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Rembrandt painted a number of self-portraits, beginning in his early 20s and continuing until he died in 1669. But this painting, titled The Cardplayers and identified by Arthur Wheelock, an art historian at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is by Jan Lievens, who worked in a style similar to Rembrandt's and collaborated with him. Rembrandt and Lievens also studied together in Amsterdam and shared a studio. The Cardplayers is believed to have been completed in 1623-24, when Rembrandt was a teenager, and Wheelock claims that he was the model for the painting's central figure. Owned by a private collector, the work is on display in a Lievens exhibition at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam through August 9. 

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