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Eleanor Cunningham Bannister (American, 1858-1939) • Admiring Her Own Portrait/A Self Portrait • Late 19th – early 20th century

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Happy All Hollows Eve! 🕸🕷🍂

David Bailly (Dutch, 1584–1657) • Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols • c. 1651 • Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands

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John Randall Bratby (1928-1992) • Self Portrait (triptych) • 1961 • Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, Worthing, England, UK

John Bratby was an English painter who founded the kitchen sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s. He made portraits of his family and celebrities. His works were seen in television and film. Bratby was also a writer. – WikiArt

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669) • The Prodigal Son in the Brothel or The Prodigal Son in the Tavern • c. 1635 • Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden, Germany

Rembrandt himself and his wife Saskia painted as the parable to the prodigal son. It was a common theme in paintings which afforded an opportunity for a moral and religious lesson.

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Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962) • Self-Portrait with Yellow Lilies • 1907-1908

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Alfred Reginald Thomson (British/English, 1894-1979) • Self-Portrait • Unknown date

Perhaps I'm daft but I cannot figure out what's going on with kid in the window. I see he's holding a mirror and the reflection appears on the canvas. But why? Any guesses?

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Fritzi Schermer Brod (Austro-Hungarian /American, 1900 – 1952) • Self-portrait in a Peasant Blouse • 1936

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Paul Cadmus (American, 1909 - 1999) • Self-Portrait, Mallorca • 1932

Paul Cadmus is best known for his erotic depictions of nude male figures, charged with satire, social criticism, and a strongly idealized sexuality. Cadmus first gained recognition for his 1934 painting The Fleet's In, where the controversy of a group of sailors he pictured carousing among prostitutes and homosexuals inspired a public outcry. His work is informed by themes of Surrealism, compositions of the Renaissance, the Neoclassical works of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and the sharp, figurative verisimilitude of Magical Realism; however, Cadmus's greatest influence was from fellow painter Jared French, with whom he studied and traveled extensively. French instilled within Cadmus the traditions of the Old Masters (such as an egg tempera technique that became an integral part of his process) and, furthermore, a drive to transcend these methods and define his own artistic legacy. – AI summary

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Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918) • Lovers – Self-Portrait with Wally • c. 1914 – 1915 • Gouache and pencil on paper

" I am so rich that I must give myself away. " - Egon Schiele

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Jaime Wyeth (American, b. 1946) • Pumpkin Head (Self-Portrait) • 1972

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Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (French, 1648 – 1711) • Self-Portrait • Third quarter of the 17th century • Musée du Louvre, Paris

In addition to being a painter, Chéron was also acclaimed in her lifetime as a gifted poet, musician, artist, and academician – a Renaissance woman extraordinaire!

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Léon Frédéric (Belgian, 1856–1940) • Intérieur d’atelier (Art Studio Interior) • 1882

This enigmatic work is thought to be a self portrait depicting a fantasy scene of Frédéric in his studio. He is obviously naked, on his lap is a skeleton draped with a shear, star spangled cloth and holding a branch (I don't recognize the plant or tree). Draped around the studio are the artist's clothing, hat, and shoes. An allegory, perhaps.

Interestingly, Frédéric painted the same star cloth in the painting Allegory of Night (1891), below.

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Lajos Tihanyi (Hungarian, active in Paris, 1885-1938) • Self-Portrait • 1920

Lajos Tihanyi painted many self-portraits. Here is a selection:

Lajos Tihanyi was a Hungarian painter and lithographer who achieved international renown working outside his country, primarily in Paris, France. After emigrating in 1919, he never returned to Hungary, even on a visit.

Born in Budapest, as a young man, Tihanyi was part of the "Neoimpressionists" or "Neos", and later the influential avant-garde group of painters called The Eight (A Nyolcak), founded in 1909 in Hungary. They were experimenting with styles of Post-Impressionism and rejected the naturalism of the Nagybánya artists' colony. Their work is considered highly influential in establishing modernism in Hungary to 1918, when the First World War and revolution overtook the country.

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John Byrne (British/Scottish, 1940 - 2023) • Self-portrait in a Flowered Jacket • 1971 - 1973 © Estate of John Byrne. All rights reserved. DACS, London 2023

John Byrne was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and the TV dramas Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin' Heart. Byrne was also a painter, printmaker and scenic designer. He had a relationship and children with British actress Tilda Swinton.

– Wikipedia bio

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Jacek Malczewski (Polish, 1854–1929) • Self-Portrait in a White Attire • 1914

Self-portrait of artist Jacek Malczewski wearing a white traditional 19th century artist's smock (or smock-frock), a white neck scarf (a common garment for European men in the 18th and 19th century) and a wide white beret. – the artwork description in the Wikipedia entry

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Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Hadamar (German, 1660-1680) • Self-Portrait • Between 1638 and 1650 • Prague Castle Picture Gallery, Czechoslovakia

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Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) • Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky • 1937 • Oil on Masonite • National Museum of Women in the Arts

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