13. Portrait of an Old Lady in a Velvet Hood, her Hands
folded

14. Flora with a Flower-trimmed Crook

15. The Descent from the Cross

16. A Young Woman in a Red Chair holding a Pink in her
Right Hand




_The illustrations in this volume have been
engraved and printed at the Menpes Press._




REMBRANDT

CHAPTER I

THE RECOVERERS OF REMBRANDT


Imagine a man, a citizen of London, healthy, middle-aged, successful in
business, whose interest in golf is as keen, according to his lights and
limitations, as the absorption of Rembrandt in art. Suppose this citizen,
having one day a loose half-hour of time to fill in the neighbourhood of