Some Favorite Portraits

[WV.Artistry]

This was Matt's idea -- if you have a favorite portrait, etc.

Richard

[WV.Artistry]

Thomas Cooper Gotch (British, 1854-1931)
Heir To All The Ages
Private Collection

This is one of many favorites.

Gotch was founder of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, 1887 and President 1913-28.

[dcorc]

hi Richard!

yes please, good idea!

I'll put in Rembrandt, "Jan Six" for starters:

Rembrandt van Rijn
Jan Six
1654
Oil on canvas
112 x 102 cm
Six Collection, Amsterdam

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/25-May-2004/30792-jan-six.jpg


From Simon Schama, "Rembrandt's Eyes":

"The painting is life-size but a three-quarter-length, creating a startling impression of an immediate, living presence. When Rembrandt, in 1641, painted the figure of a patrician leaning nonchalantly against a classical column, the full-length format, in the van Dyck manner, dictated a necessary aristocratically calculated distance, a length of floor, between observer and subject. Jan Six, on the other hand, is in space, so close we can see the small cleft in his chin and the fastidiously exposed measure of pink skin between his mustache and upper lip. Normally, a three-quarter-length would have suggested a rectangular canvas support. But Rembrandt's painting is nearly square. And almost the entire left-hand third of the canvas is occupied by nothing except a thickly painted blackness, from which Jan Six projects himself into the light. Through a calculation of the optical effects of color as careful as in The Night Watch, moving diagonally from the dark pigeon-gray of the coat through the ocher of his chamois gloves and finally toward the dazzling, saturated scarlet of his cloak, Rembrandt manages to make Jan Six seem to move through space, toward us, out of the anonymous darkness into the cordial, warming light of recognition.

His motions, as befits the gentleman virtuoso, are not unduly brisk. His regard is steady, directed at us, the business with the hands and the glove instinctively elegant. But what is that motion painted by Rembrandt as an astonishing wet-in-wet, unresolved blur of ocher, brown, gray, and white? It has always been assumed that Six is pulling his left glove more firmly onto his hand, preparing, as it were, to assume his street persona. But Rembrandt has taken the greatest care to show the thumb of that same left hand skintight snug in the glove, even to the extent of outlining the upper edge of the thumbnail beneath the soft chamois. It is just as plausible, then, to read the motion of the bare right hand as beginning to pull the glove off, rather than putting it on. It's not, of course, that we need to change the direction of Jan Six's movement from a going-out to a coming-in, from a departure to a greeting. It's rather that Rembrandt means to catch his subject precisely at the ambiguous margin between the home and the world. Ten years ago, David Smith very observantly noticed that in the Latin chronosticon, or little epithet, which Six himself wrote of the portrait in his Pandora album, he referred to himself as "lanus." So that when Six goes on to affirm (considerately, given d'Andrade's complaint that same year) that "this is the face that I, Janus Six, wore, who since childhood have worshipped the Muses," he implies punningly two faces rather than one: the face worn for the world and the face worn for his friends, for himself. Which is why Rembrandt has done everything he possibly can to make us look at those two hands: the bare hand of personal, familial greeting (the precise indication of the knuckles and even the veins, for all the loose freedom of the brushwork, heightening this sense of intimacy) and the gloved hand of social rituals. For that matter, the joining of hands or gloves was a commonplace emblem of friendship and mutual devotion, so that Rembrandt was, in effect, once again making another allusion to the amity existing between painter and poet. The greatest compliment Rembrandt could pay his patron, though, was to deliver the paint to the canvas with the appearance of pure sprezzatura, all his fine calculations disguised as elegant spontaneity, just as Castiglione had urged.

