Self Portrait

Artist John Singer Sargent (Florence, Italy, 1856 - 1925)

Date1886

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsHeight: 34.5 cm, Width: 29.7 cm
Frame Size: Height: 113.5 cm, Width: 67.3 cm
Frame Size: 54 x 49 x 10.5cm - Macdonald portrait frame
Frame Size: 49.3 x 44.5 x 9cm - modern frame

AcquisitionAlexander Macdonald Bequest, 1901.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG003876

Keywords

About MeOne of a series of ninety-one uniformly sized portraits and self-portraits of artists, collected by the Aberdeen granite merchant and patron of art, Alexander Macdonald (1831-1884). Alexander Macdonald died in 1884, but his wife, Hope Gordon Macdonald, continued to collect portraits of artists after his death. Macdonald had not owned any work by Sargent but they were both friendly with Joseph Farquharson and it may have been through contact with him, or with Sir James Murray that she determined to acquire a likeness of Sargent.
Sargent was thirty when he painted this self portrait. Incorrectly dated by Charteris to 1907.

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