James Green|Benjamin West

This painter left us two oil portraits of himself in 1818, both now hanging side by side. One shows a three-quarter view of the artist in coat and cravat; the other gives us the same image as a fragment cut from a larger canvas. Both works belong to the early 1800s American tradition of self-portraiture, when artists often painted themselves long after the fact. Tap Benjamin West (1818, Oil on canvas) to see the full-length version next.