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Saskia van Uylenburgh
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wife of Rembrandt van Rijn
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Saskia
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
- Place of birth
- Leeuwarden
- Place of death
- Amsterdam
- Spouse
- Rembrandt
- Child
- Titus van Rijn
- Father
- Rombertus van Uylenburgh
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Religion
- Reformed Christianity
- Image
- Rembrandt, Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh, 1633, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.jpg
- Residence
- Rembrandt House Museum
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- place of burial
- Oude Kerk
- Commons category
- Saskia van Uylenburgh
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- date of birth
- 1612-01-01
- date of death
- 1642-06-14
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in kana
- サスキア・ファン・アイレンブルフ
- name in native language
- Saskia van Uylenburgh
- date of baptism
- 1612-08-02
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Encyclopedic overview
Saskia van Uylenburgh (Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, Germany), 1633 The Prodigal Son in the Brothel, a self-portrait with Saskia van Uylenburgh (c. 1635) Rembrandt's portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh (c. 1635)
Saskia van Uylenburgh (West Frisian: Saakje fan Uylenburgh; 2 August 1612 – 14 June 1642) was the wife of painter Rembrandt van Rijn. In the course of her life, she was his model for some of his paintings, drawings, and etchings. She was the daughter of Rombertus Uylenburg, the mayor as well as the justice of the Court of Friesland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saskia van Uylenburgh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.