Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-strang-534" aria-label="More by William Strang" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William Strang</a>
SelfPortrait
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1921
adults
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
clothing and personal items
fine arts and music
hat, cap
man
named individuals
objects
paintbrush
painting
palette
people
portraits
scarf
self-portraits
spectacles
Strang, William
work and occupations
<p>When Strang exhibited this self-portrait at the Royal Academy in 1919, he gave it the simple title ‘A Painter’, suggesting that he was striving for an effect of timelessness and universality.</p><p>Strang had been one of the innovators of the modern style in Britain, drawing on Impressionism and Symbolism, but the direct gaze and symmetry of this picture owes an obvious debt to the self-portraits of Rembrandt. Here, in his old age, Strang refers to a traditional model of the artist as a workman secluded in his studio.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
3 November 2003 – 19 January 2004
2004-01-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-11-03
Portraits of Artists
Collection based display
Self-Portrait
support: 1168 × 1118 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1921
<div class="pbodytext">
<span class="text0">When Strang exhibited this self-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> at the Royal      Academy in 1919, he gave it the simple title ‘A Painter’,      suggesting that he was striving for an effect of timelessness and      universality. </span>
</div>
<div class="pbodytext">
<span class="text0">
<br/> </span>
</div>
<div class="pbodytext">
<span class="text14">Strang had been one of the innovators of</span><span class="text0"> the modern style in Britain, drawing on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>Impressionism</span></a> and      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/symbolism" title="Glossary definition for 'Symbolism'"><span>Symbolism</span></a>, but the </span><span class="text14">direct gaze and symmetry of      this picture owes an obvious debt to the self-portraits of Rembrandt. Here,      in his old age, Strang</span><span class="text0"> refers to a      traditional model of the artist as a workman secluded in his studio. </span>
</div>

Display caption
2004-09-09T00:00:00
display-caption
DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N03629</b> SELF-PORTRAIT 1919</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Inscr. ‘W. Strang. 1919’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 46×44 (117×111·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1921.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1919 (628), as ‘A Painter’; R.A., <i>Works by Recently Deceased Members</i>, January–February 1922 (66).
<br/>
<br/>[no further details]
<br/>
<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
<br/></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults artist, painter arts and entertainment clothing and personal items fine arts and music hat, cap man named individuals objects paintbrush painting palette people portraits scarf self-portraits spectacles Strang, William work and occupations