Word: uylenborch
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...brocades, on good living and on the paintings of his contemporaries. He frequently opened the bidding with a price three times what any Dutch burgher ever paid for a picture, to "raise the prices for paintings in Amsterdam." But he moved from the house of his dealer, van Uylenborch, to a canal-side warehouse where he could paint, on the side, sagging old women, ghetto characters, Biblical allegories...
...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...
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