Tobit and Anna with the Kid
Arrowood 2000 after Rembrandt 1625
Oil on Panel 15 3/4” x 11 3/4”
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Arrowood 2001 after Rembrandt 1633
Oil on Canvas 63” x 50”
The Lost Rembrandt
"I had been considering painting Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee”, but finding a good reference was proving difficult. The four that I had found could have been four different paintings. That is the problem that one encounters when attempting a reproduction...The solution is to work before the Master’s original, but that is not always possible.
My problem appeared to be solved when I found a Gardner Museum brochure on the floor at the Boston Museum Of Fine Arts...It’s cover pictured Rembrandt‘s “Storm” and I made plans to view the painting at the Gardner Museum the next day.
Unfortunately, that was not possible, because I and the rest of the world had been robbed one evening on St. Patrick’s Day in 1990. On that evening, two men in police uniforms faked their way into the Museum, bound and gagged the security staff, and used razors to slice several pictures from their frames...In 2007, Rembrandt’s only seascape remains lost to all of us."
The Artist in His Studio
Arrowood 2001 after Rembrandt 1628
Oil on Panel 10” x 13”