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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Antoine Calbet (1860-1942) Portrait of a Woman Signed and Dated 1896
Located in Pistoia, IT
Antoine Calbet (1860-1942), portrait of a lady, oil on canvas signed and dated 1896.
Originally from Engayrac in Lot-et-Garonne, Antoine Calbet began forging impeccable technique a...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tranquility
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
My Hair and I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Penitent Saint Peter, 17th Century attributed to Donato Creti (1671-1749)
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Penitent Saint Peter, 17th Century
attributed to Donato Creti (1671-1749)
Large circa 1700 Italian Rococo portrait of the Penitent Saint Peter, oil on canvas attributed to Dona...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Undone, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Undone" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto portrait.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couronne de Marguerite - French Belle Epoque Portrait Oil Painting Paris Beauty
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘La Couronne de Marguerite’ by Édouard-Louis-Lucien Cabane (1857-1942).
The painting – which depicts a young French beauty wearing a crown of daisies – is signed by the artist and ...
Category
1910s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guinevere - 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Oil Painting of King Arthur Queen Legend
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Guinevere’ by Norman Prescott-Davies R.B.A, R.C.A. (1861-1915). The painting – which depicts an English mediaeval portrait of Queen Guinevere at Amesbury Priory contemplating her lo...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady with Hat and Fan - Marie-Antoinette Style in 1783
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Félix-Henri Giacomotti (1828-1909)
Portrait of a Lady - Marie-Antoinette fashion in 1783.
Signed low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 92,5 X 73,5 cm
Dim Oval view : 86 ...
Category
1880s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Belle Epoque Beauty 19th Century Portrait Oil Painting French Flower Girl
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Young Beauty holding a Red Rose’ by Étienne Adolphe Piot (1831-1910). The painting is signed by the artist and hangs in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame.
Academy Fine Paintings...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Othello & Desdemona - 19th Century Oil Painting of Shakespeare Play Venice Italy
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Othello recounting his adventures to Desdemona and Brabantio’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904).
The painting – which depicts Shakespeare’s Venetian general, his lover D...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of A Girl & Toy Bear, dated 1926 by RENE MARIE JOLY DE BEYNAC
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of A Girl & Toy Bear, dated 1926
by RENE MARIE JOLY DE BEYNAC (1876-1978)
Large 1926 French portrait of a young girl and her teddy bear, oil on canvas by Rene Marie Joly ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
On the Seventh Day, Italian Renaissance Style Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Anthony Ackrill’s classical training from the Florence Academy of Art where he was a professor of anatomy is evident in this beautiful interpretation of the creation story. One could...
Category
2010s Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sun Shall Rise Again
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Enchantress - 19th Century Belle Epoque Portrait Oil Painting French Beauty
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Enchantress’ by Nathaniel Sichel (1843-1907). This large fine 19th century oil on canvas, depicting a dark-haired beauty wearing a crown of holly, is signed by the artist and ha...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ignaz Stern (1679-1748) Portrait of a Lady
Located in Pistoia, IT
Ignatius Stern, "Portrait of a Lady at the Toilet," oil on canvas, first half of the 18th century.
Ignazio Stern (or Ignaz Stern and in Italian Ignazio Stella) born in Mauerkirchen ...
Category
1720s Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th century Allegory of the four Elements - Frans Francken the Younger Flemish
Located in Antwerp, BE
Very fine 17th century Flemish old master "Allegory of the four elements" attributed to Frans Francken the Younger
The figures are the Nereid Amphitrite, holding a coral and represe...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Unbound-original figurative hyperrealistic waterscape painting-contemporary art
By Abi Whitlock
Located in London, Chelsea
"Unbound" by Abi Whitlock embodies a profound exploration of freedom and liberation, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the boundless expanse of the aquatic realm. In this acr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Stately portrait of Franklin Atwood Park by Arthur Trevethin Nowell (British, 1862-1940). Park is sitting for a classical por...
Category
1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Reading - original figurative abstract female form painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Reading a Book" by Irina Yermolova captures the essence of pondering and wonderment through the graceful depiction of a woman laid horizontally in a classic life drawing position, h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Bethy at 4, Elizabeth Wallen, Portrait of a little Girl with a Doll
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Merton Grenhagen (American, 1878-1941)
Signed: Merton Grenhagen (Lower, Left)
" Portrait of Bethy at 4 ", 1927
(Study of Elizabeth Wallen)
Oil on Canvas
35" x 29"
Housed in a 5"...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Identity 4
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Girl Playing with Dolls, Late 19th Century, Victorian Era Portrait of a Girl
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Will Beebe (Late 19th Century)
Signed: Will Beebe Dec 1892 (Lower, Right)
" Girl Playing with Dolls "
Oil on Canvas
36" x 30"
Housed in a 2 3/4" Ornamented Frame
Overall Size:...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge Portrait of a Lady after Modigliani, Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman
after Modigliani (see details verso)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 36 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: a few minor scuffs but over...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paul Klee Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Shoulder to Lean On
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Portrait of a Girl with a Doll, Chicago Artist, American Portraiture
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Paul Trebilcock (American, 1902 - 1981)
Signed: Paul Trebilcock (Lower, Right)
" BB " , circa 1950s
Oil on Canvas
30" x 25"
Housed in a 2 3/4" Carved Period Frame
Overall Size:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Victorian English Oil Portrait of Dapper Young Gentlemen gilt frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English artist, circa 1830
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 22 x 18 inches
canvas: 16 x 12 inches
Provenance: private collection, Dorset, England
Condition: The painting is in overall ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady Arranging Flowers - British 1940's art oil painting
By Sir Gerald Festus Kelly
Located in London, GB
This superb British portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Festus Kelly. Painted circa 1940 it is a half length portrait of an elegant lady in a light blue dress, pearls an...
