We ended July with The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
There is no self portrait known and only one portrait drawing by Francesco Melzi, pupil of da Vinci. So I’ll post that one.

Francesco Melzi
(1491 - 1567)

Francesco Melzi, or Francesco de Melzi (1491–1567), was an Italian painter born into a family of the Milanese nobility in Lombardy. He became a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci and remained as his closest professional assistant throughout his career. After da Vinci's death he became the literary executor of all da Vinci's papers, editing them into a manuscript on painting he published as Trattato della Pittura [Treatise on Painting] or a compilation entitled the Codex Urbinas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Melzi

Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
circa 1515–1517
27.5 x     19 cm
The Royal Collection of the British royal family

Mona Lisa (Gioconda)
Posted on July 31st

Jacques-Émile Blanche
(1861 - 1942)
 

Jacques-Émile Blanche was a French artist, largely self-taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Émile_Blanche

Portrait de l'artiste (Portrait of the artist)
Circa 1890
Oil on canvas
75,5 x 53,5 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

Portrait de Claude Debussy
Posted on July the 30th

Vincent van Gogh
(1853 - 1890)
 

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterized by bold colors and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Self portrait
1887
Oil on artist's board, mounted on cradled panel
42 x 33,7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/80607/self-portrait

 

Portrait of Armand Moulin
Posted on July the 29th

Edgar Degas
(1834 - 1917)
 

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist, and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas

Self Portrait Saluting
C. 1865
Oil on canvas
92.1 x 69 cm
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

Portrait of a Young Woman
Posted on July the 28th

 Paul Cézanne
(1839 - 1906)
 

Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th century Cubism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne

 

Self portrait with palette
1885
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm
E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland

 

Portrait of Anthony Valabrègue
Posted on July the 27th

Fujishima Takeji
(1867 - 1943)

 

Fujishima Takeji (藤島 武二) was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujishima_Takeji

Self portrait
1903
Oil on canvas
Artizon Museum, Tokyo
https://www.artizon.museum/en/collection/art/22688
 

 

Portrait of an Italian Lady
Posted on July the 25th

Frederic Leighton
(1830 - 1896)

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA, known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter in an academic style. His paintings were enormously popular and expensive, during his lifetime, but fell out of critical favour for many decades in the early 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton

Self-portrait
1880
Oil on canvas
76,5 x 64 cm
Uffizi, Florence

Portrait of May Sartoris
Posted on July the 25th

Juan Gris
(1887 - 1927)
 

José Victoriano González-Pérez better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gris

Self-Portrait No. 1
1909-1910
Charcoal on cream laid paper
47,9 x 31,6 cm
Philadelphia museum Art
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/132855

Portrait of Pablo Picasso
Posted on July the 24th

Henri Fantin-Latour
(1836 - 1904)

 

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Fantin-Latour

Autoportrait. Portrait de l'artiste âgé de 23 ans (Self portrait at age 23)
1859
Oil on canvas
101 x 83,5 cm
Museum of Grenoble, France

 

Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie Fantin-Latour
Posted July 23

Mariano Fortuny
(1871 - 1949)
 

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo was a Spanish polymath, artist, inventor and fashion designer who opened his couture house in 1906 and continued until 1946. He was the son of the painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Fortuny_(designer)

 

Self-Portrait by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo
tempera on cardboard
44 x 34 cm
Museo di Palazzo Fortuny

Portrait of Henriette Fortuny
Posted July the 21nd

Jan Adam Kruseman
(1804 - 1862)

Jan Adam Kruseman was a Dutch painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also did landscapes and genre scenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Adam_Kruseman

Self portrait
1827
Oil on canvas
56,4 x 45,3 cm
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
https://collectie.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/zoeken-in-de-collectie/detail/id/ed6fbaeb-a490-5d49-afb6-10530468e5c8

William II King of the Netherlands, 1840

Posted July the 21st

Isaac Brodsky
(1883 - 1939)
 

Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky (Russian: Исаак Израилевич Бродский) was a Soviet painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movement of socialist realism. He is known for his iconic portrayals of Lenin and idealized, carefully crafted paintings dedicated to the events of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik Revolution. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Brodsky

Self portrait with daughter
1911
Oil on canvas
72 × 99 cm
Museum-apartment of I. I. Brodsky, Saint Petersburg

Portrait of Kliment Voroshilov in his Office
Posted July the 20th

Giovanni Carnovali
(1804 - 1873)

 

Giovanni Carnovali known as Il Piccio ('the little one'), was an Italian painter.
Carnovali was born in Montegrino Valtravaglia (Varese). In 1815, at the age of just 11, he was admitted to the Carrara Academy in Bergamo under the guidance of the director Giuseppe Diotti, who immediately recognised his young pupil's natural talent. The artist soon began to break away from the strict Neoclassicism of his academic training and return to the figurative tradition of the 16th and 17th century, which he interpreted with great expressive freedom, especially in portrait painting. His debut at the exhibition of the Carrara Academy and his first major public commission for a work on a religious subject came in 1826. After the first short trips for study purposes, made on foot in the second half of the 1820s, he travelled as far as Rome in 1831 and stopped in Parma on the way back.

