List of Rembrandt connoisseurs and scholars

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn in one of the best expertly researched (visual) artists in history. His life and work have long attracted the attention of multidisciplinary scholarship. The field of Rembrandt studies (i.e. study of Rembrandt's life and work) — as an academic field in its own right with many noted Rembrandt scholars — has been very dynamic and well published since the Dutch Golden Age.

The following is a list of notable Rembrandt experts (e.g. connoisseurs and scholars).


 * Filippo Baldinucci
 * Adam Bartsch
 * Kurt Bauch
 * Otto Benesch
 * Harry Berger, Jr.
 * Holm Bevers
 * Jan Białostocki
 * Michael Bockemühl
 * Wilhelm von Bode
 * Pascal Bonafoux
 * Abraham Bredius
 * B.P.J. Broos
 * Broos, B.P.J.: Oude tekeningen in het bezit van de Gemeentemusea van Amsterdam waaronder de collectie Fodor [Deel 3]: Rembrandt en tekenaars uit zijn omgeving. (Amsterdam: Amsterdams Historisch Museum, 1981) [in Dutch]
 * Broos, B.P.J.: Rembrandt en zijn voorbeelden [Rembrandt and his sources]. (Amsterdam: Museum Het Rembrandthuis, 1985) [in Dutch]
 * Broos, B.P.J.: Rembrandt studies. (Ph.D. diss., Universiteit Utrecht, 1977) [in Dutch]
 * Broos, B.P.J.: Index to the Formal Sources of Rembrandt's Art. (Maarssen, Netherlands: Gary Schwartz, 1977)
 * Broos, B.P.J.: Het Rembrandt boek. (Zwolle: Waanders, 2006) ISBN 9040091110 [in Dutch]
 * Broos, B.P.J.: Saskia, de vrouw van Rembrandt. (Zwolle: Wbooks, 2012) [in Dutch]
 * Broos, B.P.J. (1971), 'The 'O' of Rembrandt,'. Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 4(3): 150–84
 * Broos, B.P.J. (1974), 'Rembrandt's Portrait of a Pole and His Horse,'. Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 7(4): 192–218
 * Broos, B.P.J. (1976), 'Rembrandt and Lastman's "Coriolanus": The History Piece in 17th-Century Theory and Practice,'. Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 8(4): 199–228
 * Broos, B.P.J. (1999), 'Rembrandt and His Picturesque Universe: The Artist's Collection as a Source of Inspiration,'. In: Rembrandt's Treasures, ed. Bob van den Boogert [exh. cat.]. (Amsterdam: Rembrandt House Museum; Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1999), pp. 91–13
 * Broos, B.P.J. (2009), 'Rembrandt & Saskia: Recent Research,'. Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 51. Bd., Beiheft. Rembrandt — Wissenschaft auf der Suche. Beiträge des Internationalen Symposiums Berlin — 4. und 5. November 2006 (2009): 9–15.
 * Broos, B.P.J. (2013), 'The Young Samuel van Hoogstraten Corrected by Rembrandt,'. In: The Universal Artof Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627–1678): Painter, Writer and Courtier, edited by Thijs Weststeijn. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013), pp. 77–95
 * Josua Bruyn
 * Margaret D. Carroll
 * H. Perry Chapman
 * Kenneth Clark
 * Paul Crenshaw
 * Marieke de Winkel
 * Stephanie S. Dickey
 * Dickey, Stephanie S.: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn: The Illustrated Bartsch, Vol. 50 [Supplement]. (New York: Abaris Books, 1993)
 * Dickey, Stephanie S.: Prints, Portraits and Patronage in Rembrandt's Work around 1640. (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1994)
 * Dickey, Stephanie S.: Rembrandt: Portraits in Print. (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004)
 * Dickey, Stephanie S.: Rembrandt Face to Face. (Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2006)
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (1986), 'Judicious Negligence: Rembrandt Transforms an Emblematic Convention,'. Art Bulletin 68: 253–262
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (1996), 'Mennonite Martyrdom in Amsterdam and the Art of Rembrandt and His Contemporaries,'. Proceedings of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies 9: 81–103
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (2007), 'Rethinking Rembrandt's  Renaissance,'. Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies 21: 1–22
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (2011), 'Saskia as Glycera: Rembrandt's Emulation of an Antique Prototype,'. In:  Anton Boschloo, et  al. (eds.), Aemulatio: Emulation, Imitation, and Invention in Netherlandish Art. (Amsterdam: Waanders, 2011), pp. 233–247
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (2012), 'Strategies of Self-Portraiture from Hans von Aachen to Rembrandt,'. In: Lubmomír Konecny & Stepán Vácha (eds.), Hans von Aachen in Context: Proceedings of the International Conference, Prague, 22–25 September  2010. (Prague: Artefactum,  2012), pp. 72–81
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (2013), 'Begging for Attention: The Artful Context of Rembrandt's Etching Beggar Seated on a Bank,'. JHNA: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 5(2).
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (2015), 'Contentione perfectus: Rembrandt and Annibale Carracci,'. In: Una Roman D'Elia (ed.), Rethinking Renaissance Drawings: Essays in Honour of David McTavish. (Montreal: McGill/Queens Press,  2015), pp. 262–277
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (2016), 'Rembrandt and his Circle,'. In: Wayne Franits (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2016), pp. 169–201
 * Dickey, Stephanie (2017), 'Disgust and Desire: Responses to Rembrandt's Nudes,'. In: Debra Cashion, Henry Luttikhuizen and Ashley West, The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700. Essays in Honor of Larry Silver. (Brill, 2017) ISBN 978-90-04-35412-8), pp. 447–460
