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Description: | Rembrandt used his early self-portraits to explore the effects of light and to experiment with facial expression. The first painting by Rembrandt to enter a British collection was his Self-portrait as a young man c.1630 (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool - WAG1011), presented to Charles I in the early 1630s by one of his courtiers, Sir Robert Kerr, Earl of Ancrum. Sir Robert had acquired it after a diplomatic visit to The Hague in 1629, along with another painting by Rembrandt An old woman: The Artist's Mother, which is still in the Royal Collection today. The Wigan painting is close in terms of composition, tone and clothing to the Rembrandt but the facial features are very different and do not seem to represent Rembrandt. It is more likely that this is a portrait of an unknown sitter by an English artist working in the manner of Rembrandt. | Subjects: | portrait (Rembrandt van Rijn) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch painter, draftsman and printmaker, 1606-1669) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8323... | Go to resource |
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