Vincent van Gogh was one of the greatest self-portraitists of the 19th century and his most notable work is a Self-Portrait With the Bandaged Ear created during his emotional and physical decline. Many 19th-century painters such as Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were also very much interested in the genre of self-portraiture and have depicted their own image either individually or in groups. The prolific Dutch genius Rembrandt van Rijn has executed over 40 self-portraits over the course of his artistic career and he was obsessed with aging image of himself. During the Renaissance, painters such as Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli, Titian or Michelangelo Buonarroti avoided formal self-portraits and inserted their own images into different setting in their paintings. Albrecht Durer was also a prolific self-portraitist and he has created more than twelve self-portraits in various techniques. Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man in a Turban is regarded as the earliest known panel self-portrait. Some have often been creating repetitive self-portraits as they aged to capture the ever-changing self.
Using mirrors as technical means, many painters, sculptors and printmakers have been reproducing their own image in various different and innovative ways for a variety of motives. This long-established form of portraiture dates back to antiquity, but it was not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that painters began depicting themselves as the main subject more frequently. Famous self-portraits created by most prominent figures throughout the history of art are a testament of this genre’s versatility. From novice to master, nearly all artists have attempted some form of a self-portrait at some point in their careers.
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