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Selfie or Self Portrait

Posted on June 12, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

In 1548 Catharina van Hemessen painted herself at her easel, a painting remarkable only because it is considered to be the oldest surviving self portrait of an artist at work (1). The subject of “me by me, doing what I do” … Continue reading →

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