| Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669), list of works |
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 | | The great Dutch Baroque artist, Rembrandt, would take his first pupil by the age of twenty-two, after first dropping out of Latin school to pursue art with a local artist and later with a master in Amsterdam. From early on, he achieved unprecedented public as well as financial success; however, he saw all of it vanish to his vainglorious behavior, which brought bankruptcy to his personal finances and forced him to auction off most of his art and even his house. If tragedy breeds creativity, then Rembrandt certainly proved the cause for the link: some of his best works were born from this period-The Jewish Bride (1632), Bathsheba (1654) and a self-portrait (1658). |
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