Is It or Isn’t It? Possible Rembrandt Sells for $1.4 Million to Optimistic Bidder

Kaja Veilleux at the podium, having just sold Lot 2363, ‘After Rembrandt,’ for $1.4 million. Image courtesy of Thomaston Place. Rembrandt Van Rijn is one of the greatest artists in history. He earned his fame during the Dutch Golden Age with paintings like The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) and The Night Watch (1642). […]

It Often Pays to Clean a Painting

“Portrait of a Woman” went from being considered a masterpiece by Dutch painter Rembrandt (1606-1669), to being declared as a “knock-off” painted by an unknown assistant, to now being worth potentially 10s of millions of dollars. A cleaning and new examination with modern methods led to experts re-evaluating its origin BACK to the paintbrush of […]