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LIVERPOOL, England, Oct 31, 2005 (UPI via COMTEX) -- An expert claims a 1629 self-portrait of Rembrandt hanging in a Liverpool art gallery was probably painted by one of the painter's students.

Rembrandt expert Professor Ernst van de Wetering, of the Rembrandt Research Project in Amsterdam, said "Self Portrait As A Young Man" is too primitive to have been painted by the Dutch master, the BBC reported Monday.

A spokesman for the Walker Art Gallery said many others have made a similar claim, but discoloration due to age makes it nearly impossible to make such a determination.

Van de Wetering said the painting displays "a fundamentally different pictorial approach from that of Rembrandt."

He said the true artist may have been Rembrandt's pupil Isack Jouderville.

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