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Portrait of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
As young artists, Rembrandt and Lievens shared a workshop in Leiden. Lievens painted his friend wearing
a metal gorget and a beret. Rembrandt also portrayed himself in the same outfit a number of times during this period. In this little painting Lievens not only recorded his friend’s likeness, but also imitated his style, adopting
Rembrandt’s characteristic dark colours, powerful contrasts of ligh…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- Rijn, Rembrandt van
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- On loan from a private collector
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- Rijn, Rembrandt van
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- On loan from a private collector
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1628
- 1628
Place-Time
- second quarter 17th century
Provenance
- ...; ? purchased in Holland for £5 by Hamlet Winstanley (1694-1756) for James Stanley (1664-1736), 10th Earl of Derby, Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool;{Recorded in an 1801 catalogue of the collection. See Scharf 1875, no. 74} first recorded in an inventory of the paintings at Knowsley Hall, 1736 (‘A head of one of the Earls of Derby, by Lievens. Price £ 6’.);{Scharf 1875, no. 74} by descent to Edward John Stanley (1919-94), 18th Earl of Derby, Knowsley Hall; sale [section The Earl of Derby], London (Christie’s), 17 July 1964, no. 48, as Portrait of a gentleman, to Daan Cevat, St Peter Port, Guernsey; ...; on loan from a private collection to the museum, since 1979
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8896
- SK-C-1598
Extent
- height 57 cm
- width 44.7 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1628
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:18:05.039Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:22.029Z