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Self-Portrait
    • TitleSelf-Portrait
  • Technique/ MaterialPencil and watercolour on cardboard
  • DimensionsMått [dager]: (h x b) 9,1 x 6,9 cm
    Ram [med krön]: (h x b x dj) 12,8 x 8,3 x 0,7 cm
  • Artist/Maker Artist: John Smart, English, born 1741, dead 1811
  • Depicted PersonJohn Smart, English, born 1741, dead 1811
  • CategoryPaintings, Miniatures
  • Classificationpainting, Porträttminiatyr
  • Inventory No.NMB 2724
  • AcquisitionInventoried 2017 (Purchase 2016 Hjalmar and Anna Wicander Fund)
  • ExhibitedNationalmuseum, Room 1422 The Treasury
    Description
    Artist/Maker
    Images and media

    There are only nine known self-portraits of John Smart. This water-coloured drawing of his profile may be a draft for a miniature on ivory, the background material for most known self-portraits. The Nationalmuseum already had a frontal portrait in its collection.