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Portrait of Hendrikje Stoffels, c.1654-6, oil on canvas, 101.9 x 83.7 cm; National Gallery, London. Hendrickje Stoffels (1626 – 21 July 1663) was the longtime partner of Rembrandt. The couple were unable to marry because of the financial settlement linked to the will of Rembrandt's deceased wife Saskia, but they remained together until ...
Hendrickje Stoffels, the daughter of a soldier, worked as Rembrandt’s housekeeper, eventually becoming his common-law wife and mother of their daughter, Cornelia. While no formal portraits of Stoffels survive, she is believed to have modeled for a number of Rembrandt’s paintings, including this work, perhaps intended as a generic image of a ...
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Rembrandt, Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels, probably 1654-6. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Hendrickje Stoffels came into Rembrandt’s household to look after his infant son after his first wife, Saskia, died. She is thought to have posed for several of his paintings including a portrait, but there is no evidence to confirm this.
Is the model the artist’s young common-law wife, Hendrickje Stoffels, who, like Callisto, had recently been pregnant (with his child) and suffered her own banishment, from her church?
association with Rembrandt. In Rembrandt: Domestic turmoil. In 1649 Hendrickje Stoffels, a young woman from Breedevoort in the eastern part of Gelderland, succeeded Dirckx, first in the function of housekeeper, later in Rembrandt’s affection.
We think that the woman bathing is Hendrickje Stoffels, a young women of 28 who moved into Rembrandt's household on the death of his wife Saskia to look after his baby son, Titus. Rembrandt didn't leave any indication of who the woman bathing is, nor do we know the exact identity of the sitter in this portrait.
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