 In most of his writing and lectures, Van de Wetering portrays Rembrandt as a painter who struggled to create as many marketable paintings as possible, and whose studio turned out a large number of paintings with varying amounts of work by Rembrandt and his apprentices.He was also able to discover a number of Rembrandt's works which had been repainted by the artist to make them more commercially acceptable.In 2006, in celebration of Rembrandt's 400th birthday, Van de Wetering was quoted by the Associate Press saying