page_title: Rembrandt
hierarchical_section_title: Rembrandt
caption_attribution_description: Frans Banning Cocq, heer van purmerlant en Ilpendam, Capiteijn Willem van Ruijtenburch van Vlaerdingen, heer van Vlaerdingen, Luijtenant, Jan Visscher Cornelisen Vaendrich, Rombout Kemp Sergeant, Reijnier Engelen Sergeant, Barent Harmansen, Jan Adriaensen Keyser, Elbert Willemsen, Musketier Jan Clasen Leydeckers (behind the Lieutenant in Yellow blowing into the powder pan of a musket which once belonged to Jan Snedeker), Jan Ockersen, Jan Pietersen bronchorst, Harman Iacobsen wormskerck, Jacob Dirksen de Roy (the Governor on far left of the cut off section of the painting), Jan vander heede, Walich Schellingwou, Jan brugman, Claes van Cruysbergen, Paulus Schoonhoven
context_page_description: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a famous Dutch painter and artist.
  He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history, and the most important in Dutch history.ᵖ⁴²⁰ His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.
  After his success as a young portrait painter, he had personal tragedy and financial hardships in his later years. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, and his reputation as an artist remained high.ᵖ⁴²⁷ For twenty years he taught nearly every important Dutch painter.ᵖ²⁰³
  Rembrandt's greatest creative work is seen in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits are a unique biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.ᵖ⁴²⁰
context_section_description: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Leiden, 15 July 1606 – Amsterdam, 4 October 1669) was a famous Dutch painter and artist.
  He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history, and the most important in Dutch history.ᵖ⁴²⁰ His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.
  After his success as a young portrait painter, he had personal tragedy and financial hardships in his later years. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, and his reputation as an artist remained high.ᵖ⁴²⁷ For twenty years he taught nearly every important Dutch painter.ᵖ²⁰³
  Rembrandt's greatest creative work is seen in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits are a unique biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.ᵖ⁴²⁰
caption: The Nightwatch, by Rembrandt
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