The Complete Work Rembrandt, Vol. 2: History, Description and Heliographic Reproduction of All the Master's Pictures, With a Study of His Life and His Art (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Contemporary records give us no hint as to how the great Anatomy picture, the commission for which was probably the immediate cause of the removal to Amsterdam, was received; but the fact that some twenty portraits of distinguished or wealthy Dutchmen have come down to us, painted by Rembrandt in the same year as the anatomy-lesson, is sufficient evidence that the young master had added considerably to his reputation in Amsterdam by this great work. It must be remembered, too, that the pictures which have survived probably represent only a portion of those he actually produced. It is, of course, very unlikely that many such portraits should exist, and yet be unknown to us; recent researches connected with the life and work of Rembrandt, and the eagerness with which his pictures are sought after by dealers, thanks to the high prices they command, have put an end to such possibilities. Never theless, if we would form an accurate idea of the proportion borne by the number of portraits still in existence to the number actually painted, we must consider the special risks from fire, damp, and neglect attendant on their preservation in townhouses and country villas. We shall hardly be far wrong, if we estimate the lost portraits as about equal in number to those which have survived. And in this estimate we havetaken into account that the owners of works by so great a master would naturally be far more careful of them than of the pictures ofinferior portrait-painters, whom in many cases we know only by two or three examples, if so many, out of the hundreds they produced.

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