Word: rembrandt
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...gets bored with purely student pranks, there are always bigger and more professional jobs to concentrate on. In the spring of 1949, for instance, three strange things happened. Eighteen hundred pounds of lead and radioactive cobalt was stolen, three Rembrandt etchings valued at $11,000 were stolen and an alumnus disappeared. Kopliner retrieved the cobalt through the blood stains of the thief, but the etchings, along with $11,000 worth of stamps from Brown, and $11,000 worth of Aztec trinkets from Penn, are still missing. The alumnus turned up a year and a half later trapped in a sunken...
Time, helped by the eager brushes of varnishers and retouchers, has altered many a painting so that even its old master wouldn't know it. In 1946, restorers at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum disconcerted art lovers by cleaning up Rembrandt's famous Night Watch,* admired for generations because of its air of midnight mystery. Under decades of dust, soot and varnish was a picture painted in the clear morning light, filled with bright colors and contrasts. Last week The Hague's Mauritshuis displayed another cleaned-up Rembrandt masterpiece: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the Dutch...
Critics admitted that in at least one instance retouchers had improved on Rembrandt. Still struggling with problems of perspective, the young painter had done a poor job on Dr. Tulp's chair. A later painter had straightened it out. Strangest discovery of all: some retoucher, evidently not liking the look of Rembrandt's original signature, had covered it over with a carefully traced duplicate...
...Rembrandt left his group portrait of Captain Frans Banning Cocq's "shooting company" untitled. Later generations have referred to it by various titles; the Night Watch became common usage in the 19th Century...
Charley's cluttered waterfront scenes are a far cry from Vermeer's luminous View of Delft, her masklike portraits a long jump from Rembrandt. Nonetheless, Charley rightfully considers most of her painting "very Dutch," especially the group portraits where full-lipped, wide-eyed Hollanders stare thoughtfully into space as they might have from the paintings of the 17th Century masters. Like the old masters Charley admires most, she also does endless self-portraits. One of the outstanding pictures in her current show is Three Generations, a marble-cold,unflattering studio portrait of herself and her artist-son Edgar...