Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . ilips de koninck, etc. his reputed avarice his tastes as a collector — purchase of a house in the breestraat—•rembrandts friends and domestic habits—etchings of saskia — the deathof rembrandts mother. REMBRANDTS talents, and the favourhe enjoyed at Amsterdam, had now-made him widely known. His etch-ings, which had been well received from thefirst, spread his fame not only throughout hisown country but in foreign lands, and manypupils came to seek instruction from do not think, however, that he receivedany into his studio in the very early day
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . ilips de koninck, etc. his reputed avarice his tastes as a collector — purchase of a house in the breestraat—•rembrandts friends and domestic habits—etchings of saskia — the deathof rembrandts mother. REMBRANDTS talents, and the favourhe enjoyed at Amsterdam, had now-made him widely known. His etch-ings, which had been well received from thefirst, spread his fame not only throughout hisown country but in foreign lands, and manypupils came to seek instruction from do not think, however, that he receivedany into his studio in the very early daysof his residence. He was then less ex-tensively known. Besides which, the ages of those who are found tohave been his first pupils sufficiently prove that they cannot havebecome Rembrandts apprentices till some few years after hisarrival. When he had rather more time at his disposal, he foundit impossible to refuse all of the many applicants for admission. He was at once the most fashionable portraitist and the most con-vol. i. x. UUST OF A MAN WITH CURLING HAIR,AND HIS UNDER-LIP THRUST OUT. About 1635 (B. 305). 242 REMBRANDT spicuous historical painter of the day. Various circumstances, aswe shall see, had combined with his superiority over his rivals tosecure his pre-eminence. We have already spoken of the fascination which drew so manyDutch painters to Italy. On their return these emigrants introducedthe taste for Biblical and mythological subjects, together with thatinterest in problems of chiaroscuro they had acquired in the cos-mopolitan colony of Caravaggios disciples. We need but quote thenames of Ribera at Naples, Valentin and Claude Lorraine inFrance, Elsheimer in Germany, and Honthorst in Holland, to provethat painters of all countries were busying themselves with re-searches bearing on the properties and effects of light. The band ofItalianisers who had preceded Rembrandt was gradually dwindlingand declining. The most famous of them—his master, Lastman
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