Identifier: rembrandthislife01mich (find matches)
Title: Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Michel, Emile, 1828-1909 Simmonds, Florence Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921
Subjects: Rembrandt Hermanszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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by virtue of his superior knowledge of chiaroscuro and deeper insightinto character, but he has more than one rival. His small portraitshave neither the incisive touch and dazzling bravura of those of Hals,nor the firm and delicate modelling and exquisite refinement thatmark such master-pieces of De Keysers as the two family portraitsin the Berlin Museum (1628), the portrait of the magistrates in theMauritshuis at the Hague (1631), and the fine male portrait, formerlyin the Secrétan collection, and lately acquired by M. RodolpheKann. In the male portrait of the Stockholm Museum (No. 585),Rembrandt returns to the scale in which his supremacy is undisputed.The picture bears neither date nor signature, but we believe it to bea work of 1633. The sitter, who is dressed in black and wears ablack skull-cup, holds a roll of papers in his hand. The refined andintellectual head is crowned by hair slightly streaked with gray.The work is said to represent Jan Uytenbogaerd, an ardent * to <s K
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PORTRAITS OF THIS PERIOD 143 theologian, who took an active part in the passionate religious con-troversies of the day. But we can trace no likeness between thisand other portraits of the famous minister.1 Be this as it may,the painters work has extraordinary vigour and brilliance. Followinga practice often adopted by him at this period, he has opposed themost strongly illuminated side of the face to the darkest part of hisbackground. Of a very different character to this austere conception is theComte de Pourtalèss fine portrait of a young man, formerly in theFarrer collection. The young patrician, who is painted life-size andrather more than three-quarters length, has just risen from his seat.He rests one hand on the table beside him, and holding out the otherin the light, appears to be welcoming some visitor with muchcordiality. His genial face is shadowed by a black hat ; he isrichly dressed in a black doublet with bows of ribbon and silvershoulder-knots, relieved by a collar and

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