Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633 van Rijn Rembrandt (1606-1669)

We create our paintings with museum quality and covering the highest academic standards. Once we get your order, it will be entirely hand-painted with oil on canvas. All the materials we use are the highest level, being totally artist graded painting materials and linen canvas.

We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.

High quality and detailing in every inch are time consuming. The reproduction of van Rijn Rembrandt also needs time to dry in order to be completely ready for shipping, as this is crucial to not be damaged during transportation.
Based on the size, level of detail and complexity we need 9-10 weeks to complete the process.

In case the delivery date needs to be extended in time, or we are overloaded with requests, there will be an email sent to you sharing the new timelines of production and delivery.

TOPofART wants to remind you to keep patient, in order to get you the highest quality, being our mission to fulfill your expectations.

We not stretch and frame our oil paintings due to several reasons:
Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.
Also, there are postal restrictions, regarding the size of the shipment.
Additionally, due to the dimensions of the stretched canvas, the shipment price may exceed the price of the product itself.

You can stretch and frame your painting in your local frame-shop.

Once the painting Storm on the Sea of Galilee is ready and dry, it will be shipped to your delivery address. The canvas will be rolled-up in a secure postal tube.

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The paintings we create are only of museum quality. Our academy graduated artists will never allow a compromise in the quality and detail of the ordered painting. TOPofART do not work, and will never allow ourselves to work with low quality studios from the Far East. We are based in Europe, and quality is our highest priority.

Rembrandt’s "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee", from 1633, is a painting that drips with tension, not just because of its subject, but in the way it swirls with movement. He captures chaos in paint as if the brushstrokes are riding the very waves that threaten to swallow this fragile little boat whole. Look at how the light crashes down, spotlighting the figures battling against nature itself - but Rembrandt, in his genius, doesn't stop there.

The sea is not just water. It’s a living, breathing beast in this painting. The boat? A speck. The crew? Helpless figures clutching ropes, sails, anything to keep themselves tethered to the world above, while the dark abyss below beckons with open arms. And Jesus? Not exactly the serene, calm centerpiece you'd expect. He’s right there, caught in the thick of it, holding a posture that suggests calm amidst the panic, but still very much a part of the scene, not standing above it. Rembrandt’s play of light - his signature, really - isn't just dramatic; it’s almost biblical. The sea churns and roars, but the light that hits Christ and his disciples whispers of some divine presence, perhaps a promise that this madness will subside.

It’s easy to forget this is a religious painting. It doesn’t moralize or preach. Instead, it thrums with life, fear, and human frailty. Then, of course, there’s the theft. The empty frame now hanging at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is like the ghost of the storm itself - a reminder of something powerful and profound that has been ripped away. Would we even remember this seascape so vividly if it hadn’t vanished into thin air? The heist gives it an afterlife that almost mirrors the way Rembrandt’s waves seem ready to swallow the viewer whole.