Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

• Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• Rembrandt was born on 15 July 1606 in Leiden.
• Approximately 90 paintings were counted as Rembrandt self-portraits.
• Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, visited Rembrandt twice, and returned to Florence with one of the self-portraits.
• Earlier 21st century connoisseurs claimed Rembrandt had produced well over 600 paintings, nearly 400 etchings and 2,000 drawings.
• Rembrandt was interested in Mughal miniatures, especially around the 1650s.
• He drew versions of some 23 Mughal paintings and may have owned an album of them.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Simson threatens His Father-in-law, c. 1635.
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