Lei Huanxi understood that the paintings hanging on the walls must be all Rembrandt's masterpieces!

Walton seemed to have no idea what these people were thinking:

"Gentlemen, the Netherlands in the 17th century was an era of painting trends, but at that time, paintings were mainly for portraits for various classes in the city, so whether the employer's satisfaction was the key to whether a painter could succeed. At this time, there was a successful painter in the Netherlands, Rembrandt.

Rembrandt was successful in his early years. At that time, his paintings were very popular in the Netherlands, so he lived a very superior life. Rembrandt's wife was the daughter of a declining nobleman. In order to maintain the family's dignity, Rembrandt bought a large house, which also provided his wife with extravagant squandering by his brothers.

Later, a company commander named Benning Kirk and his sixteen militiamen each gave 100 shields to ask Rembrandt to draw a collective image. Rembrandt did not place all the sixteen people at the banquet table as popular at the time and draw a dull portrait, but designed a scene himself, as if the sixteen people had received orders to go on a patrol and were preparing for their own differently.

This painting uses a strong contrast of light and dark painting, and uses light to shape the shape. The picture is rich in layers and dramatic. From any point of view, it is an absolute masterpiece. However, the vulgar militias stopped doing it, and they all gave a hundred shields. Why do some people are so obvious in the painting but they have to hide behind them? The militias asked the painter to paint a new portrait.

However, out of the artistic sense of a painter, he insisted on his artistic proposition and the creative party, Bronnon insisted on not painting a new painting. This incident caused a lot of controversy throughout Amsterdam. After this, no one asked Rembrandt to draw a collective portrait. In this difficult process, Rembrandt's wife died after giving birth to a son for him.

Rembrandt was a man who could do everything to paint. When he walked into the studio, he might have been completely devoted to painting for several weeks. In order to take care of his son, Lun invited a young village woman with no culture to be a nanny, and later gave birth to a child with her. The whole Amsterdam was excited. They thought it was a scandal. The entire petty squad was in a situation where he had the opportunity to splash dirty water on his noble soul. Everyone was watching the show, everyone was ridiculing the painter, and the Calvinist priest also began to condemn the village woman. This next more violent storm broke out.

No one came to ask Rembrandt to paint anymore, and only various creditors began to come to collect debts. Rembrandt's life was in trouble since then.

Rembrandt had a difficult life in his later years, his family property was auctioned, and there were not many buyers of oil paintings, only etched prints with religious themes were customized. One of the works named "100 Dutch Coin Printing" was named according to its price. A noble soul fell into decline, and the Dutch School of Painting began to decline since then.

After the "Night Patrol" was taken back by the militia, it was too big to hang it in the foyer, so it cut off the whole painting itself, causing the entire painting to lose its original balance.

The hall where the painting was hung was burning peat for open flames to keep warm. A thick layer of coal ash fell on the painting, making the whole painting dull, so that in the 18th century people believed that this scene, which was originally daytime, was carried out at night, so they named him "Night Watch".

This painting has its own separate room in the Rijkswagen of Amsterdam. When we stare at it, we feel like life is flowing on the canvas..."

Everyone was there listening.

When Makis heard this, he couldn't help asking: "Mr. Walton, how much can these paintings, Rembrandt's paintings, be worth? I mean, I mean here..."

He was really embarrassed to say all his thoughts.

"How much is it worth?" Walton smiled, and his eyes swept across the painting on the wall: "Let me tell you a true story, this story also happened in the United States. There are three brothers, whose mother passed away one year..."

After cleaning up the relics left by his mother, the three of them prepared to sell their mother's house and share the money they had earned. In addition, they also planned to collect some valuable items and exchange them for more cash together.

After sorting it out, they found a group of silver tea sets, an old ping-pong table, an old painting that they were all very familiar with, and some other things. However, at that time, the three of them were not very interested in this painting.

"There is a woman fainting in a chair. Two men are sniffing her salt and trying to wake her up."

After the grandfather of the three brothers passed away, the painting was shelved in their basement for several years. The three later decided to set up a large clearance and sell the painting and the other three to an auction house.

The auction house assessor estimated that the silverware of the three brothers and the three paintings, including this painting, could be sold for about a few thousand dollars in total.

"The paint on this painting has been broken, and some parts are still missing. It's not very beautiful, and the three people on it are not very beautiful. It's really ordinary. The whole oil painting looks dark and faded. One of the three people on the painting faints."

However, after the auction house was released, the auction price rose from $250 to the highest expected value of $800 that the appraiser had.

Then, things evolved very unexpectedly, with an auction call from France directly pushing the paintings to as high as 5,000 US dollars. Then, a bidder from Germany raised the price to 80,000 US dollars, followed by a hundred thousand US dollars.

It took less than a long time to bid for the auction price of this painting soared to 400,000 US dollars.

This painting is exactly the early work of Rembrandt and one of the many works that have been lost before. The official title is "The Unconscious Patient". Finally, bidders from France bought the painting at a high price of $1.1 million.

Since the unshot works cannot be verified, bidders did not appraise the painting until they received the painting. After the identification was confirmed as the original, they immediately reselled the painting to collectors, and the price sold at this time had reached about four million US dollars.

But the three brothers who initially sold the painting could no longer share the money.

This is probably their biggest tragedy.

At this point when Walton's story goes, the Markies' family is completely stunned.

Four million dollars?

A copy of Rembrandt's early works actually sold for four million dollars?

Oh my God.
Chapter completed!