Self-Portrait | |
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Artist | Joshua Reynolds |
Year | 1780 |
Medium | Oil on panel, portrait painting |
Dimensions | 127 cm× 101.6 cm(50 in× 40.0 in) |
Location | Royal Academy, London |
Self-portrait is a 1780 oil on panel self portrait by the British artist Sir Joshua Reynolds. [1] Reynolds was a leading portraitist and had been President of the Royal Academy since its foundation in 1768. He produced a number of self-portraits during his long career, possibly inspired by the Old Master Rembrandt whose stance he imitates in the portrait. [2] Reynolds is shown wearing the robes of the Doctorate of Civil Law which had been bestowed on him by Oxford University in 1773. Besides him is a bust of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra. [3]
The painting was produced to hang in the Academy's new assembly room at Somerset House. It was hung alongside Reynold's Portrait of Sir William Chambers which functioned as a companion piece Chambers was an influential member of the Academy and drawn up the new design for the new headquarters . [4]