The brushwork, then, is the personality of its subject, calling attention to itself as an astonishing act of fluent self-possession. It is the most breathtaking demonstration of what Dutch writers on painting would have called lossigheid, looseness, giving the impression (belied by Rembrandt's preparatory drawings) of paint having been laid on, wet-in-wet, at speed, very much as in the painting of Hendrickje bathing in a stream, from the same year (1654 must rank with 1629 and 1636 as one of Rembrandt's most mind-bogglingly prolific years). But even if he did paint the portrait relatively quickly, the exceptionally subtle handling of details, and the amazing variety of brushwork, even in adjacent passages, testifies to the tremendous care Rembrandt took with the conception of the painting, and above all with what art theorists of the day called the houding of the piece: the precisely interlocking relationship of colors to create credible pictorial illusions in space.

Wherever one looks in the painting, there is startling evidence of this instinctive marriage between exact calculation and liberated handling. As Hoogstraten noticed, the passages closest to us receive the freest brushwork of all - the cloak with its broad strokes of black indicating the natural fall of the material following Six's shoulder and the amazing single dabs of yellow describing the facings and buttons; the slightly more loaded bottom edge of the brush, mixed here and there with a trace of white, managing to suggest the way in which the light might catch the fabric, just as it does more sharply on the more heavily faced gold lapel. Crucial to the overall composition is that sharp right angle, repeated in the white collar, anchoring the pose amidst all the movement of the brush. The shadows beneath the collar are exactly calculated to give the linen lightness and lift so that it seems to float over the dove-gray coat, the right corner given an exquisite little curl. And where in the 1630s Rembrandt would have painted his sitter's hair with almost pedantic care, scratching in the individual bristles with the back of his brush handle, here he manages to suggest Jan Six's full reddish mane with cloudy, almost airy brushwork, dabbed in except in the locks overhanging the white collar, where he indicates the hair ends by a web of minutely hatched vertical lines.

The picture is, then, a virtual encyclopedia of painting, from the loosest handling to the dry brush, sparely loaded with yellow, dragged over the surface at the edge of Six's right cuff; from the finest detail to the most impressionist daring. Yet Rembrandt manages to bring all this diversity of technique into a totally resolved single image. So that Jan Six does indeed stand before us much as we would dearly wish to imagine ourselves, all the contradictions of our character - vanity and modesty, outward show and inward reflectiveness, energy and calm - miraculously fitted together."

Dave

[Titanium]

Titian

Man with blue eyes - Cropped

[2]Man with blue eyes - whole

A cool dude at the Pitti Palace in Florence.

Then two views of Nana Risi by
Lord Leighton.

The full portrait in Philadelphia and
she is stunning!!!

Enjoy,
Titanium

[WV.Artistry]

Good picks. I could talk a few paragraphs about Rembrandt van Rijn, but I'm partial to "Fatidica" (or Fauna or Fatua) by Frederick Lord Leighton (If you can find a good picture of it).

This is not really my favorite Ingres, nor my favorite Ingres portrait, but it gets an honorary favorite mention for this thread :)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
29 August 1780 - 14 January 1867
France

Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne
1806
Oil on canvas
101.97 x 63.78 inches / 259 x 162 cm
Musee de L'Armee, Paris, France

[JeffG]

I've always been smitten by Raphael's "Lady with a Unicorn". Years ago I did 2 bad copies of it... I think I want to do another (not so bad)

[WV.Artistry]

As you know already, Dave (dcorc) is working on a Raphael, "La Donna Velata" in the oil forum.

http://wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186771

Here's an entry by the self-professed inventor of oil paint.

Jan van Eyck
Netherlands, Northern Renaissance
1395 - 1441

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife
1434
Oil on oak
32.28 x 23.62 inches / 82 x 60 cm
National Gallery, London, England

I can only speculate that he used microscopes of some sort to paint this small and this intricately.

Richard

[Biki]

Some beautiful work here guys. Thanks for posting them.

Here are two of my favourites for a rather romantic reason.

There is an interesting story I was told, but I may get it a bit wrong so do excuse me.
this is a diptych painted by Frans Hals. I am not sure of the relationship between the two, as she is named Isabella Coymans, & he is named Stephanus Geraerdts. But I heard tell that these two were separated for many years, one in the Antwerp Royal museum & the other in Prague. Some time recently ( forget when) this romantic couple were reunited in a single exhibition after being separated for many years. (sigh)

However , have you ever noticed how couples were usually painted? - both totally disinterested in each other... one facing one way - the other, the other way. Aha - but here we have two people obviously in love.

