5/14 683, 2-7/8 inches wide, 5-1/8 inches high, called _The Sport of Kolef or Golf_. National Gallery, London.] Is it fantastical to assume that his interest in Rembrandt dated from that little golf etching? We will follow the Rembrandtish adventures of this citizen of London, and golfer. Suppose that on his homeward way from the Museum he stopped at a book shop and bought M.Auguste Breal's small, accomplished book on Rembrandt. Having read it, and being a man of leisure, means, and grip, he naturally invested one guinea in the monumental tome of M.Emile Michel, Member of the Institute of France--that mine of learning about Rembrandt in which all modern writers on the master delve. |