Young Man in a Yellow Robe

1630 · National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

portrait

The powerful sense of drama and illumination that characterizes Rembrandt's portraits is also a feature of his Leiden colleague Jan Lievens, with whom Rembrandt was in close contact. Both painters experimented with sources of artificial light, which created interesting reflections and shadows. In the case of this painting it is assumed that the model was the painter himself.

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About the Artist

Jan Lievens

1607 – 1674

Jan Lievens (or Lievensz.), Dutch painter of portraits and religious, allegorical and genre subjects. He was a friend and contemporary of Rembrandt and a pupil of Lastman in Amsterdam. Then shared a studio with Rembrandt in Leiden in the later 1620s: many works of this period show one influencing the other. Lievens went to England, probably in 1632 after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, but he was in Antwerp by 1635, where he was influenced by the courtly style of Van Dyck. He returned to Holland in 1639 and became a successful painter of portraits and allegories. Raising of Lazarus is a good example of his works.

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