. Rembrandt: sein Leben, sein Werk, seine Zeit. Geschmack. Wie seine Frau, der Minister sitzt, in einem ziemlich schweren Sessel, mit einem roten Leder studdedwith vergoldeten Nägel. Einige Bücher sind offen vor ihm auf dem Tisch coveredwith eine grünliche Tuch, und er scheint in seinem readingof angehalten zu haben, wahrscheinlich eine Bibel. Alensons Kleid ist eine schwarze Robe mit widehanging Ärmel, eine weiße gauffered Ruff und einem kleinen schwarzen Schädel-cap. Seinen mächtigen Kopf scharf vom Hintergrund und theeyes, die direkt an den Zuschauer, sind voller Feuer, Intelligenz, andauthority. Seine ganze Persönlichkeit b

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. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. taste. Like his wife, the minister is seated, in a rather heavy arm-chair, with a back of red leather studdedwith gilt nails. Some books are open before him on a table coveredwith a greenish cloth, and he seems to have paused in his readingof one, probably a Bible. Alensons dress is a black robe with widehanging sleeves, a white gauffered ruff, and a small black skull-cap.His powerful head stands out sharply from the background, and theeyes, which look straight at the spectator, are full of fire, intelligence, andauthority. His whole personality bears the stamp not only of bodily 1 Vosmaer, who calls him Ellison, says he was a minister of the Anglican church atAmsterdam. The portrait was sold by this name and title in i860 at the S. Colby salein London. But Mr. Moes informs us in his Iconographia Batava that there was noAnglican minister of the name of Ellison at Amsterdam in 1634. He discovered, however, that there was a Mennonite minister called Alenson living at Haarlem. Xv 11! ! - u. Man PrcpariuQ; for Bed. Icn iind Scpiii. (STOCKHOLM PRINT ROOM.) PORTRAIT OF AN OLD LADY 115 health but of extraordinary moral energy. His small and somewhatwrinkled left hand is laid upon his breast with a gesture that seemsto attest the strength and sincerity of his convictions. Rembrandtalone could endue a portrait with such depth and intensity ofexpression; but even he had never before achieved such masteryand such eloquence. The picture, though absolutely faithful to nature, passes out of the domain of mere portraiture. It is a historical docu-ment, a living, irrefragable witness, so to speak, to the nature of thosezealous and impassioned religious personalities that figure so pro-minently in Dutch history of the period, and whose influence wasso pronounced in the intellectual and political life of Holland. Savethat similar vagaries are common in the records of auctions, itwould be difficult to explain the strange reception of these

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