Rembrandt van Rijn, master painter of the Golden Age, made this portrait of himself as a young man in 1634. During his lifetime, he painted, etched and drew some 70 self-portraits. Summerfield ...

Consider Jan Lievens, born in Leiden in western Holland on October 24, 1607, just 15 months after the birth of Rembrandt van Rijn, another Leiden native. While the two were alive, admirers spoke ...

The Bible’s Queen Esther was one of the defining Dutch divas of the 17th century and muse to some of Amsterdam’s greatest painters — among them Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. “The Book of Esther in ...