I LOVE this diptych. I love the allure they show for each other. The way Isabell is obviously enarmoured with her man - even flirting with him.
What do you think.?

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/27-May-2004/23158-diptych_-_franz_hals._-_smaller.jpg

[WV.Artistry]

A case for watercolor . . .

Frank Cadogan Cowper (British, 1877-1958)

Mariana in the South, 1906
Watercolour
Inscribed 'And "Ah" she sang "to be all alone/to live forgotten and love forlorn".

Molly, Duchess of Nona, 1905
Watercolour
Size: 33.5 x 23 cm (13.25 x 9.25 in)
Private Collection
Molly is one of the many figures in Little Novels of Italy. The daughter of one Lovel, a wharfinger of the Wapping bank-side, by her beauty and her simple kindness of heart, won for her calculating husband the Dukedom of Nona

[WV.Artistry]

Another Lord Frederick Leighton
England, Victorian Neoclassicism (1830 - 1896)
Student of: Edward von Steinle.
Teacher of: William Hamo Thornicroft.
Mentor of: Alfred Gilbert, Charles Edward Perugini.

Biondina
1879
Oil on canvas
20.51 x 16.26 inches / 52.1 x 41.3 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

As best I can translate, Biondina means "Blonde Woman" in Italian.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Jun-2004/37442-leighton_biondina_2.jpg

[Biki]

Another Lord Frederick Leighton
England, Victorian Neoclassicism (1830 - 1896)
Student of: Edward von Steinle.
Teacher of: William Hamo Thornicroft.
Mentor of: Alfred Gilbert, Charles Edward Perugini.

Biondina
1879
Oil on canvas
20.51 x 16.26 inches / 52.1 x 41.3 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

As best I can translate, Biondina means "Blonde Woman" in Italian.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Jun-2004/37442-leighton_biondina_2.jpg

ooh - yes, Richard. Just look at those eyes.!!!

[LadyJane65]

Amazing work, thanks for starting this thread.

LJ

[WV.Artistry]

You're welcome, but this was Matt from Sweden's idea. I just lurk around a few other websites and similar threads to broaden my awares through study. I'm looking forward to your posts.

Here's a Pre-Raphaelite
John Everett Millais
England, 1829 - 1896

Close friend of Charles Edward Perugini

Some off-topic notes, is he has a portrait Lord Alfred Tennyson that looks similar to the palet of Bouguereau's self-portraits (or visa-versa). And his model for "The Sweetest Eyes Ever Seen" looks like she could be the same woman from "The Piper".

Personally, I think Millais is a great artist to look at while alternatively thinking about Waterhouse and Sargent.

The Order of Release, 1746
1852 - 1853
Oil on canvas
40.51 x 29.02 inches / 102.9 x 73.7 cm
Tate Gallery, London, England

Ophelia
1851 - 1852
Oil on canvas
30.00 x 44.02 inches / 76.2 x 111.8 cm
Tate Gallery, London, England

Elizabeth Siddal: study for Ophelia
1852
Pencil on paper
9.13 x 12.09 inches / 23.2 x 30.7 cm
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Added 3/27/2003

[loop]

A case for watercolor . . .

Molly, Duchess of Nona, 1905
Watercolour
Size: 33.5 x 23 cm (13.25 x 9.25 in)
Private Collection
Molly is one of the many figures in Little Novels of Italy. The daughter of one Lovel, a wharfinger of the Wapping bank-side, by her beauty and her simple kindness of heart, won for her calculating husband the Dukedom of Nona


wow my jaw hit the floor, this photo does not show it off, but, that could be a portrait of my wife, although she is not that old :D

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/07-Jun-2004/6307-New_Bitmap_Image.jpg

[david tark]

What a great idea.

