Thursday, May 21, 2020

Painted Self Portraits (Mainly British) - V

Richard Young
Self Portrait
1960
oil on board
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside

Alexander Hamilton
Self Portrait
1963
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Euan Uglow
Self Portrait
ca. 1964
oil on board
Ruth Borchard Collection, London

John Bellany
Self Portrait
1966
oil on board
Edinburgh College of Art

Peter Coker
Self Portrait
1966
oil on board
Ruth Borchard Collection, London

Diane Ibbotson
Self Portrait in Best Dress
1970
oil on canvas
University of Warwick, Coventry

Christopher Baker
Self Portrait
1975
oil on board
University of Warwick, Coventry

Brian Ballard
Self Portrait
1978
oil on board
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Mary Mabbutt
Study for Self Portrait with Poussin
1980
oil on board
Southbank Centre, London

Elizabeth Roberts
Self Portrait
1986
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Werner Büttner
Self Portrait with Nun Dolls
1986
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

A Divine Image

Cruelty has a human heart
And jealousy a human face,
Terror the human form divine,
And secrecy the human dress.

The human dress is forgèd iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.

– William Blake (1794)

Jack Knox
Self Portrait
ca. 1986
oil on canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Rodrigo Moynihan
Self Portrait with Set Square
1986
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Grahame Wheatley
Self Portrait
1989
oil on canvas
Gedling Borough Council, Nottingham

Isobel Peachey
Isobel
2014
oil on board
Ruth Borchard Collection, London