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They considered it a necessity to imitate him, so much was he admired. In 1634 Rembrandt married Saskia van Ulenburg, who was very beautiful and of an aristocratic and wealthy family. She was only twenty-one years of age when she married, and Rembrandt painted many portraits of her besides making her his model for beautiful figures in his mythological and sacred subjects.
Four years after the "Lesson in Anatomy" was painted, when he was at the height of prosperity, in 1634, he married Saskia van Uylenborch, the Saskia of so many an etching and picture. She was of a good Frisian family, and brought with her a dowry of no mean proportions. Rembrandt's marriage made small changes in his way of living.
Only four Rembrandts, the portrait of a woman, according to Vosmaer and W. Burger that of his wife Saskia; a fisherman's boy, the Burgomaster, and the Old Jew. Dr. Bode thinks that the last two are by Nikolas Maes. The portrait of Eleazer Swalmius the so-called Burgomaster Six is finely painted as to head and beard. The Antwerp Museum paid two hundred thousand francs for the work.
He disliked the stiff Dutch clothes and the great starched white ruffs worn by the women of the day. He had to paint them in his portraits; but when he painted his beautiful wife, Saskia, she is decked in embroideries and soft shimmering stuffs. Wonderful clasps and brooches fasten her clothes. Her hair is dressed with gold chains, and great strings of pearls hang from her neck and arms.
A ghost of a smile lurked there, to which Dickson promptly responded. He grinned and bowed. "Very pleased to meet you, Mem. I'm Mr. McCunn from Glasgow." "You don't even know my name," she said. "We don't," said Heritage. "They call me Saskia. This," nodding to the chair, "is my cousin Eugenie.... We are in very great trouble. But why should I tell you? I do not know you. You cannot help me."
We've taken on too big a job for two men and six laddies, and help we've got to get, and that this very morning. D'you mind the big white house away up near the hills ayont the station and east of the Ayr road? It looked like a gentleman's shooting lodge. I was thinking of trying there. Mercy!" The exclamation was wrung from him by his eyes settling on Saskia and noting her apparel.
Heritage arranged with Saskia that the lamp was to be kept burning low, and that on no account were they to move unless summoned by him. Then he and Dickson made their way to the hall, where there was a faint glimmer from the moon in the upper unshuttered windows enough to reveal the figure of Wee Jaikie on duty at the foot of the staircase.
But when in a sudden return of modesty he belittled his usefulness and talked sombrely of his mature years he was told that he "wad never be auld wi' sae muckle honesty." Indeed it was very clear that Mrs. Morran approved of her nephew. They did not linger over breakfast, for both were impatient to be on the road. Mrs. Morran assisted Saskia to put on Elspeth's shoes.
Rembrandt could have been nothing but what was delightful and good, since he was loved by so charming a girl as Saskia. He painted her sitting upon his knee, and used her as model in many pictures. First, last, and always he loved her tenderly. In one portrait she is dressed in "red and gold-embroidered velvets"; the mantle she wore he had brought from Leyden.
As the years go by we shall see that it would have been better had he saved his money and builded against the coming of the storm; but even though Saskia protested mildly against his extravagance, the master would have his way. His was a tireless nature: he found his rest in change. He usually had some large compositions on hand and turned to this for pastime when portraits failed.
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