Rembrandt van Rijn - Portrait of a young man 1663
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Portrait of a young man 1663
78x64cm oil/canvas
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Dulwich Picture Gallery, London:
Despite some doubts in the past, recent scholarly opinion has favoured the attribution of this sensitive and subtly lit portrait to Rembrandt. The broad brushstrokes and impasto paint indicates this is from his late style of the 1660s. When Bourgeois bought the work in 1807 the sitter was thought to be the artist Philips Wouwerman but, born in 1619, he would have been in his forties at the time this was painted, not the age of the young man depicted here. The sitter has since been identified as Rembrandt’s only son Titus, but the presence of the books just discernable in the background, makes it more likely that this is a portrait of a scholar.