Elizabeth Brunner became popular as a portrait painter as she made portraits of many prominent personalities who contributed to the national movement. she was also invited by many Maharajas to make portraits and add on to their collection.

This work of hers is a self portrait depicting her caracter as an intense artist.

Elizabeth Brunner was a Hungarian artist born in 1910. Her mother Elizabeth Sass Brunner too was an artist who had exhibited in the National Salon from 1914. Both the mother and daughter artist- duo lived and travelled in India extensively and went on many pilgrimage tours in and around the country with an artistic interest. Brunner along with her mother Elizabeth Sass came to India in the year 1930 in search of new path in life and became respected figures in Indian artistic life with their subjects of work concentric on the life and spirit of India. In India they were received by Ravindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan and by several Maharajas and other prominent Indian spokesmen in other parts of country.

In the time they spend in India they also painted many paintings with Buddhist themes. Apart from this, throughout their travel together; they painted landscapes, mountains, forests, monuments and people along with major Indian personalities.