The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-05-07

"Alas an accident haa happened g tA4
taFe; the canvas Vas ininIea, and 7 ltlf
that | threw 1t into the IRE. IW1 h1n4
florins gonei However, twill Be my loss, ho|
yours, for will paint another precisely aimilar
and it shall be ready for you BY this time To-
morrow"
al am sorry" replied the amateur, but Il va
the picture you have burned which wished L
have; and as that is gone; shall not troubll
you to paint another.
So he departed, and Rembrandt shortly after.
wards received second letter to the following
effect.
MASTER REMBRANDT-Yo You have broken youl
engagement, told falsehood, wearied yourself
to death, and lost the sale Of your pieture-.all
by listening to the dictates Of svarice. Let this
lesson be warning to you in future"
$50" said the painter, looking round at his
pupils, zone Of you must have played me this
pretty trick, Well, well, forgive it. You
young varlets do not know the value Of a florin
as | know it,"
Sometimes the students nailed small copper
coins on the floor, for the misehievous pleasure
Of seeing their master, who suffered much from
rheumatism in the back, stOOp with pain and
difficulty, and try in vain to pick them up,
Rembrandt married an ignorant peasant who
had served him as cook, thinking this more
economical alliance than one with person Of
refined mind and habits, He and his wife usu-
ally dined on brown bread, salt herrings, and
small beer. He occasionally took portraits at a
high price, and in this way became acquainted
with the Burgomaster Six, a man Of enlarged
mind and unblemished character, who yet con-
tinued faithfully attached to theavariciOus pain
ter His friendship was sometimes put to a Sc
we're test by such occurrences as the follow
ing;--
Rembrandt remarked one day that the price
Of his engraVings had fallen.
"You are Unsuitable, said the burgOmaster.
Perhaps so. / cannot help thirsting fol
gold"
"Yau are miser."
"True, and shall be one all my life."
"'Tis really pity" remarked his friend
''that you will not be able after death to act aI
your own treasurer, for whenever that event oc
ours, all your works will rise TO treble thei
present. value.
A bright idea struck Rembrandt. HefetaEa
ed home, went to bed, desired bis wife and ii
son Titus to scatter straw before the door, ant
give out, first, that he was dangerously Ill, ant
then dead-while the simulated fever was to b
of SO dreadfully infectious nature that none o
the neighbors we're to be admitted near the sick
room. These instructions were followed to thl
letter; and the disconsolate widow proclaimet
that, in order to procure money for her hus
bands interment, she must sell all his works
any property that he left no being available OF
so short a notice.
The unworthy trick succeeded. The sale in
cluding every trifle scrap Of painting or engrav
ing, realized an enormous sum, and RembFand
was in ecstasy. The honest burgomaster, howev
er, at was nearly frightened into fit Of apOpexI
seeing the man whose death he had sincerely
mourned standing alive and we'll, at the door o
his studio. Meinherr Six, obliged him to prom
ise that he would in future abstain from sucl
abominable deceptions.
One day he was employed in painting
group, the hkenesses Of the whole family Of
rich citizen. He had nearly finished it, whei
intelligence was brought him Of the death Of
tame ape, which he greatly loved. The crea
ture had fallen off the roof Of the house into th
street. Without interrupting his work Rem
brandt burst into loud lamentations, and afte
some time announced that the piece was finish
ed. The whole family advanced to look at il
and what was their horror to see introduce
between the heads Of the eldest son and daughte
an exact likeness Of the dear departed ape.-
With one voice they all exclaimed against thi
singular relative which it had pleased the pain
ter to introduce amongst them, and insiste
upon his effacing it.
"Whatf" exclaimed Rembrandt, efiace th
finest figure in the pictures No; indeed; pre-
fer keeping the piece myself. Which he did
and carried off the painting.
OfRembrandt's style it may be said, that b
painted with light, for frequently an object wa
indicated merely by the projection Of a shadol
on the wall. Often luminous spot suggested
rather than defined, hand or head. Yet theF
is nothing vague in his paintings: the mind seizg
the design Immediately. His studio was 9 eiI
cular room lighted by several narrow sits, !
contrived that rays Of sunshine entered tAroug
only one at time, and thus produced strang
effects Of light and shade. The room was file
with old world furniture;Whi made it resembl
an aniiquary's museum. There were heaped q
in the most picturesque confusion, curious oil
furniture, antique armour, gorgeously tinte
stnffs;and these Rembrandt arranged in ditferen
forms and positions, so as to vary the effects 0
/ light and color. This he called 'making hi
models sit to him." And in this close adher
ence to reality consisted the great secret Of hi
art. II is strange that his favorite amongst al
his pupils was the one whose style least re
sembled his own-Gerad Douw--he who aimet
at the most excessive minuteness Of delineation
who stopped key-holss lest particle OF dus
should fall on his palette, who gloried in repre-
senting the effects Of fresh securing on the SD
Of kettle.
Rembrandt died in 1874, at the age Of sixty
eight. He passed all his life at Amsterdam. :
Some Of his biographers have told erroueoual
That he once visited Italy: they were deceiye'
by the word Venettis placed at the bottom Q
several Of his engravings. He wrote It ther
with the intention Of deluding his coantryme
into the belief that he was absent, and about
settle in Italy--an impression which would ma
terially raise the price Of hisproduetions. Strang
and sad it is, TO see 80 much genius united with
much meanness--the head Of fine gold with th
feetof clay
U An editor down south, who served lou
days on jug, ssys hc's % full Of law that It
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