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...married his dealer's cousin, Saskia van Uylenborch, a gentle, kindly girl of excellent family with a dowry of 40,000 guilders (about $16,000). He bought a fine house in the ghetto, still preserved in Amsterdam as the Rembrandt-huis, and decked Saskia in diamonds and pearls. Because Rembrandt's success as a portrait painter was enormous, the Company of Captain Cocq knew of no better man to do their group portrait...
Imaginary Dr. Van Loon met Painter van Rijn when Rembrandt's first wife, Saskia, took her last illness. Though she died the men became cronies. Rembrandt's popularity as a portrait-painter had gone; his artistic experiments, his unconventionality, his debts had roused the commercial conscience of the burghers against him. But Van Loon recognized his genius, liked his character, helped him when he could, gave him good advice when he thought he ought to: notably when he noticed the unmarried pregnancy of Rembrandt's housekeeper, Hendrickje Stoffels. In spite of all, Rembrandt died in bankruptcy, Van Loon was "killed...
...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...
...collection, is to be left to the public. Mr. Widener has not yet stated whether the City of Philadelphia or the Metropolitan Museum, Manhat tan, is to be the recipient. The Rembrandts include the land scape, The Mill (said to have cost $500,000), Portrait of Saskia; Study of an Old Man; Portrait of Himself; The Philosopher; Head of an Aged Woman; The Apostle Paul; The Circumcision; Head of St. Matthew; Portrait of a Man with a Letter; Descent from the Crass (also reported to have cost $500,000). Two portraits in his collection (A Gentleman With High...
...Benjamin Altman in 1913, including the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, Pilate Washing His Hands, Toilet of Bathsheba, one of the many self-portraits of the artist, and portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's housekeeper, mistress and second wife, and of Titus, his son by his first wife, Saskia van Uylenburg. There are also the Man with a Beard and the Portrait of a Man, of the Marquand collection, the Oriental, given by Mr. Vanderbilt, and two portraits lent by J. P. Morgan. Practically all of these are signed " Rembrandt f." (abbreviation for fecit-made), with the dates, ranging...