Where did Rembrandt van Rijn grow up and live?

📍Jodenbreestraat 4, 1011 NK Amsterdam, Netherlands

1639 – 1669

“I bought the house on the Sint Anthonisbreestraat — now the Jodenbreestraat — in Amsterdam's Jewish quarter in 1639, at the height of my success. It was a large house and I filled it with art: paintings, prints, busts, weapons, exotic fabrics — everything that might serve as a prop or source of visual inspiration. I went bankrupt in 1656 and the house and its contents were sold to pay creditors. I moved to a smaller house on the Rozengracht and continued working. The Night Watch was painted in the Jodenbreestraat years. The bankruptcy paintings are the greater achievement.”

👍 LovedThe Amsterdam Jewish quarter's human variety — the faces and textures that appear throughout my work. The house as studio and collection. The light of Amsterdam in all its grey northern quality.

👎 DislikedThe bankruptcy that stripped me of everything. The deaths of my wife Saskia and my son Titus before me. The critical neglect of the late work that I now know was my best.

Map showing where Rembrandt van Rijn lived — Jodenbreestraat 4, 1011 NK Amsterdam, Netherlands

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Rembrandt van Rijn's home at Jodenbreestraat 4, 1011 NK Amsterdam, Netherlands

📍 Street view today

Sources: Schama, S. Rembrandt's Eyes (1999), Knopf; White, C. Rembrandt (1984), Thames & Hudson