Saturday, January 18, 2020

Portraits of Artists by Other Artists - (1844-1993)

Thomas Brigstocke
Study for a Portrait of E.M. Ward
ca. 1844
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

George Frederic Watts
Portrait of Julia Margaret Cameron
ca. 1850-52
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Henri Fantin-Latour after Alphonse-Charles Masson
Portrait of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1865
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Walter Sickert
Portrait of Philip Wilson Steer
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Reginald Barber
Portrait of John Cassidy
1900
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

William Orpen
A Bloomsbury Family
(Portrait of William Nicholson)
1907
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

from Breakfast

A dinner party, coffee, tea,
Sandwich, or supper, all may be
In their way pleasant. But to me
Not one of these deserves the praise
That welcomer of new-born days,
A breakfast, merits; ever giving
Cheerful notice we are living
Another day refreshed by sleep,
When its festival we keep.
Now although I would not slight
Those kindly words we use 'Good night'
Yet parting words are words of sorrow
And may not vie with sweet 'Good Morrow'
With which again our friends we greet
When in the breakfast-room we meet
At the social table round
Listening to the lively sound
Of those notes which never tire
Of urn, or kettle on the fire.

– Mary Lamb (1809)

William Nicholson
Portrait of Walter Greaves
1917
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Henry Lamb
Portrait of Stanley Spencer
1928
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Jacques-Emile Blanche
Portrait of Walter Sickert
1935
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Francis Bacon
Portrait of Lucian Freud
1951
oil on canvas
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

Olive Cook
Portrait of Edwin Smith
ca. 1955
oil on board
National Portrait Gallery, London

Derek Hill
Portrait of Duncan Grant
ca. 1975
oil on board
Charleston House, Lewes, Sussex

Ruskin Spear
Portrait of Francis Bacon
1984
oil on board
National Portrait Gallery, London

Michael Clark
Portrait of Derek Jarman
1993
oil on card
National Portrait Gallery, London