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Article: Rembrandts reassessed: since 1992 only one of the 12 paintings in the Wallace Collection once attributed to Rembrandt has been accepted as a wholly autograph work. Since then debate has raged about the attributions of these--and many other--paintings by the artist. Christopher Brown gives his verdict on five of the Wallace's disputed Rembrandts, the subject of an exhibition that he has curated there.
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At the end of the 19th century, when the Wallace Collection was bequeathed to the British nation by Lady Wallace, it was believed to include 12 paintings by Rembrandt. Almost 100 years later, in 1992, an exhibition at the museum entitled 'Rembrandt 1892' looked critically at those paintings and concluded that only one, the portrait of Titus, was entirely by Rembrandt himself. (1) The organiser of the exhibition, John Ingamells, the Director of the Wallace Collection at the time, wrote in the accompanying catalogue: 'here are twelve paintings of which one is by Rembrandt and seven are probably from his workshop, produced under his eye. Two are somewhat later pastiches, and ...
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