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    Rembrandt
    Rembrandt
    Rembrandt
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    Rembrandt

    By Jozef Israëls

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Rembrandt - Jozef Israëls

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Rembrandt, by Josef Israels

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Rembrandt

      Author: Josef Israels

      Release Date: February 16, 2007 [EBook #20607]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REMBRANDT ***

      Produced by Chrome, Michael Ciesielski, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY

      T. LEMAN HARE

      Others in Preparation.

      PLATE 1--SUZANNA VAN COLLEN

      This portrait, painted about 1633, and one of the gems of the Wallace Collection, presents Susanna van Collen, wife of Jan Pellicorne, and her daughter.

      Rembrandt

      BY JOSEF ISRAELS

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      The plates are printed by Bemrose Dalziel, Ltd., Watford

      The text at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      INTRODUCTION

      While the world pays respectful tribute to Rembrandt the artist, it has been compelled to wait until comparatively recent years for some small measure of reliable information concerning Rembrandt the man. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem to have been very little concerned with personalities. A man was judged by his work which appealed, if it were good enough, to an ever-increasing circle. There were no newspapers to record his doings and, if he chanced to be an artist, it was nobody's business to set down the details of his life. Sometimes a diarist chanced to pass by and to jot down a little gossip, quite unconscious of the fact that it would serve to stimulate generations yet unborn, but, for the most part, artists who did great work in a retiring fashion and were not honoured by courts and princes as Rubens was, passed from the scene of their labours with all the details of their sojourn unrecorded.

      Rembrandt was fated to suffer more than mere neglect, for he seems to have been a light-hearted, headstrong, extravagant man, with no capacity for business. He had not even the supreme quality, associated in doggerel with Dutchmen, of giving too little and asking too much. Consequently, when he died poor and enfeebled, in years when his collection of works of fine art had been sold

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