Rembrandt’s works on paper reveal the innovative artist as an unrivalled storyteller with an incredible eye for detail, writes An Van Camp
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, which is part of the University of Oxford’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM),holds a world-class collection of works on paper by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), the most admired Dutch artist of all time. The Ashmolean’s twenty drawings and more than 200 prints span Rembrandt’s entire career, from his earliest works made in his hometown of Leiden to his latest works produced in Amsterdam. As Rembrandt’s works on paper are highly sensitive to light, they cannot be displayed in the Ashmolean’s permanent galleries and, therefore, were relatively unknown to the public until recently.
Rose Jane Leigh’s importance as an early pioneering Wexford landscape painter and her choice of studying in Antwerp placed her at the centre of the major art movements of the 19th and early 20th century, writes Mary Stratton Ryan
