Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . es a pair with her husband ; or the couple figure on the samecanvas, as if to attest the harmony of their union. In some instances the wholefamily clusters roundthe parents, the marriedsons and daughters withtheir partners, othersdrawing or making music,the younger children withtheir playthings. To com-plete the illusion, servantsare placed beside theirmasters, either in theusual sitting-room or ina landscape before thehouse. The compositionvaries in taste withthe painter, but thelikeness is always sin-cerely and conscientiouslystudied. Together wit
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . es a pair with her husband ; or the couple figure on the samecanvas, as if to attest the harmony of their union. In some instances the wholefamily clusters roundthe parents, the marriedsons and daughters withtheir partners, othersdrawing or making music,the younger children withtheir playthings. To com-plete the illusion, servantsare placed beside theirmasters, either in theusual sitting-room or ina landscape before thehouse. The compositionvaries in taste withthe painter, but thelikeness is always sin-cerely and conscientiouslystudied. Together with thesedomestic portraits, theimportant canvasespainted for the numer-ous guilds form as it were a series of official documents, illustrat-ing the history of the city, and preserving the memory of greatinstitutions, and famous men. Art patronage was now exercisedsolely by the guilds or private collectors. The demand forvotive pictures had passed away with the Catholic worship and itsclergy. The princes of the House of Orange were very luke-. STUDY OF AN OLD MAN. (King of Saxonys Collection.) CONDITION OF ARTISTS 93 warm protectors of the arts, and Frederick Henry was thefirst among them, to give some attention to the building, fur-nishing and decoration of his palaces. Even his artistic sympathieswere rather Flemish than Dutch, and the rich citizens and
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