Ian Hamilton Finlay Works from the Artist Rooms collection reveal the singular vision of the Scottish poet and conceptual artist. • Tate Modern, London, until 8 December
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The nearly man of Dutch golden age art looks back at us warily. Jan Lievens was a youthful friend and rival of Rembrandt when they both worked in Leiden, possibly sharing a studio. Like Rembrandt, he was mercurial and gifted and as this painting suggests, deeply ambitious. But while Rembrandt would make self-portraiture into the most revelatory and tragic of arts, this is a more guarded, formal performance. Lievens doesn’t transfigure himself into a Lear-like everyman as his youthful peer would. But he gives a very realistic, undramatic picture of his own individuality, tinged with sadness. • National Gallery , London
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