Alice De Boton
1960s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Masonite, Oil
People Also Browsed
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Archival Paper
Early 20th Century Belgian Decorative Art
Canvas, Wood
Early 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Wood, Oil
20th Century Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Wax Crayon, Acrylic, Canvas, Oil Crayon
Early 19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Board, Oil
1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Crayon
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Oil Pastel, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
19th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Watercolor
Marjorie Hyman for sale on 1stDibs
Marjorie Hyman, circa 1970s, was a professional artist, published poet and played piano at the Officers Club during World War II. She studied theater at Stanford University and later performed professional monologues in the Bay Area. Hyman was also a member of the Peninsula Art Association. She was a student of Alice de Boton. Marjorie has exhibited at Society of Western Artists, California and at de Young Museum at San Francisco. She was listed in The Fine Art Catalogue under Artists of Central and Northern California. Marjorie Hyman passed away in Burlingame, California in 2016.
(Biography provided by Robert Azensky Fine Art)
Finding the Right portrait-paintings for You
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.