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Rembrandt van Rijn · 1632
Rembrandt van Rijn: 1606–1669
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Biography
Rembrandt van Rijn was born in Leiden and built his career as a painter, draughtsman and printmaker. After training locally and briefly with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, he established an independent workshop in Leiden. His move to Amsterdam around 1631 brought portrait commissions and work for wealthy patrons. He also painted religious and historical subjects and produced a wide range of drawings and prints. His approach to light and shadow gives faces and gestures a strong expressive presence. Artline's selection places portraits beside a landscape drawing and prints, allowing readers to compare how he developed subjects across different materials and techniques.
Reference biography
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings.
Unlike most Dutch painters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological subjects and animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.
Rembrandt never went abroad, but was considerably influenced by the work of the Italian Old Masters and Dutch and Flemish artists who had studied in Italy. After he achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime; his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. Rembrandt's portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible are regarded as his greatest creative triumphs. His approximately 100 self-portraits, over 40 of which are paintings, form an intimate autobiography.
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Influenced by
- Pieter Lastmandocumented
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The National Gallery records Rembrandt’s brief period of study with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam in 1624.
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- Jan Pynaseditorial inference
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- Jacob van Swanenburgheditorial inference
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- Peter Paul Rubenseditorial inference
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- Joris van Schooteneditorial inference
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- Pieter Lastmaneditorial inference
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- Nicolaes Maeseditorial inference
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- Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstrateneditorial inference
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- Ilya Repineditorial inference
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- Godfrey Knellereditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- National Gallery of Art348 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)309 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art252 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago158 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art121 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art99 recorded works
- National Gallery16 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum16 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre9 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts7 recorded works
- Nationalmuseum6 recorded works
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie5 recorded works
- Mauritshuis4 recorded works
- musée Ziem — Martigues4 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Rennes3 recorded works
- Alte Pinakothek — Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen2 recorded works
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna1 recorded work
- British Museum1 recorded work
- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister1 recorded work
- Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden1 recorded work
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum1 recorded work
- musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain — Epinal1 recorded work
- musée Granet — Aix-en-Provence1 recorded work
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille1 recorded work
- Museo Nacional del Prado1 recorded work
- Museu Calouste Gulbenkian1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Ireland1 recorded work
- National Museum in Kraków1 recorded work
- National Museum of Art of Romania1 recorded work
- Royal Castle in Warsaw1 recorded work
- Sinebrychoff Art Museum1 recorded work
- The Nivaagaard Collection1 recorded work
- Tyrolean State Museum1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery, London
- National Gallery of Art
- National Gallery, London
- National Gallery, London
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- National Gallery, London
- Museum authority country review
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- musée Granet — Aix-en-Provence
- musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain — Epinal
- Polish museum and gallery creator authorities
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Rijksmuseum
- National Gallery, London
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