Here's Velazquez's Pope Innocent X:


http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/07-Jun-2004/42877-resizevelazquez.innocent-x.jpg

Enjoy!

:)

David

[elances]

Here are a few of my personal favorites:

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), Portrait of Fra Hortensio Felix Paravicino, circa 1609:
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Jun-2004/28584-Fra_Hortensio_Felix_Paravicino.jpg

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Dr. Samuel Pozzi, 1881:
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Jun-2004/28584-Dr_Pozzi_at_Home_copy.jpg

(I never noticed before, but these first two could be related! Dark hair, slender, bearded, and their hands look so alike! :D )

Anthony J. Ryder, Self-portrait, 1997:
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Jun-2004/28584-self_portrait_Anthony_J_Ryder.jpg

Regards,
Erick

[elances]

I finally located a decent image of my sentimental favorite. This is a portrait done in 1963 of my great idol Leontyne Price, by the artist Bradley Phillips:

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Jun-2004/28584-Price_by_Bradley_Phillips.jpg

This portrait is one of many that the New York artist Bradley Phillips painted of Price. Phillips once indicated that his fascination with her stemmed partly from his awe at how she had negotiated the country's racial politics to reach the top of her profession. But he was mainly riveted by the sheer magnitude of her talent. Seeing her appear onstage, Phillips said, "It was as if she had switched the lights on."

[WV.Artistry]

wow my jaw hit the floor, this photo does not show it off, but, that could be a portrait of my wife, although she is not that old :D


Kudos on a great looking wife, Loop.

There's a girl that works as concierge for an apartment/gallery here, and I swear . . . she is an "exact" mirror of one of Bouguereau's often used models.

Spooky, ey? :)

I've been meaning to ask her if she'd sit for a photograph, and put her in a Bouguereau pose to show the B. fans on WC. But some people think I'm a little off as is. And I wouldn't want to upset her, y'know.

[yoyita_yoyita]

Kudos on a great looking wife, Loop.

There's a girl that works as concierge for an apartment/gallery here, and I swear . . . she is an "exact" mirror of one of Bouguereau's often used models.

Spooky, ey? :)

I've been meaning to ask her if she'd sit for a photograph, and put her in a Bouguereau pose to show the B. fans on WC. But some people think I'm a little off as is. And I wouldn't want to upset her, y'know.


Just show her an image of the B. painting and that may convince her to pose for the picture.

[Biki]

Kudos on a great looking wife, Loop.

There's a girl that works as concierge for an apartment/gallery here, and I swear . . . she is an "exact" mirror of one of Bouguereau's often used models.

Spooky, ey? :)

I've been meaning to ask her if she'd sit for a photograph, and put her in a Bouguereau pose to show the B. fans on WC. But some people think I'm a little off as is. And I wouldn't want to upset her, y'know.

don't be shy Rich - go for it.!! I expect she would be flattered. .... i would. :cool:

[nes7827]

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/28-Jun-2004/43141-John_Singer_Sargent9.jpg

The Pailleron Children 1882 (I think) J.S.Sargent

[elenardo]

Ivan Kramskoi
Portrait of Unknown Woman, 1883
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

[KimberScott]

wow my jaw hit the floor, this photo does not show it off, but, that could be a portrait of my wife, although she is not that old :D

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/07-Jun-2004/6307-New_Bitmap_Image.jpg

Wow! Isn't that crazy? They're definately from the same gene pool. Incredible likeness. Erie, almost.

[KimberScott]

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/28-Jun-2004/43141-John_Singer_Sargent9.jpg

The Pailleron Children 1882 (I think) J.S.Sargent

This is my all time favorite, also. One of my professors told me he saw it in person and it brought tears to his eyes.

[WFMartin]

One of my favorites, Madame Paul Poirson, by John Singer Sargent.

I saw this painting at the Phoenix Art Museum within the last year. It was quite incredible.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Jan-2005/13079-Madame_Paul_Poirson.jpg
Bill

[Ikneadaneraser]

Todd, if your wife has seen that painting, you'd better get busy and do your own version- don't pass up an opportunity to earn 'Brownie points'!!!
Make her-and you- famous!

