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Into Lastman's keeping came the young man, Rembrandt Harmens. Lastman received him cordially, and set him to work. But the boy proved hard to manage: he had his own ideas about how portraits should be painted. Lastman tried to unlearn him. The master was patient, and endeavored hard to make the young man paint as he should that is, as Lastman did; but the result was not a success.
His pictures were in demand, principally because they were Lastman's. Proud ladies came from afar and begged the privilege of sitting as his model. In Italy, Lastman had found that many painters employed 'prentice talent. The great man would sketch out the pictures, and the boys would fill in the color.
Lastman would go off about his business, and perhaps drop in occasionally during the day to see how the boys got on, adding a few touches here and there, and gently rebuking those who showed too much genius. Lastman believed in genius, of course; but only his own genius filled his ideal. As a consequence all of Lastman's pictures are alike they are all equally bad.
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