. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. JAN VAN DE CAPELLE 295 which boasts many fine examples of his work, in the NationalGallery, and the great private, collections. He has all Willem vande Veldes knowledge with greater variety. His execution isbroader and less dry than that of his rival, his colour equally deli-cate, but richer, his illumination more justly diffused. Unlike thegenerality of his brethren. Van de Cappelle was a man of fortune, however, was derived, not from his art, but from somedye-works inherited from his father, which he, in his turn, bequeathedto his chi
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. JAN VAN DE CAPELLE 295 which boasts many fine examples of his work, in the NationalGallery, and the great private, collections. He has all Willem vande Veldes knowledge with greater variety. His execution isbroader and less dry than that of his rival, his colour equally deli-cate, but richer, his illumination more justly diffused. Unlike thegenerality of his brethren. Van de Cappelle was a man of fortune, however, was derived, not from his art, but from somedye-works inherited from his father, which he, in his turn, bequeathedto his children. He died January ist, 1680, leaving, according tothe inventory of his effects lately discovered by Dr. Bredius,. A WOMAN IN BED, ASLEEP. Pen drawing (Heseltine Collection). money to the value of 30,000 florins, a very considerable sum inthose days, a superb collection of two hundred pictures, and somethousands of drawings, among them five hundred by Rembrandt,which are classified according to their subjects as landscapes, historicalsubjects, and studies of womanhood and childhood. One hundredcome under the latter category. Among the pictures are several b\-Frans Hals and by Rembrandt, both of whom painted Van de Cappellesportrait. Of Rembrandts portrait all trace has been lost. It maypossibly be a picture in Lord Carlisles collection at Castle Howard,described by Dr. Bode^ as the j^ortrait of a friend or pupil of Rem-brandt, painted about 1648, the date of the portraits of Berchcm and ^ Ijodc, Sti/die/i, p. 49S. ag6 REMBRANDT Asselyn. The model is a young artist in a dark dress and high hat,holding an album of studies in his hand. We may close the list of those among Rembrandts scholars we haves
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