Self-Portrait
Artist	Joshua Reynolds
Year	1780
Medium	Oil on panel, portrait painting
Dimensions	127 cm × 101.6 cm (50 in × 40.0 in)
Location	Royal Academy, London

Self-portrait is a 1780 oil on panel self portrait by the British artist Sir Joshua Reynolds.^[1] Reynolds was a leading portraitist and had been President of the Royal Academy since its foundation in 1768. He produced a number of self-portraits during his long career, possibly inspired by the Old Master Rembrandt whose stance he imitates in the portrait.^[2] Reynolds is shown wearing the robes of the Doctorate of Civil Law which had been bestowed on him by Oxford University in 1773. Besides him is a bust of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra.^[3]

The painting was produced to hang in the Academy's new assembly room at Somerset House. It was hung alongside Reynold's Portrait of Sir William Chambers which functioned as a companion piece Chambers was an influential member of the Academy and drawn up the new design for the new headquarters .^[4]

• Cullen, Fintan. The Irish Face: Redefining the Irish Portrait. National Portrait Gallery, 2004
• McIntyre, Ian. Joshua Reynolds: The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy. Penguin Books, 2004.
• Sturgis, Alexander. Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press, 2006.
• Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society. Harvard University Press, 1998.

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