Hendrik Kerstens - Contemporary 17th Century Portraits

I first came across Kerstens' work at the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008 and ever since have followed his work avidly. The portraits of his daughter Paula have been a huge inspiration to my Musician portraits as the lighting I found particularly beautiful and loved his modern twist to portraits that could be otherwise mistaken for 17th Century paintings like that of Vermeer and Rembrandt due to his characteristically 'dutch' light used, which I adapted for my own portraits.

I absolutely adore his humorous portraiture and thought I would share this new talent with you all and let you make up your own mind about the too!