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The county Museum of Art will present “Artists by Themselves: Artists’ Portraits from the National Academy of Design,” tracing the stylistic development of the portrait in America. The show will run Feb. 7 through March 15.

The show will include 72 paintings from the National Academy’s collection of more than 1,300 portraits of artists, the largest such holding in the world, according to officials.

The works, most of them submitted by the artists as a condition of their membership in the academy, reflect American portraiture since the 1830s. Included are a self-portrait by Thomas Eakins and a self-image on ivory by Samuel F. B. Morse, founder of the academy. Modern portrait subjects include Maxfield Parrish, Edwin Dickinson and James Wyeth.