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REMBRANDT

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rhyn was a 17th century Dutch painter. He was born in 1606 at Leyden and died in 1669. He studied and practised in his own style, starting in 1624. He was an eager student of human nature and preferred subjects whose faces bore the marks of life's experiences, and so became the painter of old age. In 1656 he was declared bankrupt, and in the ensuing years of stress he produced what are considered his best works.
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