#self-portrait

#self-portrait

The first-ever exhibition on Europe's most important early female painter, Catharina van Hemessen, will open later this year in Antwerp and come to London in 2027. It starts at the (15 October-31 January 2027), a museum of 16th- and 17th- century Flemish art in the city where she worked, and then goes in a more focused form to the National Gallery (4 March-30 May 2027).

Walking through the city one early morning, looking for paintings, I was attracted to the mysterious interior light of a store. It was quiet and I was alone. I set a timer on my phone and took a photo of myself as the figure.

Apple Martin is in her model era. She has landed her first major brand deal as the new face of London fashion house Self-Portrait. The modern fashion house and the 21-year-old college student, who is the daughter of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, announced their collaboration with a series of cheeky Instagram posts Sept. 9. "It is me, Ms. Apple Blythe Alison Martin, coming to you from the floor in a gorge Self-Portrait lil baby tee

Known for her layered and narrative based figuration that blends observation, memory and fantasy, Gregor works with the immediacy of gouache, recording potted plants, figurines and self-portraits. The self-portraits are often painted in front of larger, narrative-based works in progress, creating layers and connecting the various parts of her practice. These works are sites of play, discovery and experimentation, a space where instinct surfaces, later to be folded back into more ambitious compositions.

William Dobson, a prominent painter of the 17th century, became the court artist for the exiled Charles I but died in poverty, leaving only around 60 paintings.