Tina Spratt
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary More Art
Panel, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Gold Leaf
Antique 18th Century French Baroque Drawings
Wood, Paste
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Antique Mid-18th Century French Paintings
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Vintage 1910s French Belle Époque Paintings
Wood, Beech
2010s Chinese Books
Paper
1980s Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Vintage 1920s British Sporting Art Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Contemporary Art
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Antique Mid-18th Century English Sporting Art Prints
Paper, Wood
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Prints
Linocut
Early 1900s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Paintings
Glass, Crayon, Paper, Giltwood, Canvas
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sheffield and Silverplate
Silver
Recent Sales
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Linen, Oil
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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.