TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
William Anderson Coffin
(American, 1855 - 1925)
Date1899
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 25 in.
Framed: 34 1/2 × 29 3/4 × 1 1/2 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "W. A. Coffin"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, November 6, 1899
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number246-P
Label TextCoffin requested that this self-portrait be replaced as his diploma-presentation work by a 1913 portrait by William T. Smedley. The Council accepted that painting on June 7, 1915. Yet as Coffin evidently did not remove his Self-Portrait, both works remain in the collection.