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Her Favorite, 19th Century David Comba Adamson (1559-1926)
By David Comba Adamson
Located in Blackwater, GB
Her Favorite, 19th Century
David Comba Adamson (1559-1926) similar works to $14,000
Exhibited
Dundee, Dundee Fine Art Exhibition.
Large 19th Century portrait of a young Breton gir...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Margarett Sargent Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Masami Teraoka Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
On Your Tomb, They Won't Smell Nice
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
On Your Tomb, They Won't Smell Nice is an original painting by Obeka Simon. Simon created On Your Tomb, They Won't Smell Nice with Oil on a 40W by 45H inches primed canvas.
Simon Obeka...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frederick III Cranach Rohrich Paint Oil on table 19th Century Flemish Portrait
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Follower of Lucas Cranach I (Kronach, 1472 - Weimar, 1553)
Attributed to Franz Wolfgang Rohrich (Nuremberg 1787 - 1834)
Frederick III of Saxony, called the Wise (1486-1525)
Oil on ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fernand Leger Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Marsden Hartley Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Henry Moore Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Aubrey Beardsley Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Edvard Munch Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Robert Mapplethorpe - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Christo Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
Canson is a 500-year-old brand of fine art paper known for its high-quality, durable, and versatile papers for drawing, watercolor, printmaking, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
FLOWERS IN AN ANTIQUE VASE
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I've channeled the essence of timeless beauty. The blossoms, basking in their own light, are set against a serene backdrop, symbolizing life's delicate balance....
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Macabre Bar Scene - School of Charles Addams - Playboy Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Even without the punch line, Gahan Wilson's highly stylized paintings are marvelous to behold. He is one of a few artists with a unique style instantly recognized as his own. In this...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Flower lady
Located in London, GB
Anastasia Kurakina's artworks are at the Vatican Museums collection since 2017
She has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London at BP portrait award exhibition in 2017
a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Peter Robert Keil Gold Framed Painting on Canvas Signed and Dated with COA
Located in Hudson, NY
Peter Keil's textured painting on canvas. Signed and dated 1997. This one is stunning in person. Background paint is textured on the canvas. Amazing gilt frame with a textured fabric...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Woman with Jug-original cubism figurative still life painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Step into the vibrant world of Borja Guijarro's "Woman with Jug," a captivating cubist figurative still life that mesmerizes with its dynamic energy and bold colors. This original ac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique 19th century oil painting on canvas, Female Portrait , Oval Frame
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is a beautiful Antique 19-century original oil painting on canvas depicting a female portrait .
This painting is a classic portrait of a woman, set within an oval fram...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Portrait of Lady Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Impressionist artist, circa 1930
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blow Them at the Moon
Located in Denver, CO
Nerhbass’ paintings focus on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in a manner that is simu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Stillness" - Oil Painting of Nude Female Figure by Matt Talbert
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert's "Stillness" (2024) is an oil painting on linen, measuring 21 x 14 inches (53.34 x 35.56 cm). The unframed artwork features a nude female figure seated beside a window,...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Heads Together II
Located in Toronto, ON
Pita Ohiwerei has displayed a mastery of mediums, painting primarily in oils and in watercolours. In his genre paintings, Pita represents the spirit of people by capturing spaces of...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Queen- original-royal cubism figurative-portrait painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Step into regal elegance with Borja Guijarro's striking portrait, "The Queen." This original cubist masterpiece breathes new life into the iconic image of Queen Elizabeth, portraying...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dreamy Rat
By Herakut
Located in Dallas, TX
COA included
Herakut is a German artist duo comprised of Hera (Jasmin Siddiqui) and Akut (Falk Lehmann). In 2004 both artists combined their works and names to create Herakut. Their ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Cardboard, Acrylic, Spray Paint
My Lady of the Rose Portrait of Hilda, the Artist's Wife - British oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British exhibited portrait oil painting is by noted artist George Spencer Watson. The influence of Lord Frederick Leighton and the Italian Renaissance can easily be seen....
Category
1910s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Taste of Tears XV
Located in Dallas, TX
Artist COA included
Ruben Alpizar is a Cuban artist of academic training with an admirable mastery of painting technique.
Postmodern dimension in which his work enrolls is recogni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sister Break I
Located in Toronto, ON
Pita Ohiwerei has displayed a mastery of mediums, painting primarily in oils and in watercolours. In his genre paintings, Pita represents the spirit of people by capturing spaces of...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sister Break II
Located in Toronto, ON
Pita Ohiwerei has displayed a mastery of mediums, painting primarily in oils and in watercolours. In his genre paintings, Pita represents the spirit of people by capturing spaces of...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Lady Sewing in an Interior - Scottish 40s Pointilliste oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Scottish 1940's portrait oil painting is by noted artist Murray Urquhart. He has been described by one of his sons as obsessed with painting, to the exclusion of most oth...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Radiant Muse: Inspired Cubist Portrait', German School (circa 1970s)
Located in London, GB
'Radiant Muse: Inspired Cubist Portrait', oil on board, the German School (circa 1970s). A very alluring painting with warm earth tone hues both vibrant and muted. Clearly inspired b...
Category
1970s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings
An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.
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