. The art of the Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries . bjects as muchas 1,200 guilders. For the Night Watch hewas paid 1,600 guilders. In those years of hismarried life his annual income must have beenfrom 12,000 to 15,000 guilders, which would beequalled at the present day with 25,000 tO 30,000dollars. To this must be added Saskias dowry of40,000 guilders, and various legacies from hismother and from several of Saskias that he lived freely is show
. The art of the Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries . bjects as muchas 1,200 guilders. For the Night Watch hewas paid 1,600 guilders. In those years of hismarried life his annual income must have beenfrom 12,000 to 15,000 guilders, which would beequalled at the present day with 25,000 tO 30,000dollars. To this must be added Saskias dowry of40,000 guilders, and various legacies from hismother and from several of Saskias that he lived freely is shown when at Saskiasdeath, after eight years, their joint propertyamounted to only 40,750 guilders, his possessionsconsisting principally of jewelry, art objects, andcollections of drawing and engravings. The housein which they had moved on the St. Antonie Bree-straat^ was not paid for, and various sums of bor-rowed money, carelessly neglected by the artist for This house was acquired by the City of Amsterdam during thecelebration of the tercentenary of Rembrandt*s birth in 1906, andhas been restored to the condition it was in when Rembrandt occu-pied it, serving as a memorial
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