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Rembrandt, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism.

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"Portrait of Antoine" by Alfred Jacob Miller (1840) at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore - From the curators' comments: "In the summer of 1837, Alfred Jacob Miller accompanied Captain William Drummond Stewart, a veteran of Wellington's Spanish campaign, on an expedition to the American fur-traders' rendezvous held in the Green River Valley. Antoine Clement, the son of an Indian mother and a French-Canadian father, seen here wearing a buckskin tunic, served as a guide." In other words he's Métis. Pioneer Living, Jacob Miller, Long Hunter, Western Expansion, Rembrandt Paintings, Art Baroque, Istoria Artei, Mountain Men, Baroque Painting

In 1837, the Baltimore-born artist Alfred Jacob Miller accompanied Antoine Clement and his employer, the Scottish nobleman William Drummond Stewart, on a journey to the Rocky Mountains in what is now Wyoming. Clement, whose mother had Native American (Cree) parentage and whose father was French Canadian, was a highly skilled hunter and helped find food for parties traveling to what was then the frontier of United States expansionist activity. He had journeyed with Stewart several times…

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