A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Australia’s first recorded professional female artist:
Painter, miniaturist, and printmaker Mary Morton Allport (1806-1895)

1. Self portrait as Ophelia, 1830s / Watercolor on ivory / Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, Australia

2. (Detail) Self portrait as Ophelia / Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, Australia

3. Self portrait, ND / Watercolor on ivory / Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, Australia

4. Self portrait with her children, c.1837 / Watercolor on ivory / Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, Australia

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