Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits (Elizabeth Jennings)

                                  Self-Portrait 1669 Oil on canvas, 86 x 71 cm National Gallery, London

A key reading for this poem is why a painter paints and consequently, what there is behind a painting? what it represents?

In the "Rembrandt's Late Self - Portraits" is the essence of an entire life drawn on a white and immaculate canvas, this is what I felt after reading the first stanza.
In the second stanza tha painter has to deal with his age, but despite his age he loves paint, being an act of love.

The third stanza tells us the entire life of Rembrandt, from his experiments to his last self-portraits it begins with "Love of the arts and others"  and ends with "And old age can divest;" the last line of the third stanza is used to introduce the last one, where this poem, leads us to think about the meaning of his paintings full of sadness joy, light, darkness, death and fear, because his paintings are the knowledge of ourselves.

This happen when we look at his paintings, it is an introspective journey.