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Why did Rembrandt not marry Hendrickje Stoffels?
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Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Rembrandt, 1659; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Rembrandt did not marry Hendrickje Stoffels because of legal and financial complications surrounding the inheritance of his son, Titus, from his first marriage to Saskia van Uylenburgh. These inheritance issues prevented a formal marriage, leading the couple to live together as common-law partners from 1649 until Stoffels's death in 1663.1