Rembrandt

American  

[rem-brant, -brahnt, rem-brahnt] / ˈrɛm brænt, -brɑnt, ˈrɛm brɑnt /

noun

1. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn or van Ryn, 1606–69, Dutch painter.

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Rembrandt British  

/ ˈrɛmbrænt /

noun

1. full name Rembrandt Harmensz (or Harmenszoon ) van Rijn (or van Ryn ). 1606–69, Dutch painter, noted for his handling of shade and light, esp in his portraits

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Rembrandt Cultural  

1. A seventeenth-century Dutch painter, considered one of the greatest painters in history. Rembrandt's work, with its strong lights and deep shadows, has a unique intensity. The Night Watch is one of his best-known paintings.

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Other Word Forms

• Rembrandtesque
  adjective
• Rembrandtish
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt plants himself unusually low in the frame, his body like ballast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Merging portrait and landscape, Rembrandt makes himself monumental, distant yet looming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Hodges went on to study works by Caravaggio and Rembrandt in Europe, with Gasparotto joining him in museums like the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin along the way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The Osaka exhibition, running through September 27, will feature a total dozen paintings from the Mauritshuis collection, including Vermeer's "Diana and her Nymphs" and "The Laughing Man" by Rembrandt.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

In this case there were two identical patches of spiderweb cracks and two reproductions of the same Rembrandt.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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