Anna Wijmer was the mother of Jan Six, the painting has always been in the possession of the Six family. For a while it was considered to be painted by someone from Rembrandt's workshop, but it is now accepted as a Rembrandt, with assistance from a workshop member.
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 728
Bredius 358
Bauch 499
Gerson 235
Bredius/Gerson 358
Tümpel A112 (workshop?)
Corpus III C 113 (workshop)
Corpus VI 180
Manuth 216
Literature
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, figs. 25, 101
Other works by Rembrandt
A scholar, seated at a table with books
1634
1634
The Night Watch
1642
1642
Self Portrait as Zeuxis Laughing
c. 1662-64
c. 1662-64
Study of an Old Man with a Beard
1659
1659
Self Portrait
c. 1659
c. 1659