- A story almost too unlikely to be true - For nearly 100 years in the collection of the king of The Netherlands and in 1921 stolen to turn up in 1945 Rembrandt in a red beret: the vanishings and reappearances of a self-portrait follows the fortunes of a fascinating painting along two lines. First is the history of the painting as a precious collector's object, a story almost too unlikely to be true. In 1823 it was bought by the future King Willem...