Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benci, a 15th century nobleman's wife. The seller was Prince Franz Josef II, head of tiny (61 sq. mi.) Liechtenstein, tucked snugly between Austria and Switzerland. Price: an estimated $5,000,000, more than twice the previous record of $2,300,000, paid in 1961 for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. And while the National Gallery refused to identify the private donors who had put up the sum, it was an open secret that the principal ones were the gallery's president, Multimillionaire Paul Mellon...
...length oils; James specialized in precise but ethereal miniatures. Then James's younger daughter, Miriam, came along to become the U.S.'s first professional woman painter. Six of Charles Willson's children died in infancy, but among the survivors, ambitiously christened for the Renaissance greats, were Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian and Raphaelle. Both Rembrandt and Raphaelle went into the family business. Rembrandt traveled extensively in Europe, acquiring a glossy, Continental technique, became highly successful and portrayed the likes of Dolley Madison and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Raphaelle, a seeming failure, had drunk himself to death...
Cheerful & Talented. Though their styles differed, the Peales shared a common delight in painting one another. Husbands painted wives, daughters did fathers, nephews did uncles, everyone did in-laws. Charles Willson Peale painted one picture of James studying a miniature done by James's daughter Anna of Rembrandt's daughter Rosalba (herself a landscapist). He did another of James at work, probably on the portrait of his first wife Rachel, in miniature. "There was a happy cheerfulness in their countenances," observed old John Adams, viewing an early portrait by C. W. Peale of his family...
...influences on Dutch painting in the seventeenth century came from the South via engravings and etchings; these are not included in the special exhibition. However, at the Fenway entrance on the first floor, the museum has arranged a display of prints, from its own collection, in conjunction with the Rembrandt exhibition. The print show contains late Mannerist engravings by Goltzius and others, as well as a variety of genre works, portraits, landscapes, and several Rembrandt etchings. Rembrandt's genius is more adequately shown in these prints than in the paintings upstairs...
...print collection shows Rembrandt as a genre painter and portraitist, a landscape artist, a painter of biblical, mythological, and historical scenes, and it even contains Rembrandt still lifes. The great range and mastery revealed in these etchings accounts for Rembrandt's reputation as the master of print-making. The etching of Rembrandt's Mother, one of the best prints on display, demonstrates the scribbling, playful quality of line in Rembrandt's early etchings, as well as his superb control. In short, the print galleries are a necessary stop for the edified but somewhat disappointed gallerygoer who has just seen...