Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Pictorial works; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Anthony-gate (see _plate 6_) at the end of the street
where Rembrandt lived.
19. The spot where Rembrandt has apparently sketched the mills and
the views of the town (see _plate 7_).
20. The tower called Montelbaanstoren (see plates _9_ and _10_) and
the bridge from which Rembrandt sketched it.
21. The bridge called “Leliebrug,” from which Rembrandt sketched the
tower of the church called _Westerkerk_. This church, on the map,
is between the bridge and the house numbered 8. (See _plate 13_.)
In this church Rembrandt was buried.
22. About this spot Rembrandt must have found the subject for his
etching _View of Amsterdam_ (see Frontispiece, _plate 1_). When this
etching was executed, the tongue of land, near there, with the two
bastions, did not yet exist.
23. Bridge called Blaubrug (Blue Bridge) where Rembrandt sketched
the perspective along the Amstel river.
24. Houses on the “Singel” (now Nos. 234-236) where the caligrapher
Lieven Willemsz. Coppenal, an intimate friend of Rembrandt, had his
school, and probably lived.
25. House on the “Keizersgracht” (stated as the second house from
the “Beerenstraat”), where the painter Johan van de Cappelle, a
friend and fervent admirer of Rembrandt, lived until 1663.
26. House in the “Koestraat” (now No. 15), where the same painter
lived after 1663. This house, until then, had been inhabited by the
celebrated musician Sweelinck and his descendants.
27. House on the “Lauriergracht” (probably between the first and
second bridge) where Rembrandt’s pupil Govert Flinck lived from
1644, until his death in 1660. Ten years earlier he was staying in
the house of the dealer Hendrick Uylenburgh (see above) where
Rembrandt then also lived.
To locate the houses of some others of Rembrandt’s artist-friends and
pupils is more difficult: Ferdinand Bol lived, in Rembrandt’s time, on the
"Fluweele burgwal" (i.e., on the map, the left-hand side of the canal
numbered 28), and afterwards in the new extension on the "Keizersgracht"
near the "Spiegelstraat." So did Gerbrand van den Eeckfwut, who died on
the "Heeren-gracht" near the " Viyselstraat." Philips Koninck lived, in
Rembrandt’s time, on the "Keizersgracht," the same canal where we found
Tulp and van de Cappelle.
REMBRANDT’S AMSTERDAM
By Frits Lugt
I
[Plate 1. View of Amsterdam from the East. ]
Plate 1. View of Amsterdam from the East. _(reversed)_. After the etching
by Rembrandt
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