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Rembrandt was already an independent master in Leiden, but that didn't mean that he could automatically assert himself as a master in Amsterdam, at that time Holland's rapidly expanding metropolis. Although the guild regulations from Amsterdam have not been preserved, we know from those of several other cities that a painter aspiring to establish himself in another town first had to server an obligatory period of one or more years in the workshop of a local master (see Corpus II pp. 56-60). This is probably the main reason that Rembrandt worked for the 'paintings entrepreneur' Hendrick Uylenburgh during this first Amsterdam years. During this time he also lived in Uylenburgh's house.
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Van De Wetering, E. (2014). The first Amsterdam period (1631-1635), Rembrandt working with and for Hendrick Uylenburgh. In: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI. Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9240-0_5
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