Word: rijn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearty, life-loving Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn had made himself a precocious reputation as the finest society portrait painter in rich, 17th-Century republican Amsterdam. A proud, flamboyant personality, he charged Amsterdam's solid burghers, soldiers and surgeons high prices for his solemn, cloudy canvases, married a woman of wealth, spent money like a drunken lord on paintings, prints, armor, tapestries and pearls. Some of the ruff-necked portraits Painter Rembrandt did during this early period were as prim and vapid as their complacent cheese-eating subjects. But on the side he prowled Amsterdam's ancient docksides...
...salons of Amsterdam had forgotten him. His paintings (now valued as high as $1,000,000 apiece) sold for as little as 6? and his passing was noted only by a handful of bearded ghetto Jews who hunched their shoulders and whispered among themselves that Rembrandt van Rijn had once been a great...