Another chance to see the series of five programmes, first shown in 1976, about the life and work of Rembrandt van Rijn. The Self Portraits. Rembrandt was the first artist to make the self-portrait a major means of artistic expression. The late distinguished art expert Lord Clark examines the way
Rembrandt painted himself, from the image of vigorous youth to that of solitary old age, and reveals his life-long admiration for an artist he considered "one of the greatest painters who has ever lived". Producer Colin Clark (RptJ