Second in a five-part series,
first shown in 1976, on the life and work of Rembrandt.
The Rebel. Lord Clark explores Rembrandt's career as a rebel, and concludes that many of his pictures were meant to be shocking. Although he was the chosen portrait-painter of the Dutch middle class, Rembrandt "did not know how to keep his station, and always associated with the lower orders". He never let himself be distracted from the truth and the work he produced in protest against antique art and morality is still disturbing today.
Producer Colin Clark