The 1000++ Artworks of media Oil On Canvas and containing the word rembrandt van rijn, oil on canvas, portraits, 1650

Abraham de Visscher was baptized on 10 February 1605 in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam as the eldest son of an Emden-born merchant of the same name and his wife Cornelia Coymans. On 13 July 1632 he married Machtelt Bas, daughter of the city’s influential regent Dirck Jacobsz Bas.6 Their marital status i...

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Since the fourteenth century, overseers of the poor had been providing support for officially registered paupers who did not live in a charitable foundation. That assistance had traditionally been supplied by the clergy, but the city authorities took over responsibility for it in the early seventeen...

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Shown from the lap up against a dark background, a pale-skinned woman wearing a black dress looks out at us in this vertical portrait. Soft light coming from our left highlights her oval face, the peach blush on her cheeks, and her crisp white collar, cap, and cuffs. Her brown hair is pulled back un...

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A native of Lille, Vaillant trained in Antwerp and by the mid-1650s was well established as a portraitist in Amsterdam. The artist is also known as a pioneer of mezzotint engraving. In Dutch and Flemish portraits, falcons usually refer to hunting as an aristocratic sport.

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Of the many self-portraits Rembrandt painted over a lifetime, this is perhaps the greatest, not only for its poignant revelations of the self, but for his sure handling of paint. The initial effect on viewers is daunting, as though they are confronting an ill-tempered monarch. The strange costume he...

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This is one of the most beautiful portraits in the Royal Collection. Its companion, in the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, depicts Nicolaes van Bembeeck (1596 - 1661), a wool merchant who had married Agatha Bas (1611-58) in 1638. It is also signed and dated 1641. The couple lived in the Sint A...

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Landweg with some travelers on the left. On the right a family rests at a fence, including two hunters with horses and dogs.

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Shown from about the knees up, an older, bearded, pale-skinned man sits at a desk with his head in one hand in a shadowy room in this vertical painting. His body is angled to our right, and he sits in a heavy wooden armchair next to a desk. His left elbow, farther from us, rests on the chair’s arm, ...

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A young girl with downcast eyes and a fur-lined, pale pink dress is staring dejectedly into space. The portrait is dominated by a frontal diffused light that enhances the shiny surface of the dress and the warm glow of her face. The conspicuous brush strokes, diffused lighting and use of chiaroscuro...

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The sentimental subject of Rembrandt's son Titus, who died one year before his father, was a favorite of Rembrandt forgers, who occasionally failed to coordinate the date on their canvas with the style of execution and the sitter's age. The present painter has been more careful, evidently referring ...

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This work was probably exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1777 as the pair of /

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Painted when he was in his mid-thirties, Murillo’s first self-portrait shows him as an upper-class Spaniard, sporting an elegant black outfit with a golilla (a stiff white collar, typical of Spanish fashion). It was probably a private work, painted for his own family. The image of the artist is set ...

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Portrait of William III, Prince of Orange, stadholder and also King of England since 1689. Headpiece, standing in armor to the right with command staff in the right hand, the left hand resting on a helmet. At the bottom of a dog's head. In the background, a battle. Most likely based on a prototype b...

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Rembrandt Van Rijn's Lucretia, painted in 1664, is a poignant representation of the ancient Roman legend of Lucretia. This oil on canvas masterpiece measures 120 x 101 cm and is currently housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, United States. The Story Behind the Painting The painting...

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There is much evidence that Rembrandt’s series of almost forty reliably documented self-portraits – unique in the history of painting – served as more than merely a vehicle for the Amsterdam painters self-reflection. They werealso a suitable means for him to present himself to the public: a form of ...

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Of the approximately 200 paintings in Van Bijlert’s oeuvre, 48 are portraits. That the sitter in the present half-length portrait was a widow, as Huys Janssen has described her, or at least in mourning is suggested primarily by the cap she wears. This pointed black cap, a widow’s peak, was a costume...

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