North Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher, usually observed as the most critical of the Golden Age. If delivery is generally held in 1606, despite the fact that created sources which Rembrandt himself said to have been born in 1607. Rembrandt was born in Leiden, exactly where he grew to become a pupil of the painter Jacob van Swanenburgh. In 1624 he went 50 % yr apprenticeship with the Amsterdam Pieter Lastman, that much influence on him. Several say that he experienced also influenced by the dark-light-weight use (chiaroscuro) Caravaggio, through his followers in the Utrecht college as Gerard van Honthorst, and via Lastman.