De tentoonstelling van het gipsmodel van het standbeeld van Rembrandt op de tentoonstelling van kunstwerken van levende meesters, in de Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam in 1848.

Belgium’s 1830 secession from the united Kingdom of the Netherlands, established in 1815, was a blow to the Dutch sense of self-respect. The search for a new identity went hand in hand with the rediscovery of national heroes. Naval heroes like Michiel de Ruyter, poets like Vondel and painters like Rembrandt joined the nineteenth-century canon, and statues provided a fitting way to honour them. Thus Rembrandt got his own statue on what was then the Botermarkt (butter market); now the Rembrandtplein. In 1848 the full scale version of Louis Royer’s (1793-1868) plaster model was presented to the public during the ‘Exhibition of Works of Art by Living Artists’ at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts. The cast iron statue - insufficient funds had been received to pay for bronze - was unveiled in Amsterdam on 27 May 1852 by King William III, amidst festivities brimming with national pride.

De tentoonstelling van het gipsmodel van het standbeeld van Rembrandt op de tentoonstelling van kunstwerken van levende meesters, in de Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam in 1848.

Belgium’s 1830 secession from the united Kingdom of the Netherlands, established in 1815, was a blow to the Dutch sense of self-respect. The search for a new identity went hand in hand with the rediscovery of national heroes. Naval heroes like Michiel de Ruyter, poets like Vondel and painters like Rembrandt joined the nineteenth-century canon, and statues provided a fitting way to honour them. Thus Rembrandt got his own statue on what was then the Botermarkt (butter market); now the Rembrandtplein. In 1848 the full scale version of Louis Royer’s (1793-1868) plaster model was presented to the public during the ‘Exhibition of Works of Art by Living Artists’ at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts. The cast iron statue - insufficient funds had been received to pay for bronze - was unveiled in Amsterdam on 27 May 1852 by King William III, amidst festivities brimming with national pride.