[critchelow]

When the words "portrait" and "painter" are used in a sentence the first individual that comes to my mind is John Singer Sargent. Check out this link to the ARC.

http://artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=187&page=3

[Ager_Somnia]

Here are two of my favorite portraits. The first one is Portrait of a Sophie Gray by Sir John Everett Millais
Painting Date: 1857
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 11 3/4 x 9 in (30 x 23 cm)
I love how mysteries Sophie is and how she openly confronts the veiwer as if she wants you to understand her. I see a lot of myself in this portrait.
The second portrait is by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean-Louis Provost, seated and resting his left arm on the back of a chair
Drawing
7.05 x 4.80 inches / 17.9 x 12.2 cm
Private collection
Signed and dated 'Ingres. Rome 1813.'
I must say I've fallen quite in love him. I love the charming he seems. I've tried to find more information on Jean-Louis Provost but all I can find is that he was an architect and lived from 1784 to 1861. I hope that's not obsessive :(

[IamSCOTT]

"Gabrielle Cot"
Bouguereau, William 1890

[Squib]

What a wonderful thread. I'll have to search out my favourites and post them. And what a wealth of information. Fascinating. Thank you all !

[stazz]

here's my contribution:
living master from china, yugi wang.
his stuff is dang GORGEOUS!!! (imo, at least ;) )

Yugi Wang on Art Renewal Site (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=625&page=1)

the attached is his portrait of Fiona Wilmot-Sitwell-- and a detail image, just for kicks...

[yogi]

Okay, I cannot resist such an awesome thread! :D You all pointed out some of my favorites already! Here are three more of my all-time favorites, though:

Jia Lu (http://www.jialu.com/)

Don Crowley (http://www.doncrowleystudios.com/)

Ardith Starostka (http://www.starstudioarts.com/)

The girl in the gold robe (painting called "Bronze Bell," I believe) is by Jia Lu. The Native American girl is by Don Crowley. The girl picking fruit is by Ardith Starostka.

[stazz]

just took a look around that jia lu site... absolutely breathtaking work there! i've already sent a request out for her book. thanks so much for sharing her with us!

[Ager_Somnia]

I just visited Jia Lu's site too. My jaw literally dropted at several paintings. It's now on my favorites. Thanks yogi.

[yogi]

You're most certainly welcome. Anything to promote my favorite artists. :) "Welcome to WetCanvas" to the new members I see here, too! :wave:

[rjKing]

Wonderful thread.. Pope Innocent X by Velazquez was one I've already seen.. so its in the 'top 10' from my perspective..

Others by John Singer Sargent are represented already..

So I'll add two that instantly come to mind..

JSS: Lady Agnew..
Kathe Kollwitz: Self-Portrait

The only thing about this thread is, what to choose!

[Art Watcher]

wow my jaw hit the floor, this photo does not show it off, but, that could be a portrait of my wife, although she is not that old :D

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/07-Jun-2004/6307-New_Bitmap_Image.jpg

Really amazing! You must do it!

[SanDL]

Nice thread. I saw this one in Munich this summer and it blew me away, I got my nose less than an inch from the painting. I saw his nostrils flare. I swear I did. I saw every single articulated hair. It was an amazing experience.

[IamSCOTT]

sandl, do you know who the artist was? Or can you give a link to a larger image?

[SanDL]

I'm sorry. It's Albrecht Durer

[WFMartin]

I'm sorry. It's Albrecht Durer

I believe Durer also made some very intricate etchings, as I recall. Many years ago, before I began doing art, I was a lithographic cameraman, and I actually handled one or two of his original etchings, as I placed them in my copy camera, to make negatives of them to be printed.

I believe the etching I had, momentarily, was that of "Atlas". I don't recall....perhaps others who are more familiar with his work can offer a suggestion regarding what it may have been. The art piece was at that time the property of the Elvijem Art Center at the University of Wisonsin.

