Third in a five-part series, first shown in 1976, on the life and work of Rembrandt.
The Success. Amsterdam in the 1630s was dominated by a newly rich merchant class, and for over 20 years Rembrandt was never without a portrait commission from them. Yet during this time of professional success Rembrandt also faced personal tragedy. His record of his wife's terminal illness reveals a different kind of art, "full of the sense of his love of humanity". Producer Colin Clark