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M. C. Escher, Self-portrait, 1929, Escher Museum, Den Haag.

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Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853–1919) • Self-Portrait • 1906

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Michael Taylor (British/English, b. 1952) • Self-Portrait with Grave Goods

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Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) • Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (self-portrait) • 1493 • Oil on parchment pasted on canvas • Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Margaret Preston (Australian, 1875 - 1963) • Self-portrait • 1930 • Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Franz Marc (German, 1880 - 1916) • Self-Portrait in Breton Costume • 1904 • Institut Mathildenhöhearchive, Darmstadt, Germany

Painted in impressionism style.

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Percy Shakespeare (British/English, 1906 - 1943) • Self Portrait with Trilby / Mephistopheles • 1933 • Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, Dudley, England

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Idda Botti Scifoni (Italian, 1812 - 1844) • Self-Portrait • 1839 • Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy

Ida Scifoni was a 19th century Florentine painter, sculptor, and designer. She was the art teacher for and friend of, Mathilde Bonneparte, Napoleon's niece.

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Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901 - 1966) • Self-Portrait • 1921 • Musée Picasso, Paris

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Cecilia Beaux (American/French, 1855 - 1942) • Self-portrait • 1894 • National Academy of Design, New York, U.S.A.

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Boris Grigoriev (Russian, 1886–1939) • Self-Portrait • Before 1939

Boris Grigoriev painted several self-portraits - online, I was able to find about eight. I posted another evocative Grigoriev self-portrait here.

In this selfie, it looks as if he's speaking. If that's the case, I wonder what his motivation was to paint himself in this way?

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William Rothenstein (British/English, 1872-1945) • Self-Portrait • c. 1925-30

I was struck by this self-portrait. William Rothenstein's gaze is direct and his expression is somewhat inscrutable. Clearly it's not a happy expression. Is it one of sorrow and resolve?

How do you read it?

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Anita Rée

Anita Rée (German, 1885-1933) • Self-Portrait • 1930. • Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Anita Clara Rée was a German avant-garde painter during the Weimar Republic.

Born into an old Jewish family of Hamburg merchants who traded in goods from India, she was the daughter of Israel Rée and Clara, née Hahn. Anita and her sister Emilie were however baptized and raised as Lutherans, in accordance with the social norms of assimilated upper middle class and upper class Jewish families in Germany at the time.

From 1905, she studied with the Hamburg painter Arthur Siebelist. In 1906, she met Max Liebermann, who recognized her talent and encouraged her to continue her artistic career. Around 1910 she, Franz Nölken and others formed a studio community, but it broke up due to her unrequited love for Nölken. During the winter of 1912–1913, she studied with Fernand Léger in Paris.

In 1913, she participated in a major showing at the Galerie Commeter in Hamburg. From around 1914, Anita Rée gained recognition as a portrait painter. In 1919, she joined the "Hamburg Secession", modeled on similar groups in Berlin and Munich. In 1921, she toured the Tyrol. From 1922 to 1925, her primary residence was in Positano.

She returned to Hamburg in 1926 and helped found GEDOK [de], an association of women artists. She also created several murals in public buildings, but most were later destroyed by the Nazi government.

In 1930, she received a commission to create a triptych for the altar at the new Ansgarkirche in Langenhorn. The church fathers were not happy with her designs, however, and the commission was withdrawn in 1932 over "religious concerns". Meanwhile, the Nazis had denounced her as a Jew and the Hamburg Art Association called her an "alien". Shortly after, she moved to Sylt.

She committed suicide in 1933, partly as a result of having been subjected to such hostility and continuing harassment by antisemitic forces, partly due to disappointments on the personal level. In a note to her sister, she decried the insanity of the world. In 1937, the Nazis designated Rée's work as "Degenerate art" and began purging it from museum collections. Wilhelm Werner, a groundskeeper at the Kunsthalle Hamburg preserved many of Rée's paintings by hiding them in his apartment.

Biography courtesy of Artvee

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Lotte Laserstein (German/Swedish, 1898 - 1993) • Self-Portrait with a Cat • 1928

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Maurice Denis (French, 1970 - 1943) • Autoportrait devant le Prieuré (Self-Portrait in Front of the Priory) • 1922 • Musée départemental Maurice Denis "The Priory", Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France

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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.