{"id":555570,"date":"2026-07-18T05:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555570\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T05:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:25:14","slug":"e9m-rembrandt-work-puts-the-artists-humanity-in-the-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555570\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac9m Rembrandt work puts the artist&#8217;s humanity in the frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating insight into Rembrandt\u2019s tolerance and humanity is contained in a rare early history painting that made \u00a38 million (\u20ac9,388,000) at Sotheby\u2019s in London this month.<\/p>\n<p>The work  Let The Little Children Come Unto Me was painted around 1627 against a background of growing religious intolerance and hatred of refugees. This was the height of the 30 Years\u2019 War, which began in 1618 as a religious dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Rembrandt\u2019s mother had Catholic roots, and his father was Protestant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The young Rembrandt made this work after his return to Leiden following an apprenticeship in Amsterdam. In no other image did he bring his family together so completely. There is a vivid self-portrait, depictions of his father and his mother and possibly his godparents and godsister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The unfinished original was completed by an unknown artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A painstaking restoration over the last decade revealed what had been painted by Rembrandt\u2019s own hand. The tall figure in the centre originally wore a turban. The turban was replaced during repainting by a soft hat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The presence of a possibly Muslim figure in Rembrandt\u2019s hand is important because Jewish and Christian faiths are represented in the painting. Leiden was then full of refugees, with religious disputes spilling onto the street. It is entirely plausible that Rembrandt was using this image \u2014 subsequently doctored by others \u2014 to promote tolerance between faiths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fascinating insight into Rembrandt\u2019s tolerance and humanity is contained in a rare early history painting that made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63369,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-555570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-home-art-and-antiques","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}