“Portrait after Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait In a Cap and Fur-Trimmed Cloak (1634)” (1899)
Pyrographic portrait on wood
Norman Kingsley (1829-1913) was a pioneering dentist, orthodontist (having published the first modern orthodontics paper in 1858), early cleft palate surgeon, and was also an accomplished portrait artist. After patenting a proprietary blowtorch in 1866, he used this to recreate master works by artists including Rembrandt using pyrography (the method of burning patterns into a media with a heat source) in a gas-flame charring technique.
