[LINK] "Alumnus donates $80M Rembrandt to Queen’s U."

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The historic lack of anti-Semitism at my alma mater, Queen's University, in the 1930s is responsible for my school's acquisition of so many works of art, as described by the Toronto Star's Sarah-Joyce Battersby.

Queen’s University has been crowned the king of Rembrandt after an alumnus gifted the school with a multimillion-dollar painting by the Dutch master.

Alfred and Isabel Bader’s recent donation of Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo to the University’s Agnes Etherington Art Centre makes the school home to the largest collection of Rembrandt paintings in Canada.

“It really establishes the Agnes and Queen’s University as a major destination for the study and enjoyment of Rembrandt in North America,” Jacquelyn Coutré, who curates the Bader collection for the museum, told the Star.

In fact, every one of the three Rembrandts in the school’s collection was donated by the Baders.

Rembrandt may be one of the biggest names in the art world, but his paintings adorn few Canadian walls.