Artist should remember and try not to use emery (9)

I believe the answer is:

rembrandt

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'artist' is the definition.
(Rembrandt is an example)

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(Other definitions for rembrandt that I've seen before include "17th-cent. Dutch painter" , "Dutch seventeenth-century artist" , "'Night Watch' painter" , "Influential Dutch artist" , "One notably exhibited" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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