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Self Portrait by Anthony Van Dyck (after 1633) in a private collection (Photo courtesy of Sotheby

The Belgian artist who set the tone for British portraiture

Self-Portrait (c. 1748) by Joshua Reynolds, aged 24, at the National Gallery, London (Photo courtesy of the National Gallery)

Joshua Reynolds

A baroque painter of fussy British portraits set in Renaissance-style scenes

Self Portrait (c. 1758-1759) by Thomas Gainsborough, at the National Gallery, London (Photo by the National Gallery)

Thomas Gainsborough

A Titan of England's early baroque era

Self Portrait playing a lute (c. 1663/65) by Jan Steen, in Madrid's Museo Thyssen (Photo courtesy of the Museo Thyssen)

A 17C Dutch genre painter who mastered the genre of peasants having fun

A Self-Portrait detail in The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600) by Caravaggio in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome (Photo courtesy of San Luigi dei Francesi)

The baroque master of chiaroscuro, turning the dance of darkness and light into story and character

Portrait of the Artist (1623) by Peter Paul Rubens, in the Royal Collection, London (Photo courtesy of the Royal Collection)

One of the greatest baroque Flemish painters, astoundingly prolific and fond of fleshy women

Self Portrait of Giambattista Tiepolo (1752–53), detail from the Residenz Würzburg ceiling frescoes (Photo courtesy of the Residenz Würzburg)

By a long shot the best Italian rococo painter

Self-Portrait (1650) by Nicolas Poussin in the Louvre, Paris (Photo courtesy of the Louvre)

Nicolas Poussin

A classicist French baroque painter

Portrait of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1721) by Rosalba Carriera, in the Museo Civico Luigi Bailo, Treviso (Photo courtesy of the Museo Civico Luigi Bailo)

Jean-Antoine Watteau

A French rococo baroque painter of grandly theatrical works

The Artist in his Studio (c. 1730/35), by François Boucher in the Louvre, Paris (Photo courtesy of the Louvre)

François Boucher

18C French court painter or baroque portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes

Self Portrait (1760/70) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Musée Fragonard, Grasse, France (Photo courtesy of The Yorck Project)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

An 18C French rococo master of pastel scenes and frolicking lovers

Portrait of Frans Hals (1648–50), a copy (by one of his followers) of a self-portrait, in the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Photo courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art)

A baroque master devoted to depicting typical life during the Dutch Golden Age

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