Self-Portrait, 1776, Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 25 7/8 in. (90 x 65. 5 cm), Paintings, Anton Raphael Mengs (German, ?sti nad Labem (Aussig) 1728?1779 Rome), Born in Bohemia, Mengs became the most important painter in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Whereas Mengs's portraits of prominent sitters are notable for their delicacy, meticulous detail, and refined beauty, his self-portraits are essays in truthfulness