Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . Lievens wasmuch appreciated by hiscontemporaries, and wascelebrated by variouspoets of his day. In1640 the corporationcommissioned him topaint a Continence ofScipio at 1500 still retains its posi-tion above one of thefire-places in the TownHall. At the request ofPrince Frederick Henryswidow, he was also em-ployed on the decor-ations of the Huis tenBosch, near the these early successes, Lievens, like Rembrandt, ended his days inpoverty. He died a bankrupt, his goods having been previouslyseized and sold at auct
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . Lievens wasmuch appreciated by hiscontemporaries, and wascelebrated by variouspoets of his day. In1640 the corporationcommissioned him topaint a Continence ofScipio at 1500 still retains its posi-tion above one of thefire-places in the TownHall. At the request ofPrince Frederick Henryswidow, he was also em-ployed on the decor-ations of the Huis tenBosch, near the these early successes, Lievens, like Rembrandt, ended his days inpoverty. He died a bankrupt, his goods having been previouslyseized and sold at auction by his creditors. Gerard Dou, on the other hand, had now achieved a popularitythat years only tended to increase. The demand for his works grewsteadily, and they fetched correspondingly high prices, the attractionlying less in their actual merit than in the marvellous finish to which 1 Five of Lievens works are included in the inventory of Rembrandts effects—a Raising of Lazarus, two landscapes, a Hermit, and an Abraham*s STUDY IN BLACK CHALK. (King of Saxonys Collection.) 74 REMBRANDT he gradually inclined more and more. After the departure ofRembrandt, the passion for minute execution gained completemastery over his pupil, and Dou became the head of that school ofgenre-painters at Leyden, whose works, hard, dry, and insignificantas they were, enjoyed such extraordinary vogue. Left to himself,Van Vliets decline would have been even more signal than thatof Dou, but he followed Rembrandt to Amsterdam, where heexecuted a considerable number of plates from the masters these, which were doubtless carried out under Rembrandtsdirection, he shows a certain degree of talent, all traces of whichdisappear, however, when he works from his own designs. Hisoriginal plates are all disfigured by the violent contrasts, coarsedrawing, and vulgar expression which sufficiently explain the completeneglect of his works by modern connoisseurs. By quitting the home circl
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