The Rembrandt House Museum announces the publication of a double number of the Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis for 2024 and 2025.

The Museum is pleased to present a new edition of its scholarly periodical, with six articles on topics linked to Rembrandt. Amsterdam City Archives curator and researcher Mark Ponte leads the way with a scandalous discovery that Lievens had an affair with his maid, preceding his friend Rembrandt.

The Museum’s inaugural Bader Fellow, Jochem van Eijsden, reveals the problem of how pupils and journeymen were identified in Dutch painting workshops. These insights stem from his research for a monograph on Barend Fabritius, who studied with Van Hoogstraten as well as Rembrandt. Returning to Lievens, Bredius Museum Curator Emilie den Tonkelaar shares her discovery of the presence of an unexpected secular guest in his painting of Christ and the Centurion Cornelius, and discusses its implications.

Patrick Larsen follows the Rembrandt pupil Jürgen Ovens back to Germany, demonstrating his use of prints by his master for a striking painting of Pentecost for a local patron. Emeritus Professor of Medicine Richard Weiskopf contributes to the field of Rembrandt studies with a discovery of an earlier publication and date of Ferdinand Bol’s print known as The Hour of Death.

Senior Curator at the Rembrandthuis, David de Witt, draws the connection between the works of various Dordrecht pupils that reflect knowledge of radical developments in his late work, evidently acquired on return visits to Rembrandt around 1656, perhaps together. The volume concludes with Christian Tico Seifert paying homage to the renowned Amsterdam archival researcher, and close friend of the museum, Sebastian (Bas) Dudok van Heel, who passed away last year.

The Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis is available on the website of The Rembrandt House Museum. For questions or further information contact David de Witt at d.dewitt@rembrandthuis.nl.