Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Painted Self Portraits (Mainly British) - III

Archibald McGlashan
Self Portrait
ca. 1910-20
oil on panel
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Howard Somerville
Self Portrait with Model
ca. 1912
oil on canvas
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire

George Clausen
Self Portrait
1918
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Cedric Morris
Self Portrait
1919
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff (Wales)

Mark Gertler
Self Portrait
1920
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Charles Tunnicliffe
Self Portrait
ca. 1920
oil on canvas
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Stanley Spencer
Self Portrait
1923
oil on canvas
Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire

Edward Wolfe
Self Portrait
ca. 1925-30
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

William Oliphant Hutchison
Self Portrait
1926
oil on canvas
Kircaldy Galleries, Fife, Scotland

John Lavery
Self Portrait
1928
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

John Luke
Self Portrait
1928
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Ulster Museum, Belfast

William Rothenstein
Self Portrait
1930
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Cedric Morris
Self Portrait
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

David Bomberg
Self Portrait
1932
oil on board
Ulster Museum, Belfast

William Oliphant Hutchison
The Kitchen Bathroom
1932
oil on canvas
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Hutchison's 1932 self portrait, The Kitchen Bathroom, wittily deploys a compositional device traditionally associated with Baroque representations of church architecture (as below).  The steeply receding architectural background in both cases is achieved through "plunging perspective" – often intended in the 16th and 17th centuries to force the wandering eye of the viewer toward the Host on the distant altar.  Hutchison exploits this same plunging perspective to guide his viewer's eye toward the idealized nude, discreetly displayed in a deliberately unidealized setting.   

attributed to Giovan Paolo Lomazzo
Girl mounting Steps to Altar and opening Reliquary
before 1600
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain