# Gerard de Lairesse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 113 x 88 cm ## Commentary <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note03.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue number:</a> Bredius 321. The portrait of the young painter Gerard de Lairesse is a characteristic late work by Rembrandt. Apart from his self-portrait in the Uffizi, this is the only known formal portrait of De Lairesse. The artist's features reportedly shocked colleagues when they first encountered him in Amsterdam, according to Houbraken, who mentions his misshapen nose and relates that he was born with his deformities. It is assumed that he suffered from congenital syphilis which could have caused his deformities. ## Related artworks - [A black drummer and commander mounted on mules; riding in profile]() - [A child being taught to walk]() - [A cottage beneath trees]() - [A girl sleeping]() - [A Man Laughing]() - [A man making water]() - [A Peddler Selling Spectacles \(The Allegory of Sight\)]() - [A Polish Nobleman]() - [A Scholar]() - [A two-humped camel]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the back]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the front]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()