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Carnovali

Self-portrait Giovanni Carnovali (called "il Piccio")
circa 1846-1850
height: 78 x 58 cm
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy
https://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/C0050-00896/

 

 Portrait of Pietro Ronzoni
Posted July the 19th

Ryūsei Kishida
(1891 - 1929)
 

Ryūsei Kishida (岸田 劉生) was a Japanese painter in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. He is best known for his realistic yōga-style portraiture, but also for his nihonga paintings in the 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryūsei_Kishida

Self-Portrait Ryūsei Kishida
1914
Oil on canvas
Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Japan

Portrait of Koya Yoshio(Portrait of a Man Holding a Plant)
Posted on July 18th

And another artist who was too modest to paint or draw himself. At least I didn’t find a self-portrait for this man either.
I did find a portrait by a contemporary painter…
 

Friedrich Dürck
(1809 - 1884)
 

Friedrich Dürck was a German portrait and genre painter.
His uncle was the royal Bavarian court painter Joseph Stieler.
In 1828 (at 19 years old) he exhibited a portrait in public for the first time and soon became a well-known painter in Munich. He traveled to Italy in 1836 and stayed in Rome and Florence until 1837. After his return he lived in Munich and portrayed numerous personalities from public life and the Bavarian court, including King Ludwig I in 1858. In 1849 he accepted an invitation to the Swedish court and in 1854 to the Austrian court. After 1860 he painted mainly genre and costume paintings.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Dürck

Portrait of Friedrich Dürck 

by Philipp Foltz (1805 – 1877 German history painter)
C. 1842
Pencil
25 x 17 cm
Nationalgalerie Berlin

Portrait of D. Amélia
Posted July the 17th

 For the next artist I didn’t find a self portrait. I however found a photograph that is supposed to be him.

Thomas Cromwell Corner
(1865 - 1938)

<i>Thomas Cromwell Corner (1865–1938) was a portrait artist from Baltimore, Maryland, USA and founding member of the Baltimore Museum of Art. </I>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell_Corner

Thomas Cromwell Corner

 

 

 

Henry Walters (1848-1931)
Posted on July 16th

Mary Beale
(1633 - 1699)
 

Mary Beale was an English portrait painter. She was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London. Beale became the main financial provider for her family through her professional work – a career she maintained from 1670/71 to the 1690s. Beale was also a writer, whose prose Discourse on Friendship of 1666 presents a scholarly, uniquely female take on the subject. Her 1663 manuscript Observations, on the materials and techniques employed "in her painting of Apricots", though not printed, is the earliest known instructional text in English written by a female painter. Praised first as a "virtuous" practitioner in "Oyl Colours" by Sir William Sanderson in his 1658 book Graphice: Or The use of the Pen and Pensil; In the Excellent Art of PAINTING, Beale's work was later commended by court painter Sir Peter Lely and, soon after her death, by the author of "An Essay towards an English-School", his account of the most noteworthy artists of her generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beale

Mary Beale, Self-portrait
(c. 1675–1680)
oil on hessian
89 x 73 cm
West Suffolk Heritage Service, St Edmundsbury Museums
https://artuk.org/discover/artists/beale-mary-16331699

Portrait of a Physician
Posted July 15th

Renato Guttuso
(1911 - 1987)
 

Aldo Renato Guttuso was an Italian painter and politician. He is considered to be among the most important Italian artists of the 20th century and is among the key figures of Italian expressionism. His art is characterized by social and political commentary, and as a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) he became its senator for two legislatures, from 1976 to 1983, during Enrico Berlinguer's secretariat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Guttuso

Self-Portrait
1936
Oil on canvas
49 x 60,5 cm
Gallery of Modern Art “Empedocle Restivo”, Palermo, Italy

This self-portrait by Renato Guttuso belongs to a new season of his production, rich of stimuli and characterised by a strong and profound emphasis on colours. After having returned to Milan, the Sicilian master made a shift in his viewpoint: from a close-up, oblique perspective, he takes on the traditional pose of a ‘gloomy’ person, face in hand, a scorn cigarette hanging idly from his mouth, his gaze piercing and intense.

