Rembrandt van Rijn

Impasto is paint laid on a canvas or panel in quantities that make it stand out from the surface and is usually thick enough that brush or palette knife strokes are visible. The first known use of the word was in 1784, from Italian impasto.

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View SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A RUFF AND A BLACK HAT (1632) By van Rijn Rembrandt; oil on oak panel; 21.8 by 16.3 cm.; 8⅝ by 6⅜ in; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

It is thought that the woman in the painting is Hendrickje Stoffels, who was Rembrandt’s maid and who shared the second part of the artist’s life. Later she would become his lover and would remain…

See the woman with a knife in the painting? Think of Lucretia - an ancient Roman woman frequently depicted in art.

Painting by Rembrandt

The Night Watch, detail 2, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), 1642, oil on canvas Canon 7D The company of the Amsterdam civic guardsmen is under the command of Captain Frans Banning Cocq, dressed in black, and his lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburgh, dressed in bright yellow.

This portrait of the Amsterdam ebony worker Herman Doomer is reliably signed and dated 1640. Herman (or Harmen) Doomer was born in Anrath, Germany, near the Dutch border at Venlo. At about the age of eighteen he went to Amsterdam, where on November 11, 1618, he married Baertje (also Baertge, Baartjen, or Baertjen) Martens (ca