Tag Archive for: Rembrandt

Old Masters: painting tricks
Rembrandt van Rijn
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Maria Trip (1639)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam I often paint dark backgrounds. Learning about old techniques, I aspire to approximate those incredible backgrounds of 17th…

Strange things in old Dutch paintings
Osias Beert. Still life of porcelain vessels containing sweets, pewter plates bearing sweets and chestnuts, three pieces of glassware and a bread roll on a table draped with a mauve cloth. 1600-1619, private collection.
In…

Old pigments painting blog: Vandyke Brown
Rembrandt van Rijn, Saskia van Uylenburgh As Flora, 1641
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
inv./cat. no. 1562; Image credit: The Rembrandt Database. Old pigments…