. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ized,it is true, the opportunity of treating a new aspect of life, the elementsof which lay ready to his hand. He loved to vary his labours inthis fashion, to pass from some study undertaken for his improvement,to a carefully executed portrait, or a composition that stimulated hisimagination and his creative faculties. He sought repose in changeof occupation ; and though in other respects he was incapable ofdirecting or resisting the impulses of his ardent nature, he at leastnever failed to turn every successive phase of circumstance to accountin
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ized,it is true, the opportunity of treating a new aspect of life, the elementsof which lay ready to his hand. He loved to vary his labours inthis fashion, to pass from some study undertaken for his improvement,to a carefully executed portrait, or a composition that stimulated hisimagination and his creative faculties. He sought repose in changeof occupation ; and though in other respects he was incapable ofdirecting or resisting the impulses of his ardent nature, he at leastnever failed to turn every successive phase of circumstance to accountin the development of his art. The one point on which he showedhimself inflexible was in exacting respect for his working hours. Thiswas a matter in which he allowed no trifling. In the hey-day of hishappiness, as throughout the cruel sufferings that awaited him, heremained the laborious, indefati^jable craftsman, content with nothin--short of the highest achievement, and knowing no satisfaction greaterthan that of entire absorption in his THt CKlCIFlXliN. About 1634 (6. 8o)i
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