Reflections of the master

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Rembrandt's 'A Woman Bathing In A Stream' shows his mistress, Hendrikje Stoffels. It is one of four or five paintings in which she posed for him in the period 1654 to 1656. This piece has been carried out with what the Dutch know as 'liquidated freedom.' The painting is thick on the edge of the right sleeve, but very thin on the skin and the bust. The impression is that Rembrandt worked on it extremely quickly, regarding it as an oil sketch, rather than a finished painting. The way in which the subject's calves meet the water line is especially interesting.

A Woman Bathing In A Stream (Painting)

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Old master and old mistresses

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Susannah and the Elder, painted in 1636, contains a number of psychological and sexual points that show Rembrandt's mature understanding and interpretation of the sexual relationships between men and women. The exploitation of voyeurism in this picture, with accompanying innocence and vulnerability, are all the more surprising when considering the artist was just 30 at the time. He always used ordinary, un-idealised women when painting female nudes and, in this respect, he annoyed even his contemporaries.

Portrayals, Nude in art, Nudes (Art)

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Professor Sir John Plumb

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Historian John Plumb was born in Leicester, England, in 1911. He studied at the University College of Leicester and at London University and was later greatly influenced by his graduate teacher, G.M. Trevelyan.

Obituary, Historians, Plumb, John Harold

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