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Marry Me

Detail of Rembrandt’s spectacular wedding portrait of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit at the exhibition "High Society", Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Rembrandt (1606-1669) painted the portraits in Amsterdam in 1634 when he was twenty-eight. They were Rembrandt’s first life-sized, full-length painted pendant portraits – and the only ones he would ever make. Marten married Oopjen in 1633. He was 20 and a law student, ready for a career in politics. Sadly, he died a mere eight years later.

 

More of the portraits in High Society at:

johanphoto.blogspot.nl/2018/04/high-society.html

More Rembrandt at:

johanphoto.blogspot.nl/2015/03/late-rembrandt.html

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Uploaded on May 9, 2018
Taken on April 12, 2018