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Swanenburch taught his pupils the miracle of spreading a thin coat of wax on a brass plate, and drawing a picture in the wax with a sharp graver; then acid was poured over it and the acid ate into the brass so as to make a plate from which you could print. Etching was a delight to Rembrandt.
The "Sistine Madonna" hangs alone in a room in the Dresden Gallery. George Slaying the Dragon," "St. Michael Attacking Satan" and the "Coronation of the Virgin." Dutch School 1606-1669 Pupil of Van Swanenburch
This habit of reticence kept him in the background, and even the master had suspicions that he was too beefy to hold a clear mental conception. The error of the Swanenburch atelier lay in the fact that quiet folks are not necessarily stupid.
Teach him as you taught Valderschoon and those others my memory is bad, I can not remember the names I'm only a poor woman. Show my boy how to paint. And when I am dead, and you are dead, men will come to your grave and say, "It is here that he rests, here the man who first taught Rembrandt Harmenszoon to use a brush!" Do you hear, Mynheer Van Swanenburch?
The ideal teacher is not the one who bends all minds to match his own; but the one who is able to bring out and develop the good that is in the pupil him we will crown with laurel. Swanenburch was pretty nearly the ideal teacher.
But the bookmaker was stubborn and insisted on having a certain one or none. So the bargain fell through. It was getting near four years since Swanenburch had taken Rembrandt into his keeping, and now he went to the boy's parents and said: "I have given all I have to offer to your son. He can do all I can, and more.
Van Swanenburch had studied in Italy; but his own painting, to judge by the few examples still in existence, was entirely commonplace. Three years were more than enough to be passed under his tuition. At the end of the third, Rembrandt went to Amsterdam, and there entered the studio of Lastman.
He found himself at that age in the studio of his first art-master, Jacob van Swanenburch, a relative, who had studied art in Italy, and was a good master for the lad; but Rembrandt became so brilliant a painter in three years' time, that he was sent to Amsterdam to learn of abler men.
Swanenburch engraved a picture of the Leyden dissecting-room, with a brace of gallant doctors showing some fair ladies the beauties of the place. The Dutch were ambitious the young men, Rembrandt included, drew pictures entitled, "The Lesson in Anatomy." Doctors who were getting on in the world gave orders for portraits, showing themselves as about to begin work on a subject.
At the age of fourteen Rembrandt entered at Leyden University, but showed little inclination for books. He preferred Lucas van Leyden to Virgil, and his parents, accepting the situation, allowed him to study painting under Swanenburch, and later in the studio of Lastman at Amsterdam. After a few months with Lastman he returned to Leyden, "to practise painting alone and in his own way."
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