Self Portraits (Heres looking at me)

The self portrait has been a way fro artists through history to capture a true view of how they see themselves and how that view is contextualized into the period. A new work by Laura Cumming explores the use of self portrait to explain the painters role and their world view. The work was reviewed in the Financial Times on July 17th on page 14 and I highly recommend the book.

Piccolo Art has an excellent self portrait of very rare and unusual miniature, witch is attributed to Friedrich Ludwig Vieth von Goldenau (German), c. 1800. The water color on ivory portrait depicts a miniature painter, and is very possibly a self-portrait of von Goldenau. The artist, with brown hair and brown eyes, is wearing a bright yellow waist-coat, white chemise, and a loosely tied blue craval. He is holding a paint brush, and there is a miniature resting on a table to his left