£7 Million Rembrandt Fake?

A £7 million masterpiece by Rembrandt could be a fake, an art expert has claimed. Self Portrait As A Young Man, dating from 1629, has hung in Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery for the past 50 years. But renowned Rembrandt art expert professor Ernst van de Wetering has claimed the artwork was probably painted by a pupil in his workshop and not by the Dutch master at all. He described the painting as "primitive" and said it shows "a fundamentally different pictorial approach from that of Rembrandt". The professor, Rembrandt Research Programme chairman, has made the claims in his latest book, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings Volume IV. Irish Art