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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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Flora and Fauna, Portrait, Surrealism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Anatoly Borisovich Tarabanov Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2005 Style: Portrait & Surrealism Title: Flora and Fau...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sandy"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Robert Henri (1865 - 1929). Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865. At the ...
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1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Making Firends", Galina Pshenitsina, Post-War, Figurative, Oil/Canvas, 37x44in.
Located in Dallas, TX
Galina Vasilevna Pshenitsina was born in 1940 in the town of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She began her studies at the Art School named after Johanson in St. Petersburg. In 1959, she...
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Early 2000s Post-War Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Auguste Renoir"s last student: portrait of Renoir"s son painting
Located in Norwich, GB
If something about this painting seems familiar, it is for good reason! Dating from circa 1905-10, it is a work by Lucien Boulier (1882-1963), who was effectively Renoir's last stude...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Circles of Life" African woman wearing blue circle earrings and black robe
Located in Edgartown, MA
"As an African-American artist in today’s world, I embody the vast differences found in our collective backgrounds. I view them as cultural assets. We are always self discovering and these self discoveries take us in surprising directions. We must gain strength from what we learn from each other as well as listen to that persistent, ever present, intuitive self. The connection of one’s own rich heritage and person growth will travel into the inevitable and critical connection between African Americans and Africa. These connections are rich and very important. They Exist! My work, I hope, will serve as a creative connection between the African diaspora and western culture. It is this connection that cause my creative forces to react." Janice Frame...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Resin, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

Les Pierrots by André Braunecker - Oil on paper 50x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil paint on paper with glass and frame. Signed and certified by the artist.
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1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The Battle of Scheveningen, 10th August 1653, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Battle of Scheveningen, 10th August 1653, 17th Century Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten (1622-1666) Huge 17th Century Dutch Old Master scene of The Battle of...
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17th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French painting portrait Bearded italian man oil canvas Second half 18th century
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the second half of the 18th century Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm (57 x 49 cm with the frame) Very beautiful frame in gilded wood from the Louix XVI period with decoratio...
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Late 18th Century French School Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait Painting Oil on Canvas by Joseph Badger
Located in Rome, IT
Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. This amazing painting depicting a young boy with a bi...
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18th Century Academic Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Nest IV, " Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This acrylic painting, titled "Nest IV," is an original creation by Ifeoluwa Alade, an artist based in Nigeria. The handmade piece showcases a Nigerian female model adorned with rose...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Early 20th Century Oil - Edwardian Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A beautiful, restrained portrait of a young Edwardian woman in a deep red velvet dress with lace collar. The woman has a round, rosy face with big brow...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

A Guardian Angel and a Child
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York; by whom gifted in 1880 to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (80.3.673); deaccessioned and sold: Christie’s, New York, 12 June 19...
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Terracotta, Gesso

Victory by abandonment Julien Wolf Contemporary art painting expressionnist
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Hand-signed on the back by the artist “At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tried to captur...
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Where Are You ?", with Bridge Pyramid Shape & the Mona Lisa Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
"Where are you?", at a place where there are an arched bridge, a pyramid-shaped glass building and a portrait of the Mona Lisa. The lady in the painting asks or is asked in the phone...
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2010s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Italian Florentine Figurative Expressionism Male Portrait acrylic on canvas 21st
Located in Florence, IT
The painting is signed and dated: L. NOCENTINI 010. The style of Ladislao Nocentini can be defined as a sort of Figurative Expressionism: his ...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

'Ginette', French Art Deco Portrait
Located in Cotignac, FR
French oil on canvas portrait of a young beauty by Charles Alexandre René Picart Le Doux. Signed and dated bottom right. There is an exhibition label with number and title 'Ginette' ...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sagittarius" zodiac, astrology sign, myth, centaur, bright figurative painting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Sagittarius" (2017) by Clarence Rich Acrylic on canvas Zodiac sign, astrology art, figurative centaur image Vertical orientation, measures 36" H x 24...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

American artist Portrait German lady 19th century Oil painting by J. Eichholtz
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ceremonial Portrait of Noble German Lady - amazing discovery of hidden monogram "J.E. 1826" disclosing Great American portraitist Jacob Eichholtz (17...
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1820s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Oil

"Lady with White Linen Hat"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985). An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th century British portrait of Sir Charles Dickens seated in an interior
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 19th-century portrait of Sir Charles Dickens. The original painting is in the National Gallery in London and I'm sure this piece would have been painted by a fan of the author who was also a very good artist as this piece is a very good copy of the original painting. There was a great fashion to paint copies of famous paintings during the 19th century and most of the world's most famous paintings have been copied many times. Often the artist who does the copy is very talented but usually anonymous With this piece, it's the only way to own an antique copy...
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1870s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

One Queen (2) Silver, digitally produced art, affordable art, original art
Located in Deddington, GB
'One Queen (2) Silver' is an Original on Canvas by Agent. ’One Queen (2) Silver’ depicts silhouette of the Queen. As snipped from the pure sliver background, Agent X creates the illu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Large Signed Surreal Nude Male Portrait Symbolist Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist landscape with male figures. Really well painted and a very interesting composition. Impressive giltwood frame as well! Signed and dated lower ri...
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1990s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a Woman with Red Hair on a Green Background in Acrylic
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman with Brown Hair on a Red Background in Acrylic on Artist's Board Portrait of a woman in the style of Amedeo Modigliani by an unknown artist (20th century). The w...
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Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Illustration Board

Italian genre portrait Middle Eastern beauty at a well 19th century oil painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Bedouin girl posing for the painter in late sunlight (sunset). Was painted by Cavaliero Antonio Scognamiglio ca. 1870-1880, most likely in Cairo as similar work of smaller size was i...
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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Invisible Women Biombo II
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Wood, Acrylic

Portrait Of The Guinness Sisters, dated 1894
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of The Guinness Sisters, dated 1894 circle of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Signed with a rose symbol Large 19th Century Irish portrait of The Guinness Sister...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Late 17th French Portrait of a gentleman, workshop of N. de Largilliere, Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a gentleman, workshop of Nicolas de Largilliere, circa 1690, Paris Sublime portrait of a gentleman with a palette of rich and vivid colors. He is depicted half-length, turned three-quarters, face to face. Soft and kind expression, the vivacity of the look, its calm serenity, grant an intense presence to the model. Wearing a loose wig of curly, powdered hair, this flow of vaporous curls cascades over his shoulder and enhances his face with regular features, illuminated by intense lighting and delicately nuanced by the gray tones of his emerging beard. Dressed in a shirt whose white lace collar can be seen, he wears a lapis blue velvet jacket with gold thread stripes and a moire silk lapel. Wrapped in a large red velvet coat, embroidered with silver thread, lined with brocaded yellow silk, held on his chest by a stapled leather strap. A delicate pink ribbon is passed through the collar of his shirt, the ends falling on the front like flying in the wind. Intense lighting concentrated on the figure plunges the background of the portrait into darkness. The dominant primary colors red and blue, chromatically opposed, are surprisingly harmonious and testify to the audacity of the artist who applies saturated colors to create a vibration of the material itself. The fabrics, the brushed velvet with ridges illuminated by generous serifs, the brocaded silk with a virtuoso brush, the lace and embroidery with a fine and precise design. A successful dazzle by the brilliance of the colors and a refined execution. French School circa 1690-1695 Workshop of Nicolas de Largillière (Paris, 1656-1746) Oil on canvas in oval