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Rembrandt's naked women "would have frightened an Arctic bear" wrote the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon in his Journal. Mad, melancholy, suicidal and angrily envious of other men's success, ...
An exhibition called "Rembrandt's Women," the latest gathering of certified masterpieces by the Dutchman, has been attracting crowds to London's Royal Academy for a few weeks now.
Rembrandt hired a childless widow, Geertje Dircx, to care for young Titus and later made the woman his mistress. After a bitter breakup in 1649, Dircx refused Rembrandt's offer of a 60-guilder ...
Described in the Old Testament as a beautiful woman, Rembrandt capitalizes on Esther’s cunning. She looks powerful holding a decree in hand as her wavy hair unfurls from the simple crown set ...
For over 50 years, a painting called "The Portrait of a Young Woman" was attributed to Rembrandt's studio rather than the master himself. But a restoration has some scholars saying it's the real deal.
The Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania says the 17th-century “Portrait of a Young Woman,” long considered the work of someone in Rembrandt’s studio, is in fact by the Dutch master himself.
For Thomas Kaplan in New York, who owns 15 Rembrandt paintings (part of his “Leiden Collection”), acquiring Rembrandt’s Study of a Woman in a White Cap (1640) enabled him to kiss that woman ...
When “Portrait of a Young Woman” was bequeathed to the museum in 1961, it was considered to be a Rembrandt. About a decade later, a group of experts determined that it had been painted by one ...