Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas Adriaen van der Werff working

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

As Wouwermans developed

Copy of a composition by Vrancx

It was acquired in 1719 by the French Regent

This miniature

Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas Adriaen van der Werff workingThis 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.