Bathsheba at Her Bath - Rembrandt van Rijn

Bathsheba at Her Bath by Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media,he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Works of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn are admired for an outstandingly realistic depiction of human emotions and feelings with all their nuances, and brilliant use of light and shadow. The Dutch painter produced a large number of paintings (over 300 in total) but many works that were attributed to the artist for centuries are now disputed because his many followers and imitators created nearly perfect copies of his style.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. Rembrandt never went abroad, but he was considerably influenced by the work of the Italian masters and Netherlandish artists who had studied in Italy, like Pieter Lastman, the Utrecht Caravaggists, Flemish Baroque, and Peter Paul Rubens. After he achieved youthful success as a portrait painter. Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters