. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ^^yir^^m^V- A KOAD TlIl^OUGH A WOOD. Pen drawing (Duke of Devonshire). There are, however, documents which dispose of this had already a considerable vogue as a portrait-painter when,on the occasion of a visit to Antwerp, he was fascinated by theworks of Rubens and Van Dyck. He forthwith abandoned hisearly manner in favour of a lighter and gayer system of colouring,a looser and more fluent touch, and a meretricious grace and elegancethat delighted his wealthy patrons. A male portrait in the BrusselsMuseum (No. 2>33 i^ the Cata
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ^^yir^^m^V- A KOAD TlIl^OUGH A WOOD. Pen drawing (Duke of Devonshire). There are, however, documents which dispose of this had already a considerable vogue as a portrait-painter when,on the occasion of a visit to Antwerp, he was fascinated by theworks of Rubens and Van Dyck. He forthwith abandoned hisearly manner in favour of a lighter and gayer system of colouring,a looser and more fluent touch, and a meretricious grace and elegancethat delighted his wealthy patrons. A male portrait in the BrusselsMuseum (No. 2>33 i^ the Catalogue) seems to have been paintedin the period of transition from his early to his later manner. Wenote a premonitory jarring of the harmonies, purplish tones side byside with somewhat crude vermilions. The drawing is less firm,. ^ PHILIPS DE KOXIXCK 293 the handling tamer and less characteristic, and there are tracesof that triviality which becomes so marked in later works. The other pupil, Carel Fabritius, had his life been spared tofulfil the promise of his youth, might have won a place in the firstrank of Dutch painters. Born in 1624, he was killed in theflower of his age by the explosion of the powder-magazine atDelft, on October 12, 1654, while engaged on a portrait ofthe sacristan, Simon Decker. His evil fortune pursued him evenbeyond the grave, and his masterpiece, the fine portrait-group ofthe Van der Yin family, perished in the fire at the BoymansMuseum in Rotterdam. The rare examples of his art nowextant show how greatly he had profited by Rembrandts teach-ing. The study of a head in the Rotterdam Museum is a worknot easily forgotten. Its impressiveness is due in some measureto the peculiarity of the type, with its piercing eyes and longblack hair, but still more to the energetic character
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