Portrait in Burnt Sienna

The dueling portraits, “Burnt Sienna” and “Raw Sienna”, were painted as a diptych (a single image on two separate panels or canvases). The image captures what is perceived by the viewer as, a single portrait painted at two different times in the model’s life; referencing life at two very distinct passages. Originally, these two distinctive portraits by Anthony van Dyck are two different people painted at about the same time. Burnt Sienna’s ‘Lucas van Uffelen’ (c.1622) and Raw Sienna’s ‘Portrait of a Genovese gentleman, Alessandro Giustiniani-Long (c.1621), respectively.