The first Amsterdam period (1631-1635), Rembrandt working with and for Hendrick Uylenburgh

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.