In this major 2020 exhibition, we explored the meteoric rise of Rembrandt, from his first tentative works as a teenager in his home town of Leiden, to the sublime masterpieces he produced in Amsterdam ten years later. Young Rembrandt was open at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK) until 1 November 2020.

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This landmark show explored the early years of the career of the most famous of all Dutch artists, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669). Beginning with his earliest known paintings, prints and drawings made in the mid-1620s, and ending at the moment he rockets to stardom in Amsterdam in the mid-1630s, this exhibition charts an astonishing transformation.

This was the largest collection of works devoted to the young Rembrandt and included over 30 of his paintings, and 90 drawings and prints from international and private collections. On display for the first time was the newly discovered painting Let the Little Children Come to Me.

This was an unprecedented opportunity to examine young Rembrandt’s work and observe his remarkable metamorphosis from insecure teenager to the greatest Dutch painter of all time.

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