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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9, 1638, after marrying hisson in May of the same year. But through the intermediary ofthe Sylviuses, Rembrandt had made the acquaintance of other clergyof the city, such as Alenson, Eleazar Swalm, and Renier Anslo, whoseportrait he afterwards painted. With them, as with the Rabbisand Hebrew scholars of his quarter, he was able to discuss the sacredwritings, and the problems of their interpretation. Among hisintimates were also collectors and art-dealers, such as his cousin, :■-■-. +r; • - si nÀ ^^HBf^ M W sËffR «~ V j>»* ^VH^ >... f :.. /£■**•■ — _ JkJfâ PORTRAIT OF T1T1A VAN UYLENBORCH. Pen and wash. 1639 (Stockholm Print Room). REMBRANDTS FRIENDS 261 Hendrick van Uylenborch, and a certain number of artists, chieflylandscape-painters, like R. Roghman, one of his most constantfriends ; also a few favourite pupils whom he admitted to his domesticcircle. His own home, however, was all-sufficient for him. There he found
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TWO WOMEN IN BEDS, AND OTHER SKETCHES. About 1640 (B. 369). the two things dearest to him on earth, his work and his wife, thatloving companion who anticipated his every wish, and shared hisjoys and his sorrows. Unhappily, Saskias health had given himgreat cause for anxiety for some time past. Her strength had beenseverely taxed by the birth of several children. She had lost her 2Ô2 REMBRANDT eldest son, who was born at the end of 1635. A daughter, bornon July 1, 1638, was baptised at the Oude Kerk on July 22 of thefollowing year, by the name of Cornelia, after Rembrandts mother.But this child too had died, and on July 29, 1640, a second littledaughter was given the same name, in the presence of Frans Copaland Titia van Uylenborch. This child in her turn passed away amonth later, and was buried August 24, 1640, in the Zuider Kerk,which had become the parish church of the family on their change ofdwelling. Faithful to his early habits, Rembrandt continued to take Saskiafor his model,

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