Titus and Hendrickje stepped in to act jointly as his art dealers when Rembrandt was unable to trade under his own name due to prohibitive bankruptcy laws. His fine art collection and his exotic antiques – the latter often appearing as props in his paintings – also went to auction. It was Titus and Hendrickje, the woman he’d initially employed as his maid, who had kept the artist financially afloat after he’d been forced to sell, in 1656, his grand house in Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter (now the Rembrandt House Museum). Titus, then just a year old, was to be the only one of the couple’s four children to survive into adulthood, the others living only days or weeks. In fact, she died the year The Night Watch, his great, life-sized painting of one of Amsterdam’s civic militia companies, was finished. Rembrandt had outlived all of his children by his wife, Saskia, who had died 27 years earlier, at the height of his success. Eight odd details hidden in masterpieces You can see it today it’s a copy of the one that adorns the colonnaded wall – just above the plumed helmet of one of the ceremonial pike carriers – in Rembrandt’s most famous painting The Night Watch. In 1909, a memorial stone was finally fixed to the north wall of the Westerkerk, the Dutch Reformed Church in Amsterdam where he’d been buried. After 20 years, as was customary for those who had died in poverty, his remains were dug up and discarded. When Rembrandt van Rijn died aged 63 in 1669, he was buried in an unmarked grave, in a plot owned by the church.

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