Got an Old Master TO SPARE?

They call him the Rembrandt evangelist. This fall you will understand why.

- BY LEENA KIM

Thomas Kaplan was just a kid when he had his first brush with Rembrandt, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I was completely struck by the power of his painting,” he says. “I want to put that into context: I was six. So the concept that, as André Malraux put it, Rembrandt was the first to touch the soul with his paintings could not have been part of my intellectual or emotional makeup at the time. And yet something about those works moved me.”