Bill

[SanDL]

I believe Durer also made some very intricate etchings, as I recall. Many years ago, before I began doing art, I was a lithographic cameraman, and I actually handled one or two of his original etchings, as I placed them in my copy camera, to make negatives of them to be printed.

I believe the etching I had, momentarily, was that of "Atlas". I don't recall....perhaps others who are more familiar with his work can offer a suggestion regarding what it may have been. The art piece was at that time the property of the Elvijem Art Center at the University of Wisonsin.

Bill
I think, Bill, I would have fainted. I revere Durer's work.
But that said, I'm a fan of Holbein's as well. I wish sometimes I had lived then and could have apprenticed under them.

[patdzon]

I believe Durer also made some very intricate etchings, as I recall. Many years ago, before I began doing art, I was a lithographic cameraman, and I actually handled one or two of his original etchings, as I placed them in my copy camera, to make negatives of them to be printed.

I believe the etching I had, momentarily, was that of "Atlas". I don't recall....perhaps others who are more familiar with his work can offer a suggestion regarding what it may have been. The art piece was at that time the property of the Elvijem Art Center at the University of Wisonsin.

Bill


One of my faves is his "four horsemen of the apocalypse(not sure of name)" etching(not sure either).

[WV.Artistry]

Jacques Louis David
Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/30-Jan-2005/53202-Farewell_of_Telemachus_and_Eucharis_UL2.jpg


Franz Xavier Winterhalter
Study of a Young Girl
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/30-Jan-2005/53202-study_of_a_young_girl_in_profile_UL.jpg

[WV.Artistry]

Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
Autumn Bunch
(Portrait of V.Repina, painter's daughter)
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/30-Jan-2005/53202-Autumn_Bunch_-_Portraint_of_Daughter_UL.jpg

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680)
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/30-Jan-2005/53202-Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa_UL.jpg

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Cleopatra
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/30-Jan-2005/53202-Cleopatra_UL.jpg

Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff (1848 - 1915)
Russian Beauty
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/30-Jan-2005/53202-A_Russian_Beauty_UL.jpg

[MarkMark]

Well here we are for what it's worth...http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/03-Feb-2005/46674-p084.jpg

[WV.Artistry]

Lord Frederick Leighton
England (1830 - 1896)
Gulnihal
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2005/53202-Gulnihal_UL.jpg



Jules Bastien-Lepage
France (1848 - 1884)
Sarah Bernhardt
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2005/53202-Sarah_Bernhardt_UL.jpg



Agnolo Bronzino
Italy (1503 - 1572)
Other names : Agnolo di Cosimo, or Agnolo Tori
Eleonora da Toledo with Son Giovanni
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2005/53202-Bronzino_1503-1572_Eleonora_Da_Toledo_with_Son_Giovanni.jpg




John Singer Sargent
American (1856 - 1925)
Francis B. Chadwick
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2005/53202-Francis_B_Chadwick_UL.jpg

[bjs0704]

Here are a few of my favorites:

1)
BELLINI, Giovanni, Italian painter, Venetian school (b. ca. 1426, Venezia, d. 1516, Venezia)

Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
1501
Oil on panel, 61,5 x 45 cm
National Gallery, London


2)
Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. Self Portrait with Daughter (Jeanne Julie Louise, 1780-1809). Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.

3)
Hans HOLBEIN the Younger
Sir Thomas More
1527
Tempera on wood, 74,2 x 59 cm
Frick Collection, New York


Barb Solomon:cat:

[Celeste McCall]

Artist: Joseph Francois Henri Van Lerius (1828-1876)
Title: Girl Holding Fruit
Date:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28.5 x 22"

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc4600/sc4680/100100/100171/images/100171.jpg

and

Franz Zuber Buhler

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/14-Feb-2005/34228-Zuberbuhler.jpg

Rembrant's entire self portrait series

This one has perfect composition

http://arthistory.westvalley.edu/images/R/REMBRANDT/SELF1661.JPG

[THEMERMAID]