Two Figure Paintings after Rembrandt

One can paint still life, landscape, all kinds of living creatures, but the most challenging of all genres is undoubtedly figure painting.  It is challenging because the painter not only needs to express the likeness of the subject outwardly, but also the emotion of a human being inwardly.  The 17th century's Dutch master Rembrandt was perhaps the greatest painter of human personality in the history of art.  He especially likes to express human emotion via biblical narrative subjects.  I have recently done two oil paintings in this genre after him: Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (1630) (see the first pair of pictures) and The Jewish Bride (c. 1665-68) (see the second pair of pictures).  The first one depicts that prophet Jeremiah was mourning the destruction of Jerusalem, which happened in 586 B.C.E. by the army of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.  The second one shows the most tender love between a bridal couple based on biblical characters such as Issac and Rebecca.  While the two original paintings are more than thirty years apart, his ability to capture deep human emotion was the same and unparalleled.  No wonder that more than two centuries later, another Dutch master painter Vincent van Gogh was reduced to tears in front of The Jewish Bride, writing that he would gladly give up ten years of his life to sit in front of the painting for two weeks, eating only a stale crust of bread.  I am not as insane as Vincent once was, but can certainly feel the power of timeless truth that Rembrandt was trying to convey via his paintings to us.  Can you?