The drawing is remarkable in its feeling for the Rembrandtesque style. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
The dead face was turned up to the light, Rembrandtesque, coming through the door. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
“Baptism of Vajk” uses Rembrandtesque lighting and a lot of variety of paint texture. From Wordnik.com. [Forgotten Master: Gyula Benczúr] Reference
The Rembrandtesque qualities of Lievens's brooding nocturnal scenes, character studies, fancy-dress exotica, and superb prints are undeniable, but current scholarship suggests that it was Lievens, not Rembrandt, who originated them. From Wordnik.com. [An Engaging Museum Show] Reference
The two portraits of himself with his black cocker spaniel, both of 1842, are still overtly Rembrandtesque: in the first he presents himself as cultivated and slightly aloof; in the second, he looks positively princely, and so in a sense he was. From Wordnik.com. [The Born Rebel Artist] Reference
In the rich brown atmosphere peculiar to back rooms in the mansion of a Forsyte, the Rembrandtesque effect of his great head, with its white hair, against the cushion of his high-backed seat, was spoiled by the moustache, which imparted a somewhat military look to his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Property] Reference
From the mantelshelf the lamp emitted its feeble rays, dimly lighting the lonely chamber, and holding, as with uncertain hand, the shadows which crowded and cowered in the distant corners and recesses of the room, and throwing into Rembrandtesque the pallid face of the wakeful mother, and the flushed and fevered face of the slumbering child. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
Rembrandtesque effects, the elegance in design of the fifteenth-century. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Pleasure] Reference
Rembrandtesque gradations of gloom, or glitterings of sword-hilt and armour. From Wordnik.com. [Mornings in Florence] Reference
Rembrandtesque on the current, or banks, of a river; but it is on those of a drain. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
Rembrandtesque manner on account of the objection of his sitters to be thus painted. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference
The fire-light, flickering over Mrs. Greyne's majestic features, made them look Rembrandtesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905] Reference
Burmese harness-makers, almost every stall showing some pretty colour and Rembrandtesque lamplight effect. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
Color is not Rembrandtesque, usually, in a clean house; but is presently obtainable of that quality in a dirty one. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
Israels (1824 -) is a revival or a survival of Rembrandtesque methods with a sentiment and feeling akin to the French Millet. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Painting] Reference
Under the shaded lamplight their faces, dominated by that cold masterly figure at the head of the table, were almost Rembrandtesque. From Wordnik.com. [A Prince of Sinners] Reference
It is probably true that he could not then have produced an elaborate composition, but his faces were Rembrandtesque from the very first. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference
But it gave a Rembrandtesque quality to the London scene, turned it into mysterious arrangements of brown shadows and cones and bars of light. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Britling Sees It Through] Reference
The old shabby room, with its points of bright light, and its shadowy sides and corners, made a Rembrandtesque setting for the moving throng of figures. From Wordnik.com. [The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend] Reference
If so many "Rembrandts" have turned out to be by Lievens, could it be that the Rembrandtesque in general should in fact be rethought as a riff on Lievensism?. From Wordnik.com. [Charlottesville Blogs] Reference
"I will not disguise from you, Eustace," continued Mrs. Greyne, looking increasingly Rembrandtesque, "that, in my present work, I am taking a somewhat new departure.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905] Reference
Within, you behold a picturesque confusion of rude chairs set among barrels and vats full of dark red wine where, amid Rembrandtesque surroundings, you can get as drunk as a lord for sixpence. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
The firelight played about the room, illuminating now one thing, now another, making Claude's face and head, sometimes his musical hands look Rembrandtesque, powerful, imaginative, even mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of Ambition] Reference
His style has been pronounced akin to that of Eugène Carrière; his sense of values on a par with Goya's and Rembrandt's (that Shop Window of his in the Durand-Ruel collection is truly Rembrandtesque). From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
The subdued light, which streams from numerous but feeble oil-lamps through the atmosphere of fragrant vapour steamed up by the tea-urns, falls with Rembrandtesque contrast of light and shadow on the long ranks of faces. From Wordnik.com. [Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth] Reference
By the light of the riding-lamp on the mizzen mast (its glass patched with an old jam cover), they in their angular wet oil-skins -- the rain was pelting -- and the rich wet brown of the boat's varnish, made a wonderful Rembrandtesque picture. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
The latter was a relic of better days -- a spared relic, which the public had refused to buy at any price, though the auctioneer had described it as a rare specimen of one of the old -- the very old -- masters, with Rembrandtesque proclivities. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Trawler] Reference
One goes through a vast Rembrandtesque shed opening upon a great sunny field, in whose cool shadows rest a number of interesting patients; captured and slightly damaged German machines, machines of our own with scars of battle upon them, one or two cases of bad landing. From Wordnik.com. [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference
Head of fine type, carried well on the shoulders and in walking with the impression of being a little thrown back; long brown hair, falling from under a broadish-brimmed Spanish form of soft felt hat, Rembrandtesque; loose kind of Inverness cape when walking, and invariable velvet jacket inside the house. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
I can now conjure up the gaunt and sombre houses of this thick-clustering stronghold; the Rembrandtesque shadows, the streets devoid of men, the picture of some martial hero in a cavern-like recess where I sought shelter from the heat, a black crucifix planted in the soil below the entrance of the village -- my picture of Saracinesca is complete, in outline. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
A Forsyte, the Rembrandtesque effect of his great head, with its white hair, against the cushion of his high-backed seat, was spoiled by the moustache, which imparted a somewhat military look to his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
The Rembrandtesque head nodded. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905] Reference
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