Yeah, except the Night Watch was a success
Yeah, except the Night Watch was a success. What's wrong with history the way it happened?
No, it is very well known that the subjects of the paining paid for the privelidge of having their portrait painted and were very unhappy with the result- accrording to http://the100.ru/en/painter/rembrandt-van-rijn.html
"But customers, sober, positive and fearing all sorts of surprises, not willing to put up with either the complexity or the audacity of Rembrandt's design and were extremely disappointed.
Many had reason to complain about that (even though they paid a price equal to) their faces in the painting can not be considered, but was dissatisfied and Banning Cock, and he defiantly ordered his portrait Bartholomeus van der Helstu. "
Rembrandt got tired of patrons criticizing his work--especially the faces in their portraits. So he developed a trick sometimes referred to as "the hairy hand," whereby he would put a blemish on one of the hands of the subject in the painting. The patron would be so drawn to that flaw that he/she would invariably say, "Everything looks fine except the hand. Just fix that." And it was much easier to fix the hand than to redo the face, although Rembrandt never let the patron know that.
A person's a person, no matter how small. -- Dr. Seuss