Painting considered workshop copy is in fact by Rembrandt, expert says

<p>Exclusive: UK owner’s version of Old Man with a Gold Chain reunited in Chicago with undisputed work by Dutch master</p><p>A portrait in a UK collection that has long been dismissed as a workshop copy of an almost identical painting by Rembrandt was in fact also painted by the 17th-century Dutch master, according to a leading scholar.</p><p>Each of the paintings, titled Old Man with a Gold Chain and dated to the early 1630s, is a near-lifesize depiction of an older man wearing a gold chain and a plumed hat.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/30/rembrandt-old-man-with-a-gold-chain-painting-copy-art-institute-chicago">Continue reading...</a>