LUTTICHUIJS, Simon
(b. 1610, London, d. 1661, Amsterdam)

Still Life with a Skull

1635-40
Oil on canvas
National Museum, Gdañsk

Three very similar paintings attributed to the British-Dutch painter Simon Luttichuijs show a number of etchings and paintings of old people by or after Rembrandt and especially Jan Lievens. Two facing paintings resemble the old man and woman called Rembrandt's father and mother. However, the iconography of Luttichuijs's paintings, with their emphasis on mortality, the images seem merely to refer old age as such, not to specific individuals.