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Portrait Paintings For Sale
'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
"Untitled" - Oil Painting of Nude Reclining Female Figure
By Rebecca Venn
Located in Denver, CO
Rebecca Venn's (US based) "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas paper that depicts a nude female model laying on her back.
This is ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Little Coquette
Located in Sint-Martens-Latem, BE
In her portraits, Paulina Archambault (1976, lives and works in Viriginia/USA) searches for the purest human emotions. To do so, she likes to reach back to her childhood. By being as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
TORN - Female Portrait / Figurative / Contemporary Realism
By David Kassan
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by David Kassan
David Kassan (b. 1977, Little Rock, AR) received his BFA from Syracuse University and continued his studies at the National Academy School of Fi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Through Storm and Fire
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pieces of Me 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Anarchy (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
Rogues Series
36" x 24" Unframed
Original Acrylic on Canvas
Hand signed by Stickman
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Let Me Stand (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
Rockstars Series
48" x 36" Unframed
Original Acrylic on Canvas
Hand signed by Stickman
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Marsia Prima Della Sfida Oil Painting on Canvas Mythology Myth In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Marsia Prima Della Sfida Oil Painting on Canvas Mythology Myth In Stock - Size 50 x 35 cm . Size with Frame 71 x 56 cm
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of Julia Copley, 18th Century circle of Sir William Beechey (1753-1859
By Sir William Beechey
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Julia Copley, 18th Century
circle of Sir William Beechey (1753-1859)
Large 18th century English School portrait of Julia Copley in her wedding dress, oil on canvas. Exc...
Category
16th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
King George III, The Royal Fox Hunt, 18th Century JOHN CORDREY (1740-1825)
By Sir William Beechey
Located in Blackwater, GB
King George III, The Royal Fox Hunt, 18th Century
JOHN CORDREY (1740-1825)
Large 18th Century view of King George III, during the Royal Fox Hunt, oil on canvas by John Cordrey. Exc...
Category
16th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bébé et hochet, 19th Century - BERTHE MORISOT (1841-1895)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Bébé et hochet, 19th Century
inscribed to BERTHE MORISOT (1841-1895)
19th Century French impressionist study of an infant holding a rattle, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and con...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Pajares 72 Vertical Emi "CROSS" original street art Big canvas painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Artwork by the Spanish artist Juan Manuel PAJARES.
street art in pure state.
PAJARES, Juan Manuel (Lleida 1957 )
Pajares was introduced to the impact of large-scale canvas painting u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Ignaz Stern (1679-1748) Ritratto di dama Olio su Tela
Located in Pistoia, IT
Ignazio Stern, "Ritratto di dama alla toilette", olio su tela, prima metà del XVIII secolo.
Ignazio Stern (o Ignaz Stern e in italiano Ignazio Stella) nato a Mauerkirchen nel 1679 e...
Category
1720s Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Teenagers, Coney Island" Outdoor Scene, Figures in Landscape, Beach, New York
Located in New York, NY
Philip Reisman
Teenagers, Coney Island
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
12 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches
When he was four years old, Reisman fled Polish pogroms with his mother and thre...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Marie Louise Bion (1858-1939) – Portrait of a Young Woman – 19thC Oil Painting
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Marie Louise Bion
(Swiss, *1858 ; † 1939)
• Portrait of a young Woman
• Oil on canvas
• Stretcher ca. 56 x 46 cm
• Original 19thC frame ca. 68 x 59 cm
• Signed and dated ‘ 7/85 ’ ...
Category
1880s Realist 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
Nude woman oil on canvas painting portrait
By Joan Palet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Nude - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 81x65 cm.
Frameless.
Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors and wood carvers.
He b...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antoine Calbet (1860-1942) Ritratto di donna Firmato e Datato 1896
Located in Pistoia, IT
Antoine Calbet (1860-1942), ritratto di dama, olio su tela firmato e datato 1896.
Originario di Engayrac nel Lot-et-Garonne, Antoine Calbet iniziò a forgiare una tecnica impeccabil...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Portrait in Black, Face Silhouette, Pink Details, Abstract, Line Drawing, White
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interactions with concepts such a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Portrait Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
My Hair and I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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 It...
Category
1910s Pre-Raphaelite 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
Female figure woman oil on canvas painting portrait
By Joan Palet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Female figure - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 27x22 cm.
Frame measures 44x39 cm.
Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
SET 2 FACES
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
2 paintings included, 30x30cm each painting
Painting made 100% by hand, with many details and corners to explore, like a true garden full of wealth and different essences.
Original...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Days End, female figure in pink and white with white dress painted from the back
Located in Toronto, ON
Days End is a contemporary take on a traditional figurative pose. Joanna Aplin’s paintings are clean and captivating. Her classically trained yet contemporary approach to color, form...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
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
Hunt Slonem "Lilac" Purple Diamond Dust Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Lilac" Purple Diamond Dust Bunny
A light purple gestured bunny on a lilac diamond dust background. Framed in a vintage frame.
Unframed: 10 x 8 inches
Framed: 14.5 x 12....
