Self Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn Antique Print Old Picture 1912 #25

Description: Self Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn Antique Print 1912A colour print from a disbound art book from 1912. The reverse side is blank. Suitable for framing, the actual picture size is approx 7" x 9" or 18cm x 22.5cm printed on textured paper and one side mounted to heavyweight card paper which forms a border. Page size including border mount approx 8.25" x 10.125" This is an antique print from 1912 not a modern copy and does show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print including foxing or marks on the surrounding mount. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used. HIS OWN PORTRAIT By REMBRANDT (1606-1669) IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON Rembrandt is the great genius of the Dutch school of painting, and is numbered among the six great masters of the world. In his own style he is unsurpassed, and when, as in the case of this portrait, he challenges comparisons with other masters, his work acquires an added interest for the art lover. Velazquez was a master of portrait painting, which was his speciality. Rembrandt combined this work with subject painting, in both of which he achieved perfection. It is instructive to compare his portraits with those of Velazquez in order to ascertain the manner in which he rises above even that consummate genius. Velazquez was a supreme colourist, and his portraits show marvellous power and execution, but he lacks the art which conceals art, as it is revealed in such perfection by a study of Rembrandt's canvases. Millais said that "Rembrandt in his first period was very careful and minute in detail, and there is evidence of stippling in his flesh painting; but when he grew older, and in the fullness of his power, all appearance of such manipulation and minuteness vanished in the breadth and facility of his brush, though the advantage of his early manner remained. I have closely examined his pictures at the National Gallery, and have seen beneath that grand veil of breadth, the early work that his art conceals from untrained eyes--the whole science of painting." His own portrait shows his grip of character and his power of suggesting the personality of his subject. It was painted in 1640. Rembrandt achieved success at a very early age, but died in obscurity, unhonoured and unsung. It has been the privilege of modern times to rescue his reputation from oblivion and place him upon the honoured pedestal where his genius now rests securely.

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

End Time: 2025-02-15T00:01:35.000Z

Shipping Cost: 19.57 GBP