Monday, June 17, 2024

Artists Fashioning Likenesses of Other Artists

Aegidius Sadeler after Bartholomeus Spranger
Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Elder
1606
engraving
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Portrait of Giambattista Tiepolo
ca. 1771-74
etching
Yale University Art Gallery

Archibald Skirving
Portrait of Gavin Hamilton
ca. 1788
pastel
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

George Richmond
Portrait of Samuel Palmer
ca. 1830
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Heinrich Maria von Hess
Portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen
1832
oil on panel
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Joseph Ernest von Bandel
Portrait Bust of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
1833
plaster
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

John Steell
Portrait Bust of David Scott
ca. 1840
marble
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Patric Park
Portrait Bust of David Octavius Hill
ca. 1850
marble
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Aimé-Jules Dalou
Head of Alphonse Legros
ca. 1876
bronze
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Carolus-Duran
1879
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Charlotte Wankel
Four Artists
1936
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Lee Miller
Paul Delvaux, Brussels
1944
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Lee Miller
Giorgio Morandi, Venice
1948
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Lee Miller
Oskar Kokoschka, London
1950
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Richard Hamilton
Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon
1970-71
screenprint and collotype
(derived from Polaroid of Hamilton taken by Bacon)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Robert Mapplethorpe
Portrait of Alice Neel
1984
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

from Melancholy of the Autumn Garden

There's no such thing as the completely wasted life,
Just lives of varying degrees of opacity and transparency,
Through which the limits of the visible appear.

– John Koethe (2016)