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3 unusual facts about The Polish Rider


The Polish Rider

A “soldier of Christ”, an idealistic representation of mounted soldiers defending Eastern Europe against the Turks, or simply a foreign soldier have been suggested.

In 1993 the artist Russell Connor painted a portrait in the style of Rembrandt showing the Master, palette in hand, standing in front of the incomplete Polish Rider. Connor attributed the painting to Rembrandt's pupil Carel Fabritius and indicated the canvas was found in a basement in Pinsk.

The New Yorker published Connor's painting and the attribution to Fabritius in their anniversary issue, February 22, 1993, p 147.



see also

Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński

Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński may be the subject of a much debated work, Rembrandt's The Polish Rider.