Stephen Conroy (born 1964, Scotland) is renowned painter of the generation which revived figuration in the 1980s. His paintings and prints are usually portraits or self-portraits, though not always explicitly so. His work, in paint and in print, is inspired by Old Masters such as Caravaggio, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Poussin and Manet, and in the 20th century, Francis Bacon. This print, which was never editioned, is a study for Conroy's large painting, 'Born into Darkness', 1991.