Rembrandt's rise, China's internet and a McQueen retrospective – the week in art

The Ashmolean explores the work of the miller’s son from Leiden while the National Gallery looks at a 17th-century Dutch master of secrecy and sin – all in your weekly dispatch

Young Rembrandt
Come face-to-face with the miller’s son from Leiden as he paints his way to fame, profundity and genius. Young Rembrandt could have gone to university but convinced his parents to let him study art instead. He soon set himself apart with audacious history paintings and searching self-portraits. A chance to see how one of art’s all-time greats started out.
• Ashmolean, Oxford, until 1 November.

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