Illustrated Biography of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) who is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, in which Dutch world power, political influence, science, commerce, and culture - particularly painting - reached their pinnacle. By Josef Israels who was a Dutch painter and "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century.