The Rembrandt Collection Narrated by Marius Goring
The Hermitage Museum in Leningrad has the most spectacular collection of Rembrandts in the world, outside Amsterdam. Most of them were bought by Catherine the Great who, as she put it, ' got her claws into' the collection of an English Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. There are no self-portraits, but every other phase of the artist's career is there, notably some of Rembrandt's greatest pictures inspired by the Bible - The Sacrifice of Isaac, David and Jonathan, The Prodigal Son.
Written by MICHAEL KITSON Produced by DEREK BAILEY A Landseer Film