What is Self-portrait?
A '''self-portrait''' is a picture of the artist drawing it. The earliest example of a self-portrait made was [[Jan van Eyck]] in 1433.<ref>Campbell, Lorne; National Gallery Catalogues (new series): ''The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings'', pp 212-17, 1998, {{ISBN|0300-07701-7}}</ref> The most famous self portrait painter was [[Vincent van Gogh]]. He painted a picture of himself 37 times from 1886 to 1889. == Selection == <gallery> File:Selbstporträt,_by_Albrecht_Dürer,_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg|[[Albrecht Dürer]],Self-portrait with landscape, 1498 File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_presumed_self-portrait_-_WGA12798.jpg|[[Leonardo da Vinci]], Self-portrait as an old man,around 1512 File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_The_Artist_and_His_First_Wife,_Isabella_Brant,_in_the_Honeysuckle_Bower.jpg|[[Peter Paul Rubens]], Self-portrait with his wife Isabella, about 1609 File:Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_128.jpg|[[Rembrandt van Rijn]], Self-portrait, 1630 File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 132.jpg|[[Rembrandt van Rijn]], Self-portrait, about 1655 File:Anton Graff 1765.jpg|[[Anton Graff]], Self-portrait, 1765 File:Joseph Ducreux (French - Self-Portrait, Yawning - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Joseph Ducreux]], Self-portrait (yawning), 1783 File:Lebrun, Self-portrait.jpg|[[Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun]], Self-portrait, 1790 File:Repin selfportrait 1878.jpg| [[Ilya Repin]], Self-portrait, 1878 File:VanGogh 1887 Selbstbildnis.jpg|[[Vincent van Gogh]], Self-portrait, 1886–1887 File:Paul_Gauguin_111.jpg|[[Paul Gauguin]], Self-portrait, 1893 File:Lovis Corinth 010.jpg|[[Lovis Corinth]], Self-portrait with skeleton, 1896 File:Renoir Self-Portrait 1910.jpg|[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], Self-portrait, 1910 </gallery> ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Art]]