林布蘭的影響：

　林布蘭擅長歷史畫、肖像畫、風景畫以及風俗畫，同時，也精於圖案繪製及版畫。林布蘭是有史以來最偉大的畫家之一。

　就繪畫教學而論，林布蘭是當時最具影響力的大作家之一，他可以說曾經左右了整個歐洲的繪畫方向，在他眾多的學生中，著名約有卡勒 (Carel) 和巴倫特．法布利契亞斯 (Barent Fabritius)、富林克(Govert Flinck)、麥斯(Nicolaes Maes)、侯克斯特拉登 (Samuel van Hoogstraten)、德洛斯特 (WillemDrost) 及吉爾德 (Aert de Gelder)等人。
在林布蘭那個時代，沒有一位畫家像他那樣繪製了如此多量的自畫像，正如畫他人的肖像一般，他畫自畫像的動機，也是由於對人性本質所產生的強烈興趣而產生。

　國人熟知的十九世紀荷蘭畫家-梵谷，也深受荷蘭國寶大師林布蘭影響。除靈感發想自“林布蘭自畫像”創作出多幅著名的“梵谷自畫像”外，甚至西元1888年時，梵谷看完林布蘭的“猶太新娘”畫作後更是振筆直書，向他哥哥傾訴對於林布蘭的崇高敬仰，梵谷提道：他將會非常高興能以十年生命為代價，換取坐在這幅畫(林布蘭-猶太新娘)前面14天的機會，即便這兩個禮拜他只能夠啃乾麵包渡日…

(原文: In 1888 Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo that he thought about Rembrandt far more than his studies might suggest. That was no understatement. To look at his work he seems to have absorbed little of Rembrandt's influence, yet from his letters it is clear that Van Gogh's interest in the 17th-century master remained with him throughout his life. When he visited the newly opened Rijksmuseum in 1885, for example, he declared that he would gladly have given ten years of his life to have been able to sit for fourteen days in front of The Jewish Bride "with barely a crust of dry bread to eat".)

參考資料出處：( 荷蘭觀光局 http://www.holland.idv.tw/news-2003-01_29.htm)