# Portrait of Nicolaes Bruyningh [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 108 x 92 cm ## Commentary <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note03.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue number:</a> Bredius 268. Rembrandt's portrait commissions from the regent class evaporated into thin air after 1640. However, this was not the case with merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen and professionals. The rate at which Rembrandt painted and etched portraits of people in this category never deviated after 1636. Rembrandt's sitters of the 1640s and 1650s included numerous rentiers like Jan Six and Nicolaes Bruyningh \(c. 1629-1680\). Both men indulged themselves with high living and art collecting, leaving their heirs with mountains of possessions and considerable debt. ## Related artworks - [A black drummer and commander mounted on mules; riding in profile]() - [A child being taught to walk]() - [A cottage beneath trees]() - [A girl sleeping]() - [A Man Laughing]() - [A man making water]() - [A Peddler Selling Spectacles \(The Allegory of Sight\)]() - [A Polish Nobleman]() - [A Scholar]() - [A two-humped camel]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the back]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the front]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()