The life and art of Sarah Belchetz-Swenson
Painter, portraitist, and printmaker, 1938-2021
![Self-portrait in the style of Rembrandt](https://i0.wp.com/s896173175.websitehome.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sprvr.jpg?resize=600%2C601)
Sarah painted this deliberately unfinished self-portrait for a workshop on Rembrandt’s materials and techniques. Using authentic pigments, she shows how Rembrandt used a limited range of colors to build up complex layers of light, shade, and form on a stretched canvas. Sarah and her colleague, the conservator Phoebe Dent Weil, studied and taught Rembrandt’s technique and published a paper on his burnt oil technique.