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Especial interest in the exhibition of etchings by Rembrandt being held at the Fogg Art Museum is being aroused by the fact that A. M. Hind, Slade Professor at Oxford University, who has come to Harvard as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will deliver a series of lectures on Rembrandt. The first of these lectures will be given in the Fogg Museum Wednesday evening. November 12, at 8 o'clock...
Professor Hind will deliver eight Norton lectures as well as a group of subsidiary ones to be announced later in the large lecture room of Fogg Art Museum. The Norton lectures will be entirely on the works of Rembrandt, and will include a study of his school and the history of his works. Four lectures will be given in the first half year, and four during the second...
Following are the subjects for the lectures, which commence at 8 o'clock: November 12, Introductory; November 19. Rembrandt's School; December 3 and 10, Histories; February 4 and 11, Portraits of Rembrandt; February 18, Landscapes; February 25, Conclusion...
...connection with these lectures, an exhibition of etchings by Rembrandt is now being held in the Fogg Art Museum...
...life history of Rembrandt is obscure and conjectural. It is known that he was born in 1606, son of a Leyden miller, that he studied only briefly. He married the rich Saskia van Ulenburgh, and after her death took his servant Hendrikje Stoffels as mistress. He enjoyed popular favor for a time, but lost it when his Night Watch heartily displeased the members of the Banning Cock guard, who had paid for their portraits, not for a dramatic episode. Bankruptcy followed plenty. He died in disgrace and poverty. In addition to many miraculous etchings, there are hundreds of paintings signed...