Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-07

melancholy interest attaches 70 a. II
was there his brief DAYS OF prosperity
were passed with hts wife Saskia.
Much OF her short married life must
have been spent IN sitting 20 him for
her portrait No artist ever more low
ipgly and with endless pleasure paint
Ell his wife Rembrandts love for her
Is assuredly revealed 400 this charming
series. from that delightful drawing Of
her In the Berlin museum which rep
resents her as young girl. 20 that
pathetic etching called "Rembanats
Wife Dying
After Saskia's death ln 1862 he fell
on evil days. he had borrowed money
10 nav for the house and unable 90
meet hiy engagements. hc was sold out
and stripped of nearly everything he
had accumulated For the rest
of his lie he WAS sort
of nomad shifting his lodg-
lngs with uncomfortable frequency,
and carrying with him nothing but the
materials ~ his art and some little
wreckage from his collections, stu pre-
serving an undauntcd chccrtulness.
happy and c0utenled. while he could
stil find some corner in which -
paint Saskla's place ln Rembraudts
household was taken hy Hendrlckye
stoffes who had previously been bis
servant There is no record that he
ever married her Rembrandt was
neither saint nor sinner lie painted
many portraits OF her and apparently
they got along very well together lie
was mproyIdent and carless anl 10
doubt she had a hard time Of IL strly-
ing 10 make both ends meet
FROM BAD TO WORSE
Hendrlckye died IN 1864. and after
that. Rembrandts financial affairs
drifted from bad 10 worse. He might
easily have made money enough 10 keep
himself In decent comfort az least, had
he catered 10 the popular taste, but It
f. one OF the things for which we all
take on our hats 20 the old Hon. That
no amount ~ hard luck could drive
him 10 turn out pot boilers lie would
rather starve than prostitute his gent
Us And 80 he continued 10 turn ont
pictures and etchlngs that made for.
tunes Tor their lucky discoveries gem
eratiOns afterwards Before his death,
nc was numbered hy his cOntempora-
RES among the has boeus' and "a p0r-
trait which be had painted. was sold
lot h'HAhlly NtAItA'Ns N'iNiA f'"l'
ago. his portrait of u certain Or. Thol-
INK was sold for nearly 100000 francs
vastly more than be- ever made In an
his life lu his most prosperous days
his pupils paid him only 100 forms a |
year.
ALL But PAUPER'S DEATH.
So poor was he al the time Of his |
Death that u was long believed he had |
been buried az the public expense. but /
papers among the archives Of the old |
Wester-Kerk. when every nook ana /
Granny was being ransaCkcd for IN /
formation about him. showed that he I
had been spared the browning lgnomlny /
OF a paupers funeral Il IS recorded |
among these precious documents that |
Is guilders was paid for his grave. |
Nothing OF value was found among his |
possessions His creditors had seized /
everything that could be turned into |
money.
But We cannot figure him az a mo-
rose. grabbed unhappy old man. There |
was I'm him until the day Of his death, |
a dauntless. Unsuitable spirit of life. In 1
the last Of that marvellous series NJ
portraits which he painted ~ himself
with such admirable fidelity. the tooth
less mouth rolaxes In a genial smile. and
the wrlnkled eyes stu twinkle with
good humor. II IL the face OF q man
who. despite sorrow and trouble. nad
found NE well worth living and cone
fronted the end checrfully and fear
lessly, GORDON BATES.