After Rembrandt

I just came across some oil-painting studies I have done over the last few years. Here is a study I did after a Rembrandt self-portrait (see above). I like the loose approach I took with it. I think Rembrandt was just 23 when he painted the original. Beautiful work, but much more tight and polished than his later work, which was maybe riskier and more 'painterly'. 

Here (below) is the original painting, by Rembrandt...

And here is a later Rembrandt self portrait (below)...