. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. her ofwhich, however, has hebeen very careful to pre-serve the likeness. GerardDou, on the other hand,has drawn her with all hisaccustomed precision : insix of his pictures at leastwe recognise the old ladyat a glance. One of theseis in the Louvre, theReading Woman (No. 2 3 5 6in the new Catalogue) ;two in the DresdenMuseum (Kos. 1719 and1720); another at Berlin (No. 847); a fifth in the SchwerinMuseum (No. 326), the Woman with the Spinning-iuheel; and thelast, of which we shall have more to say presently, in the CasselMuseum (No. 234). Bearing i
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. her ofwhich, however, has hebeen very careful to pre-serve the likeness. GerardDou, on the other hand,has drawn her with all hisaccustomed precision : insix of his pictures at leastwe recognise the old ladyat a glance. One of theseis in the Louvre, theReading Woman (No. 2 3 5 6in the new Catalogue) ;two in the DresdenMuseum (Kos. 1719 and1720); another at Berlin (No. 847); a fifth in the SchwerinMuseum (No. 326), the Woman with the Spinning-iuheel; and thelast, of which we shall have more to say presently, in the CasselMuseum (No. 234). Bearing in mind Rembrandts practice of taking his modelsfrom members of the household, we naturally look for numerous por-traits of his father among his works. But down to the present timetheir identification has been based merely on hypotheses more or lessplausible. Not long ago, Mr. Middleton-Wake, who has made a special studyof Rembrandts etched work, gave it as his opinion that Rembrandtsfather was probably the original of the Old Man luitli a long. KEMBRANDT S FATHER. (Mr. Chamberlain, of Brighton.)
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