Geronimo1967
Did you know that Rembrandt was his Christian name, or that the face he painted most throughout his life was his own? Well we see many of them here as the narration tells us of an unacademic man. The son of a miller, he lived an happily bucolic life content to spend his days painting his parents and drawing his home. An apprenticeship followed then by the age of 20, he had his own studio and was producing works of art that would ultimately fund his residency, aged 25, in Amsterdam. There he arrived just as the Dutch were starting to trade globally; it's merchant classes now giving him an opportunity to paint portraits of the great and the good from the upper echelons of society. "The Anatomy Lesson" changed the game, though - a group painti...