Melvyn Bragg
Chooses Rembrandt's 1658 Self-Portrait for Front Row's Cultural Exchange
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| Writer and Broadcaster | Presenter of The South Bank Show and Radio 4's In Our Time. Author of The Soldier's Return Quartet. In 1998 became Lord Bragg of Wigton. |
Self-Portrait by Rembrandt (1658)
Melvyn Bragg chooses Rembrandt's 1658 self-portrait, on show at the The Frick Collection in New York. He tells Mark Lawson how he bought a postcard of the painting as a teenager and has kept it by his desk ever-since.
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