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Rembrandt techniques serve as inspiration for thousands of artists who aspire to learn from Rembrandt. Here are 5 tips from one of the greatest Old Masters.

This portrait of the Amsterdam ebony worker Herman Doomer is reliably signed and dated 1640. Herman (or Harmen) Doomer was born in Anrath, Germany, near the Dutch border at Venlo. At about the age of eighteen he went to Amsterdam, where on November 11, 1618, he married Baertje (also Baertge, Baartjen, or Baertjen) Martens (ca

1655(?). Oli sobre tela. 137,5 x 104,4 cm. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. 601.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, 1659

It is thought that the woman in the painting is Hendrickje Stoffels, who was Rembrandt’s maid and who shared the second part of the artist’s life. Later she would become his lover and would remain…