Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self Portrait at the Age of 63 1669 Oil on canvas, 86 x 70.5 cm National Gallery, London You are looking into the eyes of a man in the last year of his life. Rembrandt is 63 and…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self Portrait at the Age of 34 1640 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Rembrandt’s most famous self portraits, but it is also a painting concerned with history and illusion.…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Frederick Rihel on Horseback c.1663 Oil on canvas, 294.5 x 241 cm National Gallery, London This life-size portrait of a man on a rearing horse is an extremely unusual painting. It is one of the largest…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels probably 1654–1656 Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 83.7 cm National Gallery, London Something doesn’t quite add up about this mysterious portrait. The sitter – Rembrandt did not identify her – has an almost regal…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Woman bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?) 1654 Oil on oak, 61.8 x 47 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt’s painting, unique for him in its tender intimacy, shows a young woman almost up to her knees in…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Franciscan Friar c.1655 Oil on canvas, 89 x 66.5 cm National Gallery, London This man is wearing the habit of a Franciscan friar (this order of monks was founded to follow the teachings of Saint Francis of…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Elderly Man as Saint Paul probably 1659 Oil on canvas, 102 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London Between the late 1650s and early 1660s Rembrandt painted a series of intimate half-length pictures of religious figures. He seems…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Ecce Homo 1634 Oil on paper mounted onto canvas, 54.5 x 44.5 cm National Gallery, London ‘Ecce Homo’, the Latin title of this painting, is taken from the Bible, and means ‘Behold the man!’ These were the words…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Belshazzar’s Feast c.1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 209.2 cm National Gallery, London Belshazzar’s Feast was painted somewhere between 1636 and 1638, when Rembrandt was about 30 years old. He had to make his way in Amsterdam, a…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Bearded Man in a Cap late 1650s Oil on canvas, 78 x 66.7 cm National Gallery, London This melancholy image of an old man lost in thought is one of a group of studies made by Rembrandt…