Q 01/05

In which Dutch city was Rembrandt born in 1606?

A) Leiden

B) Amsterdam

C) Haarlem

D) Delft

Answer · why

A) Leiden

He was the ninth child of a well-to-do family; his mother was Catholic and his father Dutch Reformed.

Q 02/05

What was the trade of Rembrandt's father?

A) Baker

B) Brewer

C) Miller

D) Cloth merchant

Answer · why

C) Miller

The surname 'van Rijn' indicates the family lived near the Rhine.

Q 03/05

After leaving university in 1620, Rembrandt spent three years apprenticed to which painter?

A) Jacob Pynas

B) Jacob van Swanenburg

C) Joris van Schooten

D) Gerrit Dou

Answer · why

B) Jacob van Swanenburg

He had attended a Latin school as a boy but was always more inclined towards painting.

Q 04/05

Rembrandt's brief but important six-month apprenticeship in Amsterdam was with which history painter?

A) Jacob Pynas

B) Frans Hals

C) Joris van Schooten

D) Pieter Lastman

Answer · why

D) Pieter Lastman

Lastman's influence dominates his small, detail-rich early paintings of 1625 to 1631.

Q 05/05

With which friend did Rembrandt share his first studio in his home town from 1625?

A) Gerrit Dou

B) Ferdinand Bol

C) Govert Flinck

D) Jan Lievens

Answer · why

D) Jan Lievens

He began taking pupils in 1627, among them Gerrit Dou.