Self-portrait

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• New details explain how self-portraits became marketable and how artists used them (gifts, studio demonstration), expanding the section beyond a simple definition.

Add: By the Baroque period most artists with an established reputation at least left drawings of themselves Printed portraits of artists had a market and many were self portraits They were also sometimes given as gifts to family and friends If nothing else they avoided the need to arrange for a model and for the many professional portrait painters a self portrait kept in the studio acted as a demonstration of.

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