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Rembrandt
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Rembrandt, 1659; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Rembrandt attended elementary school from approximately 1612 to 1616. Following this, he attended the Latin School in Leiden from roughly 1616 to 1620, where he focused on classics and biblical studies.1
While he was enrolled at Leiden University in May 1620, it is believed he may have been registered without attending lectures. His first biographer, Jan Janszoon Orlers, noted that Rembrandt was removed from school prematurely at his own request to pursue training as a painter.1