"He was greater, perhaps," says Mr.Clausen, "than any other painter in human feeling and sympathy, in dramatic sense and invention; and his imagination seemed inexhaustible." The Ryks Museum at Amsterdam may be said to have been designed as a shrine for his _Night Watch_.

Near by it hangs _The Syndics of the Cloth Company_, excelled, in this particular class of work, by no picture in the world; but it is by the portraits and the etchings that the sweep, profundity, and versatility of Rembrandt's genius is exemplified.

Truly his imagination was inexhaustible.
It is an education to stand before his portraits in the National Gallery.
Observe the _Old Lady_, aged 83, the massive painting of her face, and the outline of her figure set so firmly against the background.

Here is Realism, frank and straightforward, almost defiant in its strength.

Turn to the portrait of _A Jewish Rabbi_.