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The life and times of Rembrandt : R.v.R. ; is an account of the last years and the death of one Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ... who was attended in his afflictions by one Joannis van Loon, doctor medicinae and chirurgeon in extraordinary ... who during a most busy life yet found time to write down these personal recollections of the greatest of his fellow-citizens and which are now for the first time presented (provided with a few notes, emendations and critical observations as possible)

"The Life and times of Rembrandt, R.v.R. is an account of the last years and the death of one Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, a painter and etcher of some renown, who lived and worked (which in his case was the same) in the town of Amsterdam (which is in Holland) and died of general neglect and diverse other unfortunate circumstances on the fourth of October of the year of grace 1669 ... and who was attended in his afflictions by one Joannis van Loon doctor medicinae and chirurgeon in extraordinary to a vast number of humble citizens whose enduring gratitutde has erected him a monument less perishable than granite and more enduring than porphyry and who during a most busy life yet found time to write down these personal recollections of the greatest of his fellow-citizens and which are now for the first time presented (provided with a few notes, emendations and critical observations as possible) by his great-great-grandson, nine times removed Hendrik Willem van Loon in the year of grace 1930 and in the town of Veere which is in Zeeland."-- page [xi].

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