In a chapter devoted to Israels, Gerda Schmidt variously refers to the artist as the “great ‘rabbi’ of painting,” the “Altmeister of Dutch art” (old master) and “the Jewish Rembrandt.” ...

Solider evidence exists for Rembrandt’s portraits of Ephraim Bueno, a Jewish physician, whom the artist immortalized in a small oil sketch, intended as a preparatory study for an etching.Some ...

Rembrandt van Rijn, Study of the Head and Clasped Hands of a Young Man as Christ in Prayer. ... The piece had sold for $2,500, and the consigner was Jewish art historian Numa Trivas, ...

Experts say the paintings are of the artist's quality and have his characteristic unusual lighting. It is believed they may have been studies for figures in some of Rembrandt's larger compositions.

Rembrandt van Rijn, “A Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible,” 1632-33, is one of three Rembrandt paintings at the Jewish Museum’s current show.

For years, experts at The Hague’s Museum Bredius dismissed an oil painting for a true piece by Rembrandt, thinking that it was merely produced by a follower of the Dutch master.. First reported ...