 * Dickey, Stephanie (2017), 'Agape, Caritas, and Conjugal Love in Paintings by Rembrandt and Van Dyck,'. In: Walter S. Melion, Joanna Woodall, and Michael Zell (eds.), Ut Pictura Amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500–1700. (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017), pp. 299–323
 * Dickey, Stephanie S. (2017), 'Introduction: Rising Stars in Rembrandt's Amsterdam,'. In: Stephanie S. Dickey (ed.), Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck: New  Reearch. (Zwolle: W. Books, 2017), pp. 6–19
 * Eugène Dutuit
 * Edme-François Gersaint
 * Zhenya Gershman
 * Horst Gerson
 * Amy Golahny
 * Golahny, Amy: Rembrandt's Paintings and the Venetian Tradition. (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1984)
 * Golahny, Amy: Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003) ISBN 90-5356-609-0
 * Golahny, Amy (1983), 'Rembrandt's Early 'Bathsheba': The Raphael Connection,'. The Art Bulletin 65(4): 671–675.
 * Golahny, Amy (1999), 'Rembrandt's Practical Approach to Italian Art: Three Variations,'. The Low Countries 7: 123–31
 * Golahny, Amy (2000), 'Rembrandt's "Artemisia": Arts Patron,'. Oud Holland 14(2/4): 139–152.
 * Golahny, Amy (2001), 'Reception: Reflections on Rembrandt,'. Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies 25(2): 159–161.
 * Golahny, Amy (2001), 'The Use and Misuse of Rembrandt: An Overview of Popular Reception,'. Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies 25(2): 305–322
 * Golahny, Amy (2002), 'Rembrandt's Drawing of "Pyrrhus and Fabricius": A New Interpretation,'. Master Drawings 40(3): 243–248.
 * Golahny, Amy (2007), 'Selective Attention: Julius S. Held's Rembrandt Studies,'. Oud Holland: Journal for Art of the Low Countries 120(3/4): 181–190.
 * Golahny, Amy (2009), 'Rembrandt and Italy: Beyond the disegno-colore Paradigm,'. Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen Neue Folge 51: 113–120
 * Golahny, Amy (2011), 'Rembrandt's Callisto: Unusual but not Unique,'. In: A. Boschloo, et al. (eds.): Aemulatio, Imitation, Emulation and Invention in Netherlandish Art from 1500 to 1800. Essays in honor of Eric Jan Sluijter. (Zwolle: Waanders, 2011), pp. 318–25
 * Golahny, Amy (2012), 'Lievens and Rembrandt: Parallels and Divergences,'. The Low Countries 20: 189–92
 * Golahny, Amy (2016), 'Rembrandt and "Everyday Life": The Fusion of Genre and History,'. In: Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives, edited by Arthur J. DiFuria. (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 161–183
 * Golahny, Amy (2017), 'Early Reception of Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print: Jan Steen's Emulation,'. JHNA: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 9(1).
 * Cornelis Hofstede de Groot
 * Bob Haak
 * Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert; Judson, J. Richard; Logan, Anne-Marie: Rembrandt after Three Hundred Years: An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969)
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert: Rembrandt's The Nightwatch. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982)
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert (1963), 'Rembrandt's So-Called Portrait of Anna Wymer as Minerva,'. In: Studies in Western Art: Acts of the Twentieth International Congress of the History of Art, New York, 1961, 3: 59–63
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert (1967), 'Purpose and Style: Oil Sketches of Rubens, Jan Brueghel, Rembrandt,'. In: Akten des 21. Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte in Bonn 1964: Stil und Überlieferung in der Kunst des Abendlandes, 3: 104–13
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert (1971), 'The Present State of Rembrandt Studies,'. The Art Bulletin 53(1): 88–104
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert (1971), 'The Sketch, Its Function in the Hands of Three Masters: Rubens, Rembrandt, Jan Brueghel,'. Art News Annual 37: 57–74
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert (1972), 'Rembrandt as Teacher,'. In: Actes du XXIIe Congres International d'histoire de l'art. Budapest 1969: Evolution generale et développements régionaux en histoire de l'art, edited by György Rósza, pp. 105–13
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert (1973), 'Rembrandt's Night Watch and the Triumph of Mordecai,'. In: Album Amicorum J. G. van Gelder, edited by Joos Bruyn, et al., (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973), pp. 5–8
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert (1989), 'Rembrandt as a Draughtsman: The Changing Image 1956–1988,'. Master Drawings 27(2): 105–10
 * Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert (2005), 'Rembrandt's Drawing The Raising of the Cross in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,'. In: The Learned Eye: Regarding Art, Theory, and the Artist’s Reputation. Essays for Ernst van de Wetering, edited by Marieke van den Doel, et al. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005), pp. 39–46
 * Julius S. Held
 * Arthur Mayger Hind
 * Erik Hinterding
 * Arnold Houbraken
 * Constantijn Huygens
 * Thomas Kaplan
 * Nigel Konstam
 * Gerard de Lairesse
 * Arthur Pillans Laurie
 * Frits Lugt
 * François Émile Michel
 * Nadler, Steven
 * Perlove, Shelley
 * Jakob Rosenberg
 * Albert Rothenberg
 * Martin Royalton-Kisch
 * Joachim von Sandrart
 * Catherine B. Scallen
 * Simon Schama
 * Peter Schatborn
 * James A. Schirillo
 * Gary Schwartz
 * Woldemar von Seidlitz
 * Larry Silver
 * Seymour Slive
 * Eric Jan Sluijter
 * Werner Sumowski
 * Christian Tümpel
 * Wilhelm Valentiner
 * Gregor J. M. Weber
 * Ernst van de Wetering
 * Samuel van Hoogstraten
 * Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
 * Christopher White
 * Michael Zell