TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
William Jay Bolton
(English, 1816 - 1884)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 19 7/8 × 16 in.
Framed: 25 5/8 × 21 1/2 × 1 3/8 in.
SubmissionANA diploma presentation
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number122-P
Label TextA photograph of this painting held in Academy files confirms that it has been cut down sometime prior to its illustration in the 1936 article on Bolton in Stained Glass. The original dimensions were probably the requisite diploma portrait size, 30 by 25 inches. Of the two portraits of Bolton in the collection (see 123-P), this is the more finely drawn and painted and for the century following its presentation seems the one better cared for. Consequently, it is accepted as being from Bolton's hand and his official ANA diploma work.
