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self-ˈportrait [tr. G. selbstbildnis, selbstporträt; cf. self- 1 d.] A self-made portrait of oneself. Cf. portrait n. 1 b and 3 b.
1831Fraser's Mag. Mar. 129/1 The two self-portraits, so far as they are filled up, may be looked upon as real likenesses. 1896Academy 25 Apr. 350/3 A self-portrait of the artist in the act of drawing. 1919Q. Rev. Oct. 322 The high society of the 17th century had shown their taste for an analysis of this kind in their self-portraits. 1975Amer. N. & Q. XIV. 58/2 G. C. Williamson, English Conversation Pictures of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries..provides a self-portrait of an era. 1977R. L. Wolff Gains & Losses vii. 413 As an authentic portrait (and self-portrait) of the late 1840's..Oakfield has no equal. Also self-ˈportraiture.
1847Bagehot in Prospective Rev. III. 532 Nor without the will can the self-scrutinizing power show to men those startling self-portraitures. 1979Dædalus Summer 89 The self-portraiture is but the further elaboration of a thought that was from the outset oriented toward personal life. |