. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ter local colour. It seems even more probablethat he now acquired various pictures by living masters of in his inventory we shall find three works by J. Pynas, a grisailleby Simon de Vlieger, several landscapes by Jan Percellis, who hadlately retired to Soeterwoede, near Leyden, where he died soonafterwards (1633), and a sea-piece by Percelliss brother-in-law, Anthonissen. Such pictures were of no great value, and it waspossible to buy them for a few florins, either from the dealers orat public auction. Rembrandt perhaps had frie
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ter local colour. It seems even more probablethat he now acquired various pictures by living masters of in his inventory we shall find three works by J. Pynas, a grisailleby Simon de Vlieger, several landscapes by Jan Percellis, who hadlately retired to Soeterwoede, near Leyden, where he died soonafterwards (1633), and a sea-piece by Percelliss brother-in-law, Anthonissen. Such pictures were of no great value, and it waspossible to buy them for a few florins, either from the dealers orat public auction. Rembrandt perhaps had friends among theseartists. He may also have made the acquaintance of a landscape-painter more famous than any of these, one who may well haveattracted him by a sincerity equal to his own, and a kindred pre-occupation with the problems of chiaroscuro. \^an Goycn paid avisit to Leyden in 1631, and is very likely to have met his youngconfrere in the Swanenburch circle, having been himself the pu]>;lof Isaac, the father of Rembrandts first C:.I> MAN WITH A LONG UEAKU. 1631 (U. a6o).
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