Prinsengracht

This guide to Prinsengracht in Amsterdam follows Rembrandt van Rijn's final years near this canal, from his bankruptcy and the auction of his house and belongings to his death in a rented room in October 1669. It traces the Westerkerk burial register, the fifteen guilders his family paid for a rented grave, and what happened when that grave's twenty-year lease expired around 1689. Look toward the church tower from the canal's edge as you listen.