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Title: Rembrandt and His Works
Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.

Author: John Burnet

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REMBRANDT AND HIS WORKS:

Comprising a Short Account of His Life;
with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice
of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour.

Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.

by

JOHN BURNET, F.R.S.

Author of "Practical Hints on Painting."

[Illustration: HEAD OF REMBRANDT]

London:
David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street.
MDCCCXLIX.

TO
THE EARL OF ELLESMERE,
THE ENLIGHTENED PATRON OF ART AND LITERATURE,
THIS WORK
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY HIS OBLIGED, HUMBLE SERVANT,
JOHN BURNET.

PREFACE.

The high estimation in which I have ever held the works of Rembrandt
has been greatly increased by my going through this examination of his
various excellencies, and such will ever be the case when the emanations
of genius are investigated; like the lustre of precious stones, their
luminous colour shines from the centre, not from the surface. With such
a mine of rich ore as the works of Rembrandt contain, it is nece