Why engravings aren't always right
June 15 2015
Picture: National Portrait Gallery
In art history, sitter identifications are often made on the basis of later engraved images. But, as the above 19th Century engraving of Rembrandt shows, they aren't always right; he's definitely not Prince Rupert. It's hard to see how even in the 19th Century publishers were able to make such a mistake. Still, at least they figured out that Rembrandt was the artist.
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