Rare Rembrandt painting heads to auction

October 18, 2023October 18, 2023Leave a comment

A painting by the Dutch seventeenth-century artist Rembrandt van Rijn is heading to auction this December and could make in the region of £15 million. The Adoration of the Kings was the subject of an extensive research project at Sotheby’s over the past 18 months after it was sold at Christie’s Amsterdam in 2021 as ‘Circle of Rembrandt’, where it carried a substantially lower estimate of only €10,000-15,000. This new research has led specialists to conclude that the painting was in fact by the artist himself and therefore worth considerably more money.

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Rijksmuseum opened their doors for free in honour of Rembrandt’s self-portrait

June 27, 2023Leave a comment

The Rijksmuseum waived their entrance fees as Rembrandt’s The Standard Bearer (1636) was put on display for the first time, after it was toured around the country following its purchase in 2021.

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Rembrandt sketch long thought to be a copy upgraded to an original

November 17, 2022Leave a comment

In 1921, Dutch art historian and Rembrandt expert Abraham Bredius purchased an oil sketch of The Raising of the Cross, which he believed to be by Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt. The sketch entered the collection of the Bredius Museum in The Hague, but art experts have never taken the attribution to Rembrandt seriously, considering the work to be a mere copy, or a “crude imitation”, of a painting by the Dutch master.

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Rijksmuseum set to acquire €175 million Rembrandt painting

December 16, 2021Leave a comment

One of the few portraits by Rembrandt left in private hands is likely to be purchased by the Rijksmuseum with assistance from the Dutch government. The total price of the painting is €175 million ($198 million), with the Rembrandt Association contributing €15 million and the Rijksmuseum Fund providing €10 million. The Dutch Government is set to pay the remaining €150 million, although final approvement from parliament is yet to be granted.

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Possible Rembrandt returned forty years after it was stolen in East Germany

November 8, 2021Leave a comment

In 1979, five paintings were stolen from Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha, Germany. The works did not re-emerge for 40 years, and the event became communist East Germany’s biggest ever art heist. In 2019, however, the paintings were returned to Friedenstein, and new scientific analysis and research indicates that one of the portraits, previously attributed to seventeenth-century artist Ferdinand Bol, might be a lost masterpiece by Rembrandt.

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AI reconstruction of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch

June 28, 202112 Comments

Using artificial intelligence, one of Rembrandt van Rijn’s most iconic works of art, Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Bannick Cocq – better known as The Night Watch – has had missing sections reconstructed to give viewers’ an insight into how Rembrandt’s painting originally looked.

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Lost Rembrandt painting discovered in Rome after falling off a wall

June 25, 2021Leave a comment

For many years an unassuming painting hung on the wall of a country home in the province of Rome, simply attributed to the Dutch school, until one day it fell. A restorer was called upon to fix the damage to the frame, but soon realised it was indeed a long-lost painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt (1606-1669).

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