due to total, however, seems to have been insufficient, or perhapsRembrandt applied it to some other purpose. However this may be, it appears that in September, 1653,anxious to discharge his debt to Thysz, he borrowed 8,400 florinsfrom the councillor C. Witsen, and the merchant Isaac van Hcrts-beek. The lenders formally protected their claims, by making adeclaration of the loan before the court of Echcviu;, Witsen certifying Y. ULATE DECLARKS THK INNOCENXE OF JESUS. (Stockholm Print Room.) 322 REMBRANDT his share as 4,180 florins, on January 29, 1653, ^^n Hertsbeek hisas 4,200 florins, on March 14 following. But Rembrandt, with hisusual nonchalance in such matters, retained a portion of the sum thusraised. He was probably short of money for other purposes, and anao-reement was made with Thysz, by which the latter received partpayment of his debt, with a n^iortgage on the house to the value of1,170 in discharge of the balance. Witsen and Van Hertsbeekconsidered themselves to have established a primary claim onRembrandts estate by the steps they had taken for their security ;but their position in the matter proved to be less clearly defined thanthey had supposed. Saskia, as we know, had left all her property in her husbandshands, and, confident of his rectitude, had even specially enjoinedthat the usual formalities should be dispensed with, and that nostatement o
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