Mystery of the lost Rembrandt
IN 1625, REMBRANDT was 19 years old and living in his home town of Leiden. Although he was the ninth of 10 children born to a flour-dusted couple — a miller and his wife, the daughter of a baking family — he had been given a classical education among Leiden’s haute bourgeoisie at the city’s Latin school, and then at its university, the oldest in the Netherlands.
Rembrandt was an artistic prodigy but he was not the most prodigious young artist in the city. That was
