Young Teen College Girl Portrait

Self-portraits in general
• Gallery: painters at work
Many of the medieval portraits show the artist at work, and Jan van Eyck his chaperon hat has the parts normally hanging loose tied up on his head, giving the misleading impression he is wearing a turban, presumably for convenience whilst he paints. In the early modern period, increasingly, men as well as women who painted themselves at work had to choose whether to present themselves in their best clothes, and best room, or to depict studio practice realistically.