Add to ORKGAert de Gelder was one of Rembrandt\u27s last pupils and continued to work in the spirit and style of his master long after other pupils, for instance, Maes, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout and Jan Lievens, had succumbed to the fashionable trend towards smooth and perfunctory painting. Like his master, he loved rich properties and colourful draperies, his studio was a veritable gallery of antiques, full of ancient weapons, silks and all kinds of utensils, and he used manikins for the sake of greater authenticity, carefully dressing them to suit the requirements of his theme. He painted with broad strokes of the brush, as Rembrandt had, and created warm tonalities and colour harmonies.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/saskia/3462/thumbnail.jp