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Last seen in public at the Rembrandt Exhibition brought together by the Royal Academy. Here Rembrandt portrays himself in a picturesque yellow gabardine, girt with a red sash. This year is the very moment of his great disaster = the bankruptcy which destroyed his already much impaired position at Amsterdam. He fronts the spectator squarely, fearlessly, almost with an air of irony and challenge; the presentment realistic as it is has a titanic grandeur that causes it to stand out, unique in the wondrous, the never-ending series off painted and etched auto-portraits. Rich as are the British Collections -- and notably those of the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection

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