Last 100 Years Painter : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.

Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardship. Yet his drawings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high and for twenty years he taught nearly every important Dutch painter. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. The self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.


There are some Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's painting :

The Martyrdom of St. Stephen. 1625. Oil on panel. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons, France.

The Ass of Balaam Talking before the Angel. 1626. Oil on panel. Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France.

Tobit and Anna. 1626. Oil on panel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Christ Drives Money-Changers from the Temple. 1626. Oil on panel. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.

St. Paul in Prison. 1627. Oil on panel. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

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