Rembrandt's money: the legal and financial life of an artist-entrepreneur in 17th-century Holland

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'Rembrandt's Money. The legal and financial life of an artist-entrepreneur in 17th century Holland' offers a comprehensive overview of the legal and financial aspects of the life and work of Rembrandt (1606-1669). This topic has rarely been the subject of systematic legal-historical research. The author is the first to investigate the financial and legal aspects of Rembrandt's life, including the many legal disputes and conflicts which have occurred or have surrounded him during the larger part of over forty years of his private and professional life. These concern his private life as well as his work as an artist, from a young master in Leiden in the mid-1620s, to a celebrated entrepreneur in the third and fourth decades of 17th century Amsterdam, culminating in financial distress in the latter part of his life along the way, the book also sheds light on on the socio-economic, cultural and historical context of the period covered and the environments (citizenry of Amsterdam, complex religious circles, business network) Rembrandt interacted with. The reader will reach a deeper understanding of the local and social Amsterdam history and a part of its local legal system.