Self-Portrait is a 1794 portrait painting by the Irish artist Martin Archer Shee. A self-portrait painted when the artist was ages around twenty five, he is shown in the fashionable powdered wig of the period. A leading portraitist of the Regency era, he was ovedhadowed by his friend and contemporary Thomas Lawrence. Archer Shee succeeded Lawrence as President of the Royal Academy in 1830 and held the post until his death in 1850 during the Victorian era.