Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Alice Neel, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Chuck Close, Marlene Dumas, Jenny Saville, Kehinde Wiley, Amy Sherald, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Zanele Muholi
Books and other resources
Borzello, F. (2018) Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self Portraits. London: Thames and Hudson.
Higgie, J (2021) The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 years of Women's Self Portraits. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Higgins, J. (2013) 21st Century Portraits. London: National Portrait Gallery.
Katz, J. D. (2010) Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Washington: Smithsonian.
Meskimmon, M. (1996) The Art of Reflection: Women Artists’ Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century. London: Scarlet Press.
Mullins, C (2006) Painting People: The state of the art. London: Thames and Hudson
Peraica, A. (2017) Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures e-book:
Wendt, B. (2014) The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self-Portrait (Network Notebook no. 08). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures very short e-book: