by Dutch painter
Rembrandt. The painting is still located in the
Museum Bredius today. Bredius travelled widely, visiting various art collections in his youth, and worked at the Dutch Museum for History and Art before becoming director, from 1889 to 1909, of the
Mauritshuis. He became a
Rembrandt expert who had many differences of opinion with
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. He was a regular contributor to the art history journal
Oud Holland and compiled the
Künstler-Inventare series. In 1922, he left the Netherlands for health reasons and settled in
Monaco, publishing books in 1927 on
Jan Steen and, in 1935, a
catalog of
Rembrandt paintings, often referred to in the literature as "Bredius 1935". He bequeathed his papers to the
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, and his art collection lives on in the
Museum Bredius. He also bequeathed several Rembrandt paintings to the National Dutch collection, including Rembrandt's
Homer Dictating his Verses. == Donation A. Bredius ==