After a brief but important apprenticeship of six months with the history painter Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, Rembrandt stayed a few months with Jacob Pynas and then started his own workshop, though Simon van Leeuwen claimed that Joris van Schooten taught Rembrandt in Leiden.
After a brief but significant apprenticeship of six months with the history painter Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, Rembrandt spent a few months with Jacob Pynas and then established his own workshop; Simon van Leeuwen asserted that Joris van Schooten taught Rembrandt in Leiden.