Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas This portrait has generally been

This portrait has generally been regarded as a self-portrait by Jan Lievens

Adriaen van der Werff working on it for sixteen weeks and his brother and assistant Pieter van der Werff for ten weeks

More than three hundred and fifty years after she was painted - Rembrandt's ability to conjure up the sense of a living being out of paint can still astound

repeats the nude figure

Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas This portrait has generally beenThis portrait has generally been regarded as a self portrait by Jan Lievens, presumably on the grounds of a certain resemblance to Lievens's features as recorded in Van Dyck's 'Iconographie'. The style, however, suggests a Flemish painter such as Jan Cossiers. Cossiers worked for Rubens in the 1630s, developing a free and fluent style. He painted genre subjects, and became one of Antwerp's leading religious painters.