Summary edit

Self-portrait   (  )
Author	Thomas Flatman  (1634–1688)     Alternative names Montelion knight of the oracle, Description English painter, engraver, mezzotinter, miniature painter and poet Date of birth/death 21 February 1635 / 1637 / 21 February 1634  8 December 1688  Location of birth/death London London Work location London (1660–1688)  Authority file : Q7789645 VIAF: 49570720 ISNI: 0000000117625339 ULAN: 500014033 LCCN: n84133185 NLA: 35826053 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q7789645 Photo by VAwebteam at English Wikipedia
Title	Self-portrait
Description	English: Thomas Flatman, 1635-88, Self-portrait, Dated 1673, Watercolour on vellum, stuck to a table-book leaf, Signed lower left 'TF' in monogram, and dated 1673. Inscribed in graphite on the back 'Portrait / of / Thomas Flatman / (the poet) / by himself / 1673' V&A Museum no. P.79-1938, Given by the Basil S. Long Memorial Fund Thomas Flatman, a lawyer, poet and miniaturist, described himself as a 'Gentleman'. This searching self-portrait is typical of his unglamorous miniatures, which were mostly of friends, fellow lawyers and officials.
Date	Dated 1673 14 October 2007 (original upload date)
Medium	watercolor on vellum
Collection	Victoria and Albert Museum    Native name Victoria and Albert Museum Location London Coordinates 51° 29′ 27″ N, 0° 07′ 38″ W Established 1852  Website www.vam.ac.uk Authority file : Q213322 VIAF: 128776887 ISNI: 0000000123230472 ULAN: 500302040 LCCN: n79066252 OSM: 29795 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q213322
Source/Photographer	http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/portrait-miniatures-post-restoration/

Licensing edit

For the original painting:

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse The author died in 1688, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

In as much as the photograph of the painting and frame merit copyright protection:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue

	This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
	You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
	This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue

This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by a Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2008020510006887. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the VRT noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2008020510006887 Find other files from the same ticket:

Original upload log edit

Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Quadell using CommonsHelper.

• 2007-10-14 10:26 VAwebteam 408×537× (47632 bytes) Thomas Flatman, 1635-88, Self-portrait, Dated 1673, Watercolour on vellum, stuck to a table-book leaf, Signed lower left 'TF' in monogram, and dated 1673. Inscribed in graphite on the back 'Portrait / of / Thomas Flatman / (the poet) / by himself / 1673'