Thomas Dewing
(1851 – 1938)

Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution has a collection of his works. He was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing. 

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

The Letter
1908
oil on panel
49.8 × 61 cm
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, United States
https://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/54976/the-letter?ctx=9eb1acf5f9624a72bbe9d953d33a5e605d4f3c40&idx=0

Manuel Diaz Meré
(b. 1988)
 

Manuel Diaz Meré (Madrid, 1988) was born into a family of musicians, engineers and painters. His early vocation for the drawing and influence of his grandfather, musician and painter, determined his decision to devote himself to painting, licensing in Fine Arts by the Complutense University of Madrid (2014). He continued his training as a figurative painter through several master workshops taught by renowned artists such as Antonio López (Masterful Workshop of painting of Fabero, 2016, 2017 and 2019; IX Course of the Extraordinary Chair City of Albacete, 2018), Julio López Hernández and Tomás Bañuelos Ramón (Masterful Workshop of sculpture of Fabero, 2017), among others.

https://zapadores.org/profile/manuel-diaz-mere/

Selfportrait at the mirror with dust
2020
Oil on wood
101 × 80 cm
Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores, Madrid, Spain 

Claude Lefèbvre
(1632 - 1675)

Claude Lefèbvre was a French painter and engraver.
In 1654 he studied with Eustache Le Sueur in Paris, and after Le Sueur's death in 1655, with Charles Le Brun. Under Le Brun he probably assisted in the preparation of cartoons (untraced) for the tapestry series History of the King (Château of Versailles) and painted a Nativity (untraced) for Louis XIV, but Le Brun found Lefèbvre's compositions poor and encouraged him to specialize in portraiture.
Lefèbvre soon established himself as a leading portrait artist, and in 1663, at the age of thirty, he was received (reçu) as a member of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture in anticipation of his portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (Château of Versailles). Lefèbvre spent several years creating the portrait and finally presented it on 30 October 1666. He was an assistant professor at the Académie beginning in 1664. Among his students were François de Troy and Jean Cotelle, le jeune.


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

The Artistes Eldest Daughter Combing her Little Brother's Hair
17th Century
Oil on canvas
102 × 82.5  cm.
Rmn-Grand Palais, Paris, France
https://musee-magnin.fr/en/collection/objet/artists-eldest-daughter-combing-her-little-brothers-hair

Gerrit Dou
1613–1675)

Gerrit Dou, also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro. He was a student of Rembrandt. 

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

A Young Woman at her Toilet
1667
Oil on panel
58 × 75.5 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/1738/A-Young-Woman-at-Her-Toilet

Edward Henry Corbould
(1815 - 1905)
 

Edward Henry Corbould, R.I was a British artist, noted as a historical painter and watercolourist. Corbould was known for his water-colours, in which he produced subjects illustrating literature (mainly from Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare), history, and daily life. A few of his pictures are in oils (e.g. The Canterbury Pilgrims, 1874).

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

The magic mirror 
1853
Watercolour
118 × 151 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/302.2016/

The subject of this painting is from Sir Walter Scott’s poem 'The lay of the last minstrel' (1805). The lovesick Earl of Surrey – courtier, soldier and poet at the court of Henry VIII – is awestruck before an apparition of ‘the fair Geraldine’, to whose lifelong service he had devoted his pen. He kneels in a magic circle surrounded by an array of cabbalistic implements. The vision of Surrey’s unattainable maiden (seen reclining on a couch reading her lover’s verses) is conjured in a magic mirror by the agency of the sorcerer, Cornelius Agrippa.

Archimede Bresciani da Gazoldo
(1881- 1939)
 

Archimede Bresciani  was an Italian painter.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimede_Bresciani

 

Woman in the mirror (The Spanish shawl)
1924
Oil on canvas
207 x 145 cm 
Museo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti, Italy

 Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)
 

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. His career spanned more than 76 years, from his late teens to his death in 1973. 

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

Girl before a Mirror 
1932
Oil on canvas
162 × 130 cm 
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78311

<i>The painting is a portrait of Picasso's mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who is depicted standing in front of a mirror looking at her reflection. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1938.</I>

Lola Sandino Stanton

Lola Sandino Stanton is originally from Bluefields, Nicaragua.
She attended college in the US through a scholarship from The Institute of International Education. After graduation she worked as a photographer and, for most of her working life, she wrote, photographed and produced educational materials. In 1977 she received her Master's Degree in Art Education from The City College of New York.

https://www.lolastantonart.com/about

Raquel
Oil on canvas
Hudson Guild, New York, United States
A young woman on the edge of graduation from High School. 
The blackbird was her spirit guide and the mirror reflection shows the bird giving her advice.

