Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. Born in Leiden to a miller, he trained in Amsterdam and opened a Leiden studio in 1625. He moved to Amsterdam in 1631 and became its leading portraitist, marrying Saskia van Uylenburgh in 1634.

Between 1640 and 1642 he painted The Night Watch. Saskia died in 1642, and his passion for collecting art forced him to declare insolvency in 1656; his collection was sold.

Undiminished, he painted late masterpieces including The Jewish Bride before dying in Amsterdam in 1669. About three hundred paintings and three hundred etchings survive.