A Scholar
by REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn, Oil on canvas, 105 x 92 cm
Catalogue number: Bredius 146.
Rembrandt began to work as a professional portraitist about 1631. His earliest existing commissioned portraits (Portrait of a Scholar, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portrait of the Amsterdam Merchant Nicholaas Ruts, Frick Collection, New York) are both of that year.