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Title: Rembrandt

Author: Josef Israels

Release Date: February 16, 2007 [EBook #20607]

Language: English

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MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR

EDITED BY T. LEMAN HARE

In the Same Series

Artist. Author.
VELAZQUEZ. S. L. Bensusan.
REYNOLDS. S. L. Bensusan.
TURNER. C. Lewis Hind.
ROMNEY. C. Lewis Hind.
GREUZE. Alys Eyke Macklin.
BOTTICELLI. Henry B. Binns.
ROSSETTI. Lucien Pissarro.
BELLINI. George Hay.
FRA ANGELICO. James Mason.
LEIGHTON. A. Lys Baldry.
REMBRANDT. Josef Israels.
WATTS. W. Loftus Hare.
TITIAN. S. L. Bensusan.
RAPHAEL. Paul G. Konody.

_Others in Preparation._

[Illustration: PLATE 1.--SUZANNA VAN COLLEN

This portrait, painted about 1633, and one of the gems of the Wallace
Collection, presents Susanna van Collen, wife of Jan Pellicorne, and her
daughter.]

REMBRANDT

BY JOSEF ISRAELS

ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

The plates are printed by Bemrose Dalziel, Ltd., Watford

The text at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate
I. Suzanna Van Collen Frontispiece
From the Wallace Collection

Page
II. A Portrait of Saskia 14
In the Brera, Milan

III. Syndics of the Cloth Merchants' Guild 24
In the Royal Museum at Amsterdam

IV. Portrait of an Old Man 34
In the Pitti Palace at Florence

V. The Company of Francis Banning Cocq 40
In the Royal Museum at Amsterdam

VI. Portrait of a Young Man 50
In the Pitti Palace at Florence

VII. Portrait of an Old Lady 60
From t