Rembrandt 'Spoke to Me,' Says Investor Thomas Kaplan

The speaker shares a personal journey from a childhood fascination with Rembrandt to becoming an art collector. Initially uninterested in collecting, encouragement from his mother-in-law led to acquiring Dutch Golden Age paintings, forming the Leiden Collection. The collection, one of the largest private Rembrandt collections, has been exhibited at the Louvre. The speaker emphasizes the importance of making the collection's scholarship accessible and maintaining Rembrandt's relevance.

What led the speaker to eventually become an art collector?

What is the Leiden collection and how many works does it contain?