Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas Copy of a composition by

Copy of a composition by Vrancx

Adriaen van der Werff working on it for sixteen weeks and his brother and assistant Pieter van der Werff for ten weeks

The inscribed date may refer to the date of his death and not neccessarily the picture

This miniature

Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas Copy of a composition byThis 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.