 Elliott Erwitt
(1928 - 2023)

Elliott Erwitt was born in Paris in 1928 to a Russian family. He spent his childhood in Milan. In 1939, his family immigrated to the United States. In 1951, he was drafted into the Army, where he performed photographer's duties during his service in Germany and France. In New York, Erwitt met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa, and Roy Stryker, the former Director of the Farm Security Administration’s information division. Stryker initially hired Erwitt to work on a photography project for the Standard Oil Company, where he created a photo library for the company. Elliott also completed a project for the Pittsburgh Photographic Library. In 1953, Erwitt joined the team of Magnum Photos. He also worked as a freelance photographer for Collier’s, Look, LIFE, Holiday, and other famous publications. In the late 1960s, Erwitt became the president of Magnum Photos and held the position for three years. Despite regular criticism towards Erwitt and the use of such characterizations as ‘shallow’ or ‘frivolous’ regarding his work, he remains one of the most popular and sought-after photographers. His images have been published in at least 19 books and exhibited in museums all around the world. Erwitt was awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal and an honorary fellowship (HonFRPS) in 2002 in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography. In 2011, he received the International Center for Photography’s Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement.

SANTA MONICA (CALIFORNIAN KISS). 
1955
Photograph
A special signed and oversized silver print was on auction at Sotheby’s in 2019
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/photographs-2/elliott-erwitt-california-kiss-santa-monica-1955
https://www.elliotterwitt.com/

Walter Sickert
(1860 - 1942)

Walter Richard Sickert  was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the mid and late 20th century.

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

The Old Bedford
1895
Oil on canvas
76.3 x 60.5 cm
National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-our-collection/highlights/2458

Following the example of Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883) and Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) and their paintings of Parisian cafes and theatres, Sickert painted the raucous nightlife of London’s music halls throughout his career. He was a regular visitor at the Bedford Music Hall in Camden Town, the subject of this painting. Sickert may have intended it as a sequel to his earlier picture of the child performer Little Dot Hetherington on the stage of the Bedford, in which she is shown pointing to this spot while singing the popular song, “The Boy I Love is up in the Gallery”. As well as recording vividly the atmosphere and setting of a late 19th century performance, this is a brilliant exercise in lighting and composition. Sickert exploits the contrast between the shadowy auditorium and the reflected glare of the stage, and creates tricks of space and perspective by means of the giant mirror on the left.

Eva Gonzalès
(1847 - 1883 )
 

Eva Gonzalès was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Berthe Morisot (1841–95), and Marie Bracquemond (1840–1916).
Gonzalès was born in Paris and became introduced to sophisticated literary and art circles at an early age by her father, writer Emmanuel Gonzalès. In 1865, at age sixteen, Eva Gonzalès began her professional training and art lessons in drawing from the society portraitist Charles Chaplin. 
Through her father's connections as a founding president of the Société des gens de lettres, she met a variety of members of the Parisian cultural elite, and from a young age was exposed to the new ideas surrounding art and literature at the time. Three years later she met Manet and soon became his model and then his student.

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

The Full-length Mirror
About 1869-70
Oil on canvas
39 x 26.5 cm
The National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/eva-gonzales-the-full-length-mirror

The young woman is Gonzalès’s younger sister Jeanne, also an artist and her constant model throughout her career. The subject is typical of her portrayals of young women which were shaped by the work of her first teacher Charles Chaplin and her second, Manet. It is probable that Gonzalès painted this in around 1869‒70, just after she became Manet’s only formal pupil.

 Alice Pike Barney
(1857–1931)

Alice Pike Barney was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C., and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and the Baháʼí writer Laura Clifford Barney.

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

The Spanish Shawl
ca. 1908
pastel on canvas
130 x 96.8 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, United States
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/spanish-shawl-1343

 <b>William Orpen</b> 
 (1878–1931)
 

Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA was an Irish artist who mainly worked in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in Edwardian society, though many of his most striking paintings are self-portraits. 

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

Ready To Start. Self Portrait, 1917
1917
Oil on canvas
49 x 60 cm
Imperial War Museums, London, United Kingdom
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20758

 Painted shortly after his arrival in France, Orpen is inspecting himself in the mirror wearing his military uniform. In a wonderfully revealing self-portrait, he sets out an artistic agenda of colour, pattern, light and texture and a social agenda of drink and sensuality that were to be fulfilled during his time in France.

Riva Lehrer
(b. 1958)
 

Riva Lehrer (born in 1958 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American painter, writer, teacher, and speaker. Lehrer was born with spina bifida and has undergone numerous surgeries throughout her life. Her work focuses on issues of physical identity and how bodies are viewed by society, especially in explorations of cultural depictions of disability. Lehrer is well known as both an artist and an activist in the field of Disability Culture.

