Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . Printed by Draeger & Lesieur Paris THE SWANENBURCHS 13 Drapers The four best represent various opérations inthe manufacture of woollen goods. Their frank painting andvigorous colour recall the robust realism of Pieter Aertsen. Butit must be confessed that the works of Rembrandts master werevery inferior. Jacob van Swanenburch was born about 1580, and is supposedto have received his first lessons in painting from his father. By1610 he must have beenwell known, for in thatyear he painted an over-mantel for the Town-hall of Leyden with thesubjec
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . Printed by Draeger & Lesieur Paris THE SWANENBURCHS 13 Drapers The four best represent various opérations inthe manufacture of woollen goods. Their frank painting andvigorous colour recall the robust realism of Pieter Aertsen. Butit must be confessed that the works of Rembrandts master werevery inferior. Jacob van Swanenburch was born about 1580, and is supposedto have received his first lessons in painting from his father. By1610 he must have beenwell known, for in thatyear he painted an over-mantel for the Town-hall of Leyden with thesubject Pharaoh and hisHost drowned in the RedSea, an allusion, no. doubt, to the catastrophethat overwhelmed theSpaniards towards theend of the siege ofLeyden. The picturewas probably unimport-ant ; it disappeared in1666, and no traces ofit are discoverable. Thesame fate befell mostof the artists works ; theonly one now extant isa Papal Procession inthe Square of S. Peter s at Rome, dated 1628, and signed Iacomo Swanenburch. Borne on thestream of emigration which carried so many of his brother artists toItaly at that period, he had sojourned there from 1614 to 1617, and hadeven taken a wife at Naples. After his return to his native town,where he remained till his death (October 17, 1638) he lived inhigh repute among his fellow-citizens, less perhaps by reason of1 These pictures are now in the Leyden Museum, TOWN-HALL OF LEYDEN. (Drawing by Boudier, after a photograph.) i4 REMBRANDT his talents than of the prestige of his family. His artistic capacity-was indeed extremely limited, to judge by the said Papal Procession,now in the Copenhagen Gallery. It
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