Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Many Makers

Lucas van Leyden
Old Man Drawing
ca. 1512
drawing
British Museum


Antonis Mor
Self Portrait
1558
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Lorenzo Tinti
Portrait of artist Elisabetta Sirani
ca. 1660
engraving
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jan de Bisschop
Frans Floris inking his Pen
ca. 1669
drawing
British Museum

Sébastien Bourdon
Artist Drawing
before 1671
drawing
British Museum

Niccolò Cassana
Self Portrait
1683
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Hyacinthe Rigaud
Portrait of sculptor Martin Desjardins
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Eglon van der Neer
Self Portrait
1696
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Venceslao Verlin
Self Portrait
1771
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Catherine Lusurier
Portrait of Germain-Jean Drouais at age 15
ca. 1778
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Jacob More
Self Portrait
1783
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
Self Portrait
1790
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

James Bretherton after Thomas Orde
George Stubbs painting a Horse
ca. 1795
etching and drypoint
British Museum

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Self Portrait
ca. 1825
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Frank Earle Schoonover
Raffles
1910
drawing (poster design)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

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

Alexander Moffat
Portrait of painter Gwen Hardie
1987
oil on canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Not even in death can I,
Theris, my shipwrecked body
Delivered on the traveling wave,
Escape these unresting, unwelcoming
Shores: for here, under
The tide-lashed reefs which break
Into spray the calamitous ocean,
Have strangers fashioned my grave;
And therefore sadly, eternally,
I listen, even in death,
To the sea's perilous thunder.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Clive Sansom