 |
| Antonio Verrio Self Portrait ca. 1700 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
 |
| Jonathan Richardson Senior Self Portrait 1729 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
 |
| Allan Ramsay Self Portrait ca. 1737-39 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
 |
| Johan Zoffany Self Portrait as David with the Head of Goliath 1756 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
 |
| Richard Wilson Self Portrait ca. 1760 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
 |
| John Hamilton Mortimer Self Portrait ca. 1765 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
 |
| Joseph Wright of Derby Self Portrait ca. 1765-69 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
from The Rambler
"I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distance by fortune, or by temper, must unavoidably pass in the same manner; and though, when the claims of nature are satisfied, caprice, and vanity, and accident, begin to produce discriminations and peculiarities, yet the eye is not very heedful or quick, which cannot discover the same causes still terminating their influence in the same effects, though sometimes accelerated, sometimes retarded, or perplexed by multiplied combinations. We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure."
– Samuel Johnson (1750)
 |
| Charles Catton Self Portrait 1769 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
 |
| Richard Cosway Self Portrait in Masquerade Dress 1770 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
 |
| Thomas Gainsborough Self Portrait ca. 1774 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
 |
| Prince Hoare Self Portrait ca. 1775-80 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
 |
| Joshua Reynolds Self Portrait ca. 1780 oil on panel Royal Academy of Arts, London |
 |
| Daniel Stringer Self Portrait ca. 1780 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
 |
| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Self Portrait 1781 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
 |
| Richard Westall Self Portrait before 1793 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |