Title The life and times of Rembrandt, R.v.R., is an account of the last years and the death of one Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ... who was attended in his afflictions by one Joannis Van Loon, doctor medicinae and chirurgeon in extraordinary ... who during a most busy life yet found time to write down these personal recollections of the greatest of his fellow-citizens and which are now for the first time presented (provided with as few notes, emendations and critical observations as possible) by his great-great-grandson, nine times removed, Hendrik Willem Van Loon.