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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880 – 1938) • Self-Portrait as a Soldier • 1915 • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.

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Ellen Emmet Rand (American, 1875 - 1941) • Self-Portrait • 1927

Ellen Emmet Rand was a painter and illustrator. She specialized in portraits, painting over 500 works during her career including portraits of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and her cousins Henry James and William James. Rand studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City and produced illustrations for Vogue Magazine and Harper's Weekly before traveling to England and then France to study with sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies. The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut owns the largest collection of her painted works and the University of Connecticut, as well as the Archives of American Art within the Smithsonian Institution both have collections of her papers, photographs, and drawings.

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Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, 1532–1625) • Self-Portrait • 1556 • Lancut Museum, Poland

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Albert Edelfelt (Finnish, 1854 - 1905) • Self-Portrait in 17th Century Costume • 1889

Why did the 19th century artist Albert Edelfelt choose to paint his self-portrait wearing 17th century attire? Having read a bit about him, I've concluded that it was a type of artistic rebellion against having to paint women in order to make a proper living. He both loved and hated his female subjects and much preferred the valiant, heroic qualities of brave men; qualities he felt he lacked.

Here is a portrait of model Virginie, with whom Edelfelt was rumored to have had an affair.

" The worst thing is that I am so fed up with these so-called Parisian subjects, these little women (petites femmes), that I can no longer bear to see without thinking of all the wretched painting, superficial and cute, that one has to do with them. The models look all the same to me; I can achieve neither veracity or character when I paint them; their poses, always the same, annoy me, and that false prettyish elegance drives me insane. " – Albert Edelfelt

Sources:

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InsideArt: Artists Painting Themselves Painting Revisited

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Charles Picqué (Belgian, 1799-1869) • Self-Portrait • 1833 • Museum of Fine Art, Ghent, Belgium

Charles Picqué was a Belgian painter, lithographer and engraver known for his neo-classical and romantic works. He was distinguished in several fields: portraiture, landscape, still-life, sacred art and history painting. – Wikipedia

As I was looking into this artist I came upon this painting by him and was struck by the resemblance of the sitter to the artist's self-portrait. The tilt of the head, the facial features, as well as the right hand – the artist holding a brush, the woman her long hair.

Woman at her toilet • 1827

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Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877) • Self-Portrait with a Black Dog • 1842

Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.

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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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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!