A Shadow in Rembrandt’s Light: The Enigmatic World of Willem Drost Willem Drost remains one of the most intriguing and, for a long time, tragically overlooked figures within the constellation of Dutch Golden Age painters. Born in Amsterdam in 1633 and dying at barely twenty-six years old in 1659, his artistic output is remarkably small – a handful of paintings that have only recently begun to receive the critical attention they deserve. For centuries, Drost’s work was largely relegated to the shadows of his master, Rembrandt van Rijn, with many of his creations mistakenly attributed to the m…