Self-portrait of the artist

Details

George Spencer Watson, R.A., R.W.S., R.O.I. (1869-1934)
Self-portrait of the artist
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Exhibited

London, Hampstead Art Gallery, 1920.
London, The Fine Art Society, 1934.
Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, 1982.

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Lot Essay

The present self-portrait indicates a conventional middle-aged, would-be Academician. The angle at which Watson catches his mirror image is similar to that in the Four Loves I Found, his most celebrated work, of 1922.

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