Self-Portrait by Joshua Reynolds

Reynolds Self-Portrait
  • Date: ca. 1788
  • Type: Painting
  • Material: Oil on canvas
  • Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds

This was one of the last of the 27 self-portraits painted by Reynolds, painted when he was about 65.

Reynolds is wearing a white wig, curled to resemble his own hair and this is the only self-portrait in which Reynolds shows himself wearing spectacles: those shown here are ‘wig spectacles’, designed with extra-long, double-jointed sides to reach around the sitter’s wigged head.

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