So Rubens paints his second wife Helena, Rembrandt uncovers the sensuality of his maid and lover, Hendrickje Stoffels, and Marc Chagall’s beloved wife Bella floats through his dreamscapes.

In the early 1660s Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, bleary-eyed and improvident, set up his easel to paint Hendrickje Stoffels as Juno, swathing her in paste jewels and the rich worn old velvets he ...

Out of this personal drama fought over Hendrickje's body, Rembrandt produces one of the most psychologically complex nudes ever made, filled with passion and heartbreak.

Utrecht is 45 miles from Amsterdam. Rembrandt didn’t travel often, but he seems to have made the journey to accompany his partner, Hendrickje Stoffels, to a baptism.

Hendrickje could not read or write but she apparently loved Rembrandt. After her first child, she was expelled from her church.

Rembrandt also suffered the deaths of his beloved first wife Saskia, then his partner Hendrickje, and finally his son Titus.

In an exclusive Canadian engagement through an outstanding loan from a prestigious Dutch museum, the Rembrandt. Etchings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen international exhibition of a scope ...

When she was displaced by a younger maid, Hendrickje Stoffels, Dircx was brave enough to sue the artist over an unfulfilled promise of marriage. The judges ruled in Geertje’s favor, but Rembrandt had ...

Johnson has said a small brown ink drawing by Rembrandt, “A Young Woman Sleeping (Hendrickje Stoffels)” (c1654), “does everything I want my drawings to do”.