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Rembrandt's Jan Six: After 350 years watching family foibles, he goes on public display

If portraits could talk, Jan Six might have much to say about his family.

The merchant, poet and civic leader, painted by Rembrandt in 1654, has watched his descendants make money, marry into Holland's best families, engage in infidelities and sometimes quarrel over their fabulous inheritance.

Now one of Rembrandt's most celebrated paintings is on public display until Nov. 29 at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum while the 58-room Six mansion undergoes renovations....
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