Self-Portrait (Reynolds)

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Self-Portrait
Joshua Reynolds - Self-portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA - Google Art Project.jpg
Artist Joshua Reynolds
Year1780
Medium Oil on panel, portrait painting
Dimensions127 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]

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