. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ne of the Philoso-phej^s in the types of whichboth artists made use fortheir work with thegraver were : a vener-able-looking old woman(Rembrandt : B. and 358 to 360 ;Lievens: B. No. 55), anda man from whom Rem-brandt painted the phy-sician in his Death of the Viro-in (B. 305), and who also appears in aplate by Lievens (B. 50). The list might be further extended, but we have sufficiently shownhow numerous were the studies made in common. Among the bandof fellow-workers, Rembrandt and Lievens were the two whoseaffinities were s
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ne of the Philoso-phej^s in the types of whichboth artists made use fortheir work with thegraver were : a vener-able-looking old woman(Rembrandt : B. and 358 to 360 ;Lievens: B. No. 55), anda man from whom Rem-brandt painted the phy-sician in his Death of the Viro-in (B. 305), and who also appears in aplate by Lievens (B. 50). The list might be further extended, but we have sufficiently shownhow numerous were the studies made in common. Among the bandof fellow-workers, Rembrandt and Lievens were the two whoseaffinities were strongest. Both were studious, imaginative, bent onhigh achievements in their art. They had shown a like precocity, alike industry ; and Houbraken, whose testimony as to Rembrandtsardour we have already quoted, further records that Lievens, on hisreturn to his native city, set to work with such zeal and successthat connoisseurs were amazed at his talent. From a comparison ottheir works at this period, we learn that they not only worked together. REMnRANUTS FATIIEU. (Habich Collection, Cassel.) 3S REMBRANDT from the same model, but often treated the same subjects, each en-deavouring to solve the same problem of chiaroscuro or , in several studies of heads painted by Lievens at this time, wefind him drawing the hair or beard in the moist paint with the butt-endof the brush, after the manner of Rembrandt. Rembrandts relations with Gerard Dou had less of familiarity andequality. He was Dous senior, and his master ; the pupil listenedrespectfully to his instructions, inclining more and more, however, tothat minute finish which gradually became his chief in these early days he had not lost all breadth in his handling, andhe was a conscientious student of his craft. Van Vliet was greatlyinferior to all three. He was an engraver exclusively; and when heattempted to create, he showed an abnormal heaviness, vulgarity,inaccuracv, and lack of taste. He was a
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