GERMANY ~ Family Portrait - Rembrandt van Rijn - Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum ~

... Beautiful painting by Rembrandt van Rijn with great matching postmark👍... this year it will be 350 years since Rembrandt died at the age of 63...  this portrait of a family belongs to the late works of Rembrandt... he painted it not long before his death (1666-68)...  unfortunately the family have not been identified.... the work is owned by the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig... Thanks a lot Dustin for once more a unique item! (✿ ♥‿♥)

Rembrandt Harmensz.van Rijn  (1606-1669) is one of the most famous Dutch masters of the 17thC born in Leiden. The style period in which Rembrandt made his paintings, drawings and etchings is known as the Baroque.

The Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher Rembrandt van Rijn knew many highs and lows in his life. Despite his success, he was unable to get his finances in order and, after the death of his first wife, he refused to remarry, with all its consequences. He was taken to court by his former housekeeper, fathered an illegitimate child with his new girlfriend, and was declared bankrupt as a blow. Rembrandt was also unfortunately not granted a quiet old age, he lost his then girlfriend Hendrickje to the plague and survived his only son Titus. All the dramas Rembrandt had experienced in his life caused his painting style to change - to his disadvantage - over the years and by the time he died there was virtually no demand for his work.

Founded in 1754, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig is one of the oldest museums in Europe. It houses an important collection of Western old master paintings.

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(Issued 11-05-2017)