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Portrait of the Artist

A series examining famous self-portraits

World Service,6 episodes

Episodes

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Peter Blake
An examination of the self portrait 'The Meeting' by Peter Blake
22 Dec 1995,8 mins
Stanley Spencer
An examination of British painter Stanley Spencer's nude self portrait
05 Dec 1995,8 mins
Marc Chagall
An examination of 'Bouquet with Flying Lovers' by the Russian artist Marc Chagall
01 Dec 1995,8 mins
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Examining a self-portrait of 17th-century French artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
16 Nov 1995,8 mins
Thomas Gainsborough
Describing a self-portrait by English portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough
16 Nov 1995,8 mins
William Hogarth
'The Painter And His Pug' an examination of William Hogarth's self portrait
13 Nov 1995,8 mins