. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. STUDY FOR TfiE POKTRAIT OF J. C. SYLVIUS. Icn drawing (British Museum). of i6d6 (B. 2S0), executed eight years after the ministers death,he used a drawing made in Sylvius life-time, and also a sketch(in the British Museum) in which, with a few hasty strokes, hedecided upon the arrangement of the figure. Saskias cousin isrepresented full face. He turns over the leaves of a book with PORTRAIT OF CORXELISZ SYLVIUS 273 his left hand ; his right is outstretched as if to emphasise a solemn. CutuJ a^rcLn^wrnSfociLct CFiicanIia. (ja njhint, jLt funiultJ
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. STUDY FOR TfiE POKTRAIT OF J. C. SYLVIUS. Icn drawing (British Museum). of i6d6 (B. 2S0), executed eight years after the ministers death,he used a drawing made in Sylvius life-time, and also a sketch(in the British Museum) in which, with a few hasty strokes, hedecided upon the arrangement of the figure. Saskias cousin isrepresented full face. He turns over the leaves of a book with PORTRAIT OF CORXELISZ SYLVIUS 273 his left hand ; his right is outstretched as if to emphasise a solemn. CutuJ a^rcLn^wrnSfociLct CFiicanIia. (ja njhint, jLt funiultJ lyt^rttni na/rbkt: tuL ajrra. Tna.(rv,Jxlu cr:ti Syii^vptuus. ^^LiruLj u/icnv ^^c ^rdtij p. ncccii fx vtdct y, p^ctaj ^. ,^uu TLrhttiltu. xfxu . Sic y^tti mcutyri^ d,^cri ^yiiijMj. ./ij mealier cxtiadi .ffiu condidtt uriKm.^((.-ril-iu. lLuncy:j(f/uljjt- tlLi^ ^^^ ^ULuJ iimntiuj vtfir^Jico i/uuj siHt-J,Quoj jiKuL^r. puj (TJ^juj rurjecucr rcrjw JAN CORNRLISZ 1646 (H. aSo). declaration of faith. Aroimd the oval enframing the bust is aninscription, giving the dates of Sylvius birth and death, and a list 274 REMBRANDT of his various pastorates. Some Latin verses by Van Baerle andScriverius printed below proclaim his virtues, and attest the holinessof his life and his entire devotion to his ministerial office. Wemay therefore conclude that the print was a pious souvenir, executedfor the friends of the good minister, and those he had convertedby his preaching, or edifi
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