The portrait was donated to the Gallery in 1951 by Joyce's friend and patron Harriet Shaw Weaver. The year after this portrait was painted, in February 1922, Ulysses was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company. On the right is a 1921 portrait by Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957). A modernist contemporary of Joyce's, Lewis was a writer, painter, and critic, and co-founded the Vorticist movement in art. Joyce himself professed to know little of painting – in a 1906 letter to his brother Stanislaus he writes: “On all subjects – except socialism (for which you care nothing) and painting (of which I know nothing) – we have the same like or opinion”.ĭespite this apparent lack of knowledge on painting, he was the subject of quite a number of portraits! The portraits above are just two from the collection here at the National Gallery of Ireland.
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