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Sir William Rothenstein (British, 1872-1945) Self-portrait 60.9 x 50.9 cm. (24 x 20 in.) Painted circa 1925-30 image 1

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Sir William Rothenstein
(British, 1872-1945)
Self-portrait 60.9 x 50.9 cm. (24 x 20 in.) Painted circa 1925-30

Modern British and Irish Art

30 June 2021, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

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Sir William Rothenstein (British, 1872-1945)

Self-portrait
oil on canvas
60.9 x 50.9 cm. (24 x 20 in.)
Painted circa 1925-30

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Provenance
The Artist, thence by family descent
Private Collection, U.K.

Sir William Rothenstein was a man of broad talents. Born in Bradford in 1872, the fifth of six children to Bertha Dux and Moritz Rothenstein, a German-Jewish textile merchant. William proved his artistic prowess at a young age as evidenced by a highly competent boyhood self-portrait now in Sheffield Museums' collection. A regular exhibitor of portraits and landscapes with the New English Arts Club, Rothenstein is credited as a co-founder of the Carfax Gallery (there responsible for developing the English reputation of Rodin's sculpture) and authored several books including the first English monograph of Goya's work in 1900. He later became principal of the Royal College of Art and Trustee of the Tate Gallery, receiving a knighthood in 1931. A society figure, the National Portrait Gallery now holds more than 200 Rothenstein portraits of notable figures of his age, and his three-part memoirs Men and Memories features anecdotes about Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, James Whistler, Paul Verlaine, Edgar Degas, and John Singer Sargent.

Rothenstein painted at least thirteen self-portraits in oils throughout his life, and together they present his many guises: a confident youngster, a war artist, an educator, and collector. Nine of the thirteen known self-portraits are in institutional collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Royal College of Art, London. The present example has remained in the artist's family since its execution. Painted in the cottages of Iles Farm, Far Oakridge, Gloucestershire, to which the Rothenstiens moved in the mid-1920s, it is not thought to have been previously published or exhibited.

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