MANY “REMBRANDTS" CONDEMNED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19067, 12 January 1924, Page 12

MANY “REMBRANDTS " CONDEMNED.

NOT ONE IN AMERICA Only 35 out of 800 or 1000 paintings attributed to Rembrandt are genuine, and not one of the 35 is in the American gallery, according to the deductions of Mr John, Vandyke, Professor of Art and Archeology at Rutgers College, New York. Professor Vandyke, after quiet investigation, extending over a period of 40 years, of the paintings supposed to come from the brush of Rembrandt, publishes these findings in the volume “ Rembrandt and His School" (Charles Scribner and Sons). He assails the Rembrandt tradition, as a huge mistake, which has misled art lovers and critics for more than a century. The professor saya that for years he has found that his teaching of the history or art has been denied and forsworn at every turn by claims concerning, pictures in various galleries, and he has been unable to understand why Rembrandt’s paintings should be weak, strong, smooth, rough, cramped, and flowing, all in the same year,”' No one seems to have had tie soul to "attack the Rembrandt tradition, he says, and lie now "oublishcs Inis conclusions, witii no desire for sensation, but to establish historv. The Metropolitan Museum of Art m New York is most unfortunate, he declares, fn not havine a single Rembrandt in its possession done by the master's hand. In .no Louvre, he declares, there are only four true Rembrandts out of 23 credited to him : in the Hormitaao Gallcrv. Petrograd two out of -).'»• in {be National Gallery. London, four out 'o: °l7 and in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum,' Berlin, three out of 26, with «. ehade of doubt, about those three.