In 1642 Rembrandt completed his most famous painting, the huge group portrait known as The Night Watch, which depicted a company of civic guardsmen marching out to defend their city. (The painting ...

The Night Watch—Rembrandt’s most famous painting, according to the museum—is 12 feet tall and more than 14 feet long. It depicts a group of civic guardsmen, Amsterdam’s 17th-century local ...

Rembrandt painted the portrait, with the artist dressed in 16th century exotic garb, in 1658 when he was 52, broke and forced to sell most of his possessions. It is the largest of the over 40 self ...

A 17th-century drawing of a lion by Rembrandt could become the most expensive work on paper ever sold at auction, according ...

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