restoration

lost in thought

Money

"Without it you lost status, face, respect."
- Simon Schama on Rembrandt's bankruptcy 

"You think you know me."

Rembrandt, Self Portrait

The significance of the freehand perfect circle was in answer to critics who dismissed him for not having the skill of classical artists. 

Gospel of Matthew

The poor you will always have with you

one of 83 self-portraits

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

and Warhol

Peter Paul Rubens, The Four Philosophers

"[He made money] by following Jeff Koons's and Damien Hirst's template - and incidentally, Rubens's and Rembrandt's: he maintained an art factory."
- Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty, p.113

The Queen's favorite painting

Portrait of the shipping magnate Jan Rijcksen and his wife Griet Jans, 1633

businessman as hero

Rembrandt van Rijn [1606-1669], Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts, 1631, in the Netherlands the Republic of Money.

Amsterdam

90 islands, 500 bridges.

Image source here.

businessman as hero

Nicholas Rutz in Russian sable fur by Rembrandt [1606-1669]; acquired by J.P. Morgan [1837-1913]