Portrait of Alberto Moravia
Posted on July the 14th

 Francesco Hayez
(1791 - 1882)
 

Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Hayez

Self-portrait with Tiger and Lion
1931
Oil on panel
51 x 43 cm
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano, Italy

For this self-portrait Hayez chose a panel with an unusual horizontal format and a rather peculiar angle of the image. The artist is not the centre of the scene but represented himself in a corner, looking quizzically at the viewer. He wears a smock and painter’s cap, like those we see in some portraits by Rembrandt.
The painting is almost entirely taken up by the cage with a lion and tiger. The subject of the wild creatures, read in the past as an allegory of art taming nature, was dear to the Romantic taste for Orientalism.
The work dates from the early 1830s, when the artist had moved from Venice to Milan.

 

 

 Portrait of Carolina Zucchi (The Sick Woman) (Carolina in Bed)
Posted on July 13th

Beauford Delaney
(1901- 1979)
 

Beauford Delaney was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950s. Beauford's younger brother, Joseph, was also a noted painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauford_Delaney

Self-Portrait
1944
Oil on canvas
68,6 x 57,2 cm
Art institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111629/self-portrait

Portrait of James Baldwin
Posted last month (July the 12th)

Jan Gossaert
(c. 1478 - 1532)
 

Jan Gossaert was a French-speaking painter from the Low Countries also known as Jan Mabuse (the name he adopted from his birthplace, Maubeuge) or Jennyn van Hennegouwe (Hainaut), as he called himself when he matriculated in the Guild of Saint Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503. He was one of the first painters of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting to visit Italy and Rome, which he did in 1508–09, and a leader of the style known as Romanism, which brought elements of Italian Renaissance painting to the north, sometimes with a rather awkward effect. He achieved fame across at least northern Europe, and painted religious subjects, including large altarpieces, but also portraits and mythological subjects, including some nudity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gossaert

Portrait of a man, possible self-portrait
c. 1525
Oil on panel
43 x 31 cm
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
https://collections.currier.org/objects-1/info/252

 

The identity of the man pictured in this portrait has been the subject of considerable debate. The sitter’s neutral attire, which does not immediately associate him with the nobility or the church, has prompted some art historians to speculate that he was a successful painter.1 Others have suggested that the painting is a self-portrait of Gossaert;2 however, it is impossible to determine this with certainty, since only a few vague likenesses of the artist are known.3 The large badge affixed underneath the brim of the man’s hat resembles similar badges found in several other portraits of prosperous gentlemen and aristocrats painted by Gossaert in the same period.4 In spite of the uncertainty regarding the sitter’s identity, it is clear that Portrait of a Man depicts an individual of elevated status and considerable prestige.

 

Portrait of hendrik iii count of Nassau Breda
Posted on July 11th.

 Frida Kahlo
(1907 - 1954)
 

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo

Self-portrait in a velvet dress
1926
Oil on canvas
78 × 61 cm
Private collection, Mexico City
https://www.fridakahlo.org/self-portrait-in-a-velvet-dress.jsp

The picture is considered if not Kahlo's first self-portrait then at least her first significant self-portrait. It is her oldest surviving self-portrait and has been described as her, "earliest important work" and, "her first serious work". It has also been described as, "her first real painting."

Portrait of my Father Wilhelm Kahlo
Posted on July 10th

 <b>Joshua Reynolds</b>
(1723 - 1792)

<i>Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA was an English painter who specialised in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts and was knighted by George III in 1769.</i>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Reynolds

Self-portrait
Circa 1750
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 47.6 cm
Yale Center for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:51957

Portrait of Master Bunbury
Posted on July 9th

Sam Yeates
(b. 1951)
 

Sam Yeates is an American artist. He grew up on a farm 16 miles outside of Stephenville, Texas. After graduating from North Texas University with a BFA in Drawing and Painting, Sam Yeates began working for the Armadillo World Headquarters in the Capitol City, making posters and musical promotional art. Yeates freelanced for several years with clients, including Willie Nelson, Budweiser Brewing and Warner Bros. Records. In the late 80’s Yeates, began teaching painting, drawing, and mural execution at Austin Community College. He continues to paint, mostly with oils and acrylics, and exhibit his work that addresses his rural Texan upbringing, and the solitude of his native, wide-open landscapes.

https://www.samyeates.net/about-the-artist-and-contact

Self-portrait
2017
48,3 x 50,8 cm
Private collection

Portrait of a Woman with a Blue Guitar.
Posted on 8th of July

 For the next artist I only found an engraving, not a self portrait. There will probably some more artists to come without a self portrait. We’ll see…

Francis Cotes
(1726 - 1770)
 

Francis Cotes RA was an English portrait painter, one of the pioneers of English pastel painting (or drawing), and a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cotes

Portrait of Francis Cotes RA, 1792?
After Pierre-Étienne Falconet (1741 - 1791)  

Peter (Pierre-Etienne) Falconet was a French portrait painter. This is his self portrait:

And this was the portrait posted in July by Francis Cotes:

Portrait of Joseph (1741-1786) and his Brother John Gulston (1750-1764)
Posted on July the 7th.