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Message:: [QUOTE="James Bianco, post: 316655, member: 6413"]a few years ago I bought this 17th Century Dutch painting of a clergyman from Leiden named Peter Van der Hagen. Holland has a very cool website which catalogs as much of it's historical works of art and provides a provenance when possible along with a brief bio of the subject if known.  I am adding a couple of images, there is a lot of overpainting and it needs to be cleaned badly. It was originally attributed to Nicolaes Maes in the 18th or 19th Century (a pupil of Rembrandt) but has since been overpainted extensively and lost it's attribution. When I shine a lamp from behind I see whole areas of darker paint added later. The subject (Peter Van der Hagen)'s maternal grandfather Nicolaes Ruts was painted by Rembrandt himself and is in The Frick Collection. I love it so much! Here is the Holland catalog entry and I'm adding images. <a href="https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/record?query=van+der+hagen&start=4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/record?query=van+der+hagen&start=4" rel="nofollow">https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/record?query=van+der+hagen&start=4</a>[/QUOTE]