Rembrandt (1936) review

Blustery biopic of the life of Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Charles Laughton) as he achieves a small amount of success but his dear wife Saskia passes away, then one of his major paintings gets mocked in a public showing, and then he starts a relationship with Hendrickje Stoffels (Elsa Lanchester) which causes her to be excommunicated.  It falls into the whole "tortured artist" genre - the world is against him, no one "understands" the work, he passes away "completely unknown" and in poverty, etc. - and Laughton does what he can, although his version of the man is more of a prophet or even a philosopher, since he's shown doing more preaching than painting.  Altogether, it's a rather mixed bag, but at least it doesn't conclude with the Master kicking it - instead, he's shown using food money to pay for paint.  Now that's devotion.