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Rembrandt was born in Leyden in 1606. He attended the university of Leyden in 1620, and then undertook apprenticeship to the anatomy lecture, Jan Lievens, whos gave him his technical background. By the year 1634 he had started to gained his fame when he moved to Amsterdam and married the wealthy Saskia van Uylenburgh. Where he achieved more success as a painter. His wife's wealth and his own success enabled him to achieved the greatest fame as the most fashionable portrait painter of Amsterdam in his own era and to be an important art collector during the 1630s. After the death of his wife in 1642, Rembrandt involved in far-reaching personal difficulties that was reflected on art. His dark manner temperamet started to be at variance with the common fashion in Dutch painting, the light colours and a light tonality, and that seems left him increasingly in seclusion in his final years. However, at the same time, his etchings and drawings were much coveted by collectors all over Europe. The central subject in Rembrandt's art was the silent human figure that remained contributed to the sense of a shared dialogue between the viewer and the picture. Rembrandt died in 1669 after achieving particular personal independence that contributed to his distinctive and evocative suggestion of the timeless human world of quiet yet deep emotional states. He left more than three hundred of his great art works. Most of his etchings and drypoints, including almost all of his major plates are in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria's Department of Prints and Drawings.

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by Khalid Al Tahmazi
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