Landscape in imitation of Jacob Ruisdael Religious Art The inscription shows the remains

The inscription shows the remains of a false Cuyp signature (possibly added by Bourgeois) and the painting was exhibited in the early 19th-century as by Cuyp

More than three hundred and fifty years after she was painted - Rembrandt's ability to conjure up the sense of a living being out of paint can still astound

called Canaletto

Cleaning also permitted a clearer appreciation of Rembrandt's confident sweeps of the brush and thickly applied 'impasto' paint (see

Richard Perkins (1585

Landscape in imitation of Jacob Ruisdael Religious Art The inscription shows the remainsAttributed in the 1813 inventory to Ruisdael, but according to Passavant 'entirely painted by Mr. Woodbum, who made this very copy for his own pleasure, and which after passing through several hands, has at length here attained to the honour of originality'.