Rembrandt paintings portraits

Learn about Dutch artist and painter Rembrandt Van Rijn, and see portraits he painted throughout his life. Rembrandt Van Rijn is one of the world's greatest portrait painters, which shows in these self-portraits.

Painting by Rembrandt

Impasto is paint laid on a canvas or panel in quantities that make it stand out from the surface and is usually thick enough that brush or palette knife strokes are visible. The first known use of the word was in 1784, from Italian impasto.

Rembrandt - Self Portrait, (1636-38)

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Detail of a self portrait at the exhibition 'Late Rembrandt' in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Rembrandt, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism.