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| Mary Beale Self Portrait as a Shepherdess ca. 1680 oil on canvas West Suffolk Council, Bury St Edmunds |
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| Arthur Devis Self Portrait 1742 oil on canvas Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire |
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| Joseph Wright of Derby Self Portrait in Van Dyck Costume ca. 1753-54 oil on canvas Derby Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Edward Penny Self Portrait 1759 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Johan Zoffany Self Portrait 1761 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Nathaniel Hone the Elder Self Portrait 1768 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| James Barry Self Portrait ca. 1777 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
from Photo of Melville; Back Room, Old Bookstore
I passed him by at first. From the photograph
Peered sepia eyes, blindered, unappeased
From a lair of brows and beard: one not amazed
At anything, as if to have looked enough
Then turned aside worked best for him – as if
Night vision was the discipline that eased
The weight of what he saw . . .
* * *
That face could be a focus for this back room,
For pack-rat papers strewn as if in rage,
Fond notes unread: each wary eye a phial
Unstopped to let huge Melville out . . .
– Stephen Sandy (1998)
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| attributed to Richard Cosway Self Portrait ca. 1785 oil on canvas Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon |
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| Thomas Lawrence Self Portrait 1787 oil on canvas Victoria Art Gallery, Bath |
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| William Beechey Self Portrait ca. 1793 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Hazlitt Self Portrait ca. 1795 oil on canvas Maidstone Museum, Kent |
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| David Wilkie Self Portrait ca. 1804-1805 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| William Hilton Self Portrait ca. 1810 oil on canvas Usher Gallery, Lincoln |
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| Benjamin Robert Haydon Self Portrait as the Spirit of the Vine ca. 1812 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon |
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| William Armfield Hobday Self Portrait 1813-14 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |