Margriet de Moor's latest novel is titled 'de schilder en het meisje' (the painter and the girl) referring to Rembrandt and  Elsje Christiaens, a Danish girl executed in Amsterdam of who he made two small drawings.  Margriet de Moor doesn't mention Rembrandt by name in the novel, so I kept the reference low key as well.  I used  Rembrandtesk colours for this watercolour and pencil portrait and put Margriet de Moor in a pose similar to one that Rembrandt used in a drawing of his wife Saskia Uylenburg.