Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas This miniature

This miniature

of the Hopes of Hopetoun

It was acquired in 1719 by the French Regent

As Wouwermans developed

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

Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas This miniatureThis 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.