For most of his career Rembrandt produced etchings, from 1626 to 1660, when he was forced to sell his printing-press and had to gif up etching.
The Golden Age was the most prosperous period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century.
Dutch art was blooming, with Rembrandt as dominant figure among the Dutch Masters.
In 1639, Rembrandt moved to a prominent house (now the Rembrandt House Museum) in the Jodenbreestraat.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is considered to be the greatest painter in Dutch history. His work reflects the succes of the Dutch Golden Age.
His etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. During his life he achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships.
Today, the best-known painters of the Dutch Golden Age are the period's most dominant figure Rembrandt, the Delft master of genre Johannes Vermeer, the innovative landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael, and Frans Hals, who infused new life into portraiture. Studio Rembrandt has all the famous portraits of these artists.
The most notable collections of Rembrandt's work are at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, including De Nachtwacht (The Night Watch) and Het Joodse bruidje (The Jewish Bride), The Hague's Mauritshuis, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, the National Gallery, London, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, New York City, Washington, D.C., The Louvre, Nationalmuseum Stockholm and Kassel.
His home, preserved as the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, displays many examples of his etchings; all major print rooms have the majority of these, although a number exist in only a handful of impressions (copies).
During the live of Rembrandt The Kingdom of the Netherlands was called the Dutch republic — officially known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The Netherlands means low countries.
The word Dutch derives from the languages spoken in the lower counties. Originally this word was used to indicate all continental Germanic people who spoke a West Germanic language, but was later restricted to the Dutch language and the Dutch people.
During the Dutch golden age in which the Netherlands became a world power and established their empire, the province of Holland was the richest and most influential. In English (but also in Dutch and German), "Holland" is informally used as a name for the whole of the Netherlands. Also the Dutch language is called after Holland in many languages.