Rembrandt

Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; 1606–69), Dutch painter and etcher. Born and trained in Leiden, he moved to Amsterdam in 1631 and achieved recognition with a group portrait, The Anatomy Lesson (1632). Adapting the styles of Caravaggio, Hals, and Rubens, his painting became, during 1632–42, Baroque in style, as in Saskia as Flora (1634), Blinding of Samson (1636), and The Night Watch (1642). The years 1643–56 were notable for his magnificent drawings and etchings, predominantly of New Testament themes, such as The Three Crosses (1653–61). From the mid-1650s his painting was more solemn and spiritual in mood and richer in color, as shown in portraits (Jan Six, 1654, The Syndics of the Amsterdam Cloth Hall, 1662), a series of moving self-portraits, and religious paintings like David and Saul (c. 1658).