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

Alison Bechdel
2011
Charcoal, graphite, opaque paint, and black wire with collage of paperboard on wove paper
76.2 x 111.8 cm
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © 2011 Riva Lehrer
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2019.101

Riva Lehrer started this portrait while Bechdel was working on Are You My Mother? (2012), her follow-up to Fun Home. Bechdel provided a drawing of her mother, which Lehrer then transferred onto paper. Lehrer says the portrait “grew out of discussions about being haunted by a lost parent, and [the awareness] that one’s mother is the ultimate mirror of the self for a daughter.” 

Gerard van Honthorst
(1696–1750)

Cornelis Troost was a Dutch actor and painter from Amsterdam. He was trained as an actor and married the actress Susanna Maria van der Duyn, but became a pupil of Arnold Boonen and gave up his career for painting in 1723. He is primarily remembered for his works depicting scenes from the Amsterdam Theatre (he also made theatre decorations for plays) and daily life of the upper crust in Amsterdam.

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

Self portrait
1739
oil on canvas
103 × 83 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Self-portrait--77a4046a7c1b1f8204a8746e27f51dd8

As a former actor and scene painter, Troost understood illusion. In this self-portrait he gazes from a mirror at himself and at us. The curtain, pedestal, palette and drawing on blue paper create a sense of depth. Every detail testifies to his technical skill. Notice how he conveyed the fine batiste cloth of his fashionable jabot – the frill of ruffles attached to his shirt – with a single stroke of white paint.

Berthe Morisot
(1841–1895)

 

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

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

The Psyche Mirror
1876
oil on canvas
65 × 54 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/morisot-berthe/psyche-mirror

 

At first sight, the connection between Morisot's painting and the Greek myth of Psyche seems to be far-fetched. The woman depicted does not really come across as someone from the Greek mythology. There is no trace of her beloved Amor either. Nevertheless, at the time when Morisot made this work, the current image was closely associated with her maker. Morisot had married Eugène Manet, younger brother of the painter Édouard Manet, in 1874. She had just entered a new phase in her life, where she would try to reconcile her existence as a wife and later as a mother with being an artist, which would cost her a lot of effort.

Wilhelm Bendz
(1804– 1832)
 

Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz was a Danish painter mainly known for genre works and portraits which often portray his artist colleagues and their daily lives. He was one of the most talented artists in the successful generation of painters who studied under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg but died early and has therefore left a relatively small oeuvre.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Bendz

 

A Young Artist (Ditlev Blunck) Examining a Sketch in a Mirror
1826
Oil on panel
98 x 85 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, København
https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS280/

 

The painting shows young Ditlev Blunck taking a break to examine a sketch for a portrait of George Valtin Sonne painting his brother, engraver Carl Edvard Sonne, by holding it up in front of a mirror to see if the composition works.

Salvador Dalí
(1904- 1989)

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

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

Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back 

Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors
1973
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm
Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain.
catalogues.salvador-dali.org/catalogues/en/heritageobject/94/

Spanish artist Salvador Dali retouches his moustache in front of a mirror
1964-01-01
Photograph
2832 x 4256 pixels.
Agencia EFE, Madrid, Spain

 Philippe Mercier
(1691 - 1760)

Philippe Mercier was an artist of French Huguenot descent from the German realm of Brandenburg-Prussia (later Kingdom of Prussia), usually defined to French school. Active in England for most of his working life, Mercier is considered one of the first practitioners of the Rococo style, and is credited with influencing a new generation of 18th-century English artists.

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

The Sense of Sight
1744 to 1747
Oil on canvas
132 cm x 153 cm 
The Yale Centre of British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:178

Aleardo Terzi 
(1870 - 1943)

Aleardo Terzi was an Italian illustrator and artist. He worked as an illustrator for a Rome daily called La Tribuna Illustrata.[1] He illustrated Italian versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and Gulliver's Travels.

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

Summer morning
1913
Oil on canvas
99 × 90.5 cm
Gallery of Modern Art "Empedocle Restivo”, Palermo, Italy

Richard E. Miller
(1875 - 1943)
 

Richard E. Miller (March 22, 1875 – January 23, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists. Miller was primarily a figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings. Miller grew up in St. Louis, studied in Paris, and then settled in Giverny. Upon his return to America, he settled briefly in Pasadena, California and then in the art colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life. Miller was a member of the National Academy of Design in New York and an award-winning painter in his era, honored in both France and Italy, and a winner of France's Legion of Honor. Over the past several decades, he has been the subject of a retrospective exhibition and his work has been reproduced extensively in exhibition catalogs and featured in a number of books on American Impressionism. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Miller

La Toilette
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 120.5 cm
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, United States
https://spencerart.ku.edu/art/collections-online/object/6940