Self-portrait, aged 21

Sir William Blake Richmond|Sir William Blake Richmond

ca. 1863 · Etching on chine collé · Drawings and Prints

One of only two known etchings by the artist, this work is based on a self-portrait watercolor (2016.588). On the brink of adulthood, the serious young man repeated a pose that his father, the successful artist George Richmond, had used in a self-portrait miniature painted when he too was twenty-one.

Artist

Sir William Blake Richmond|Sir William Blake Richmond

Date

ca. 1863

Medium

Etching on chine collé

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Andrew Clayton-Payne, 2016