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
Scuba Girl, Florence, Italy, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Identity 4
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
French Impressionist Laid Back Lady Portrait Pencil Sketch Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Female Portrait
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
black pastel drawing on artist paper, unframed
measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide
co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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
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
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
African Woman Profile Colorful Portrait on Wooden Coin. Orange "Currency #198"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work consisting of a meticulously crafted african woman portrait...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic
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
"Evening Lawn" by Hiroshi Sato, Original Painting, Figurative Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Hiroshi Sato's "Evening Lawn" (2024) is an original oil on canvas artwork, measuring 28 x 32 inches. This vibrant painting captures a contemplative moment in a lush, evening landscap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman posing oil on canvas painting
By Joan Palet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Woman in pink- Oil on canvas
Oil measures 61x50 cm.
Frame size 67x56 cm.
Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors and w...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Margarett Sargent Portrait - Canson Paper By Beverly Bigwood
Located in Carmel, CA
About the medium, Canson's paper
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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 re...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Adèle Kindt, Portrait Of A Lady With Roses & Forget-Me-Nots
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine mid-19th-century oil painting by Belgian artist Adèle Kindt (1804-1884) depicts a lady wearing a beautiful white off-the-shoulder dress with an attached posy of pink roses ...
Category
1850s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 portrait of a woman peeling potatoes, French figurative painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique, late 1800's oil portrait of a woman peeling potatoes by French artist, Marie Petit/Marie Adrien Lavieille (1852-1911). This is a wonderful old painting by an accomplished f...
Category
1880s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait King De Zurbaran 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Spanish school
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francisco de Zurbaran (Fuente de Cantos 1598 - Madrid 1664) circle
Full-length portrait of a king
Second half of the 17th century
Oil on canvas
78 x 52 cm. - in frame 89 x 67 cm.
...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Louis de France, Grand Dauphin, 17th century French School c. 1670
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of Louis de France (1661 -1711), known as the Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Austria.
17th century French School, circa 1670
Workshop of Beaubrun Henri (1603-1677) and Charles (1604-1692)
Oil on canvas, h. 79 cm (31.10 in), l. 70 cm (27.56 in)
Louis XIV style giltwood and stucco frame
Framed: h. 107 cm (42.13 in), l. 99 cm (38.98 in).
Rare ceremonial portrait of Louis de France, aged around 10, wearing rich miniature clothes following the men's fashion of his time.
He is standing, turned in three quarters, his gaze with a solemn expression contrasts with his baby face with full cheeks which appears in the middle of thick blond curls falling on his shoulders. He wears a tobacco-colored cloth jacket which hides a shirt of which we only see the silver-embroidered sleeves. He wears the blue cord of the order of the Holy Spirit slung over his shoulder, and over it a ribbon embroidered with gold and silver. The white lace tie at her neck is enhanced by a coral ribbon bow. The same ribbon trimmings decorate his sleeves, his cane, and his sword holder...
Category
1670s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century portrait of sisters Lady Catherine and lady Jane Brydges
By James Maubert
Located in Bath, Somerset
This large double portrait depicts the sisters Lady Catherine and Lady Jane Brydges, the daughters of John Brydges, the Marquess of Carnarvon (1703-1727). They are seated on a stone ledge within in an idealised park landscape with a stone fountain on one side and sumptuous silk drapery to the other. They hold a garland of flowers by a blue silk ribbon around a lamb seated between them, a representation of romantic pastoral simplicity which was popular in English painting at the time.
Oil on canvas in a period 'Lely' panel frame with attached title plates.
Canvas: 116 x 150cm (45 1/2 x 59in)
Frame size: 137 x 172cm (54 x 67 1/2in)
Provenance: By descent through the eldest daughter Catherine to the Hoskyns branch of the family to the present day, who by marriage were also the descendants of Sir Christopher Wren.
A photograph of the painting is held in the National Portrait Gallery archive in London, dated 1955 and noted as being the property of Sir John Hoskyns, who later became a prominent politician in Thatcher's government.
Catherine (1725-1807) and Jane (1727-1776) were the daughters of John Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon, Viscount Wilton and heir apparent to the Duke of Chandos and Catherine Tollemarche, daughter of Lionel, 3rd Earl of Dysart. Their eldest daughter, Catherine, shown wearing the russet gown with a blue mantel, married firstly William Berkeley Lyon and secondly in 1753, Edwyn Francis Stanhope of Stanwell House, Middlesex, with whom she had two children, Edwyn Francis in 1754 and Catherine in 1755. Catherine Stanhope married Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 6th Baronet of Harewood Park, Herefordshire in 1774.
The younger daughter Jane Brydges, shown wearing a yellow silk gown, married her cousin, James Brydges of Pinner, but had no children.
James Maubert was born in Dublin in 1666, the son of a French Huguenot.
He was the pupil of Gaspar Smitz, the Dutch born artist who specialised in portraits, flowers and fruits, who came to England shortly after the Restoration in 1660 and lived in Dublin from the mid 1660's until his death in 1668.
The diarist George Vertue, who knew Maubert and who relied on him as a source for certain anecdotes concerning artists that appear in his Notebooks, states ‘Mr Maubert had his first instruction in drawing and painting from him in Dublin’.
Maubert worked for the Bathurst family, the Herberts and painted portraits of the Duchess of Bolton...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Portrait On Wooden Coin. Brasilian Migrant. Cyan. "Currency #207"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. This is a circular wooden acrylic painting ...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic
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 ...
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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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.
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