om the beginning, entered heartily into the
cause of "Rembrandt and his Works."

BROMPTON, November 4th, 1848.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. HEAD OF REMBRANDT _Facing Title-page._
2. INTERIOR OF THE MILL OF REMBRANDT'S FATHER _page_ 2
3. EXTERIOR OF THE SAME 2
4. REMBRANDT'S HOUSE AT AMSTERDAM 6
5. FAC-SIMILE OF A LETTER OF REMBRANDT'S 14
6. CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS 24
7. THE ENTOMBMENT 26
8. THE RETURN FROM JERUSALEM 26
9. THE NATIVITY 32
10. DOCTOR FAUSTUS 38
11. BURGOMASTER SIX 40
12. PORTRAIT OF VAN TOLLING 44
13. SIX'S BRIDGE 46
14. REMBRANDT'S MILL 48
15. FAC-SIMILE OF A DRAWING BY REMBRANDT IN BRITISH MUSEUM 72
16. PORTRAIT OF REMBRANDT'S MOTHER 74
17. PORTRAITS OF REMBRANDT AND HIS WIFE 74
18. VIEW OF AMSTERDAM 80
19. COTTAGE WITH WHITE PALINGS 80

REMBRANDT.

In commencing an account of the life of Rembrandt Van Rhyn and his
works, I feel both a pleasure and a certain degree of confidence, as,
from my first using a pencil, his pictures have been my delight and
gratification, which have continued to increase through a long life of
investigation. Though I cannot expect to enhance the high estimation
in which Rembrandt is held by all persons competent to appreciate his
extraordinary powers, nevertheless, the publication of the results of
my study may tend to spread a knowledge of his principles and practice,
which may be advantageous to similar branches in other schools; for,
notwithstanding that his style is in the greatest degree original and
peculiar to himself, yet it is founded upon those effects existing in
nature which are to be discovered, more or less, in the works of all the
great masters of colouring and chiaro-scuro. Of his early life little
is known; for, unless cradled in the higher circles of society