# Self-Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WAITT, Richard]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 107 x 127 cm ## Commentary This self-portrait shows the artist sitting at his easel pointing to a painting that he has just completed. The painting of the nude on his easel is probably a representation of 'sight' from the traditional series of the five senses, explaining the little hand-mirror - and, of course, the unseen mirror into which Waitt himself looks. Or perhaps the woman, who gazes towards the artist rather than her mirror, symbolises the art of portraiture itself. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of John 20th Earl of Crawford and Lindsay]() - [The Cromartie Fool]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()