An Exclusive Date with Rembrandt at Edinburgh
BY BLOUIN ARTINFO | JULY 13, 2018
Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1647 by Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn), National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
(Courtesy: Scottish National Gallery)
An “exclusive new exhibition” of Dutch Master Rembrandt's works will be held at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh from August 1-31, 2018. The exhibition will reveal how the taste for Rembrandt's work in Britain evolved over the past 400 years.
From early beginnings around 1630, the fascination for Rembrandt's work gripped collectors and art lovers across the country, reaching a fever pitch in the late-eighteenth century. The exhibition will also reveal the profound impact of Rembrandt's art on the British imagination, by exploring the wide range of native artists whose work has been inspired by the Dutch master, over four centuries, right up to the present day.
Highlights of the show will include key paintings by Rembrandt drawn from British collections, such as “Belshazzar’s Feast” (1635) from the National Gallery in London and “Girl at the Window” (1645) from Dulwich Picture Gallery, as well as star paintings now overseas, such as The Mill from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Rembrandt is renowned for the penetrating realism of his self-portraits and some particularly fine examples will be up for viewing, including the extraordinary “Self-Portrait,” aged 51 (on long-term loan to the Scottish National Gallery) and Portrait of the Artist as Young Man (c.1629-31) from the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, which was the first painting by the artist to leave Holland and the first to enter a British collection, when it was presented to Charles I in the early 1630s.
The exhibition will include Rembrandt’s only portraits of ‘British’ sitters, “Rev Johannes Elison and his wife Maria Bockenolle” (both 1634), on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and key landscapes including “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt” (1647) from the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Although they were painted in Amsterdam, the Boston portraits depict a Dutch couple who lived in Norwich, and the paintings were in Britain by 1677. They are one of only three pairs of full-length portraits painted by Rembrandt, and have not been seen in the UK since 1929.
Among the British artists represented in the exhibition will be William Hogarth (1697-1764) and Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), both of whom betray a heavy debt to Rembrandt, seen in works such as “Reynolds’s Self-Portrait when Young” (1753-8).
The exhibition will also include a powerful version of “A Woman bathing in a Stream” (1654) by the renowned British painter Leon Kossoff (b.1926), as well as the work of artists such as John Bellany (1942-2013), Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), and Frank Auerbach (b.1931).
The exhibition will be on view from August 1 through August 31 at the Scottish National Gallery.
Founder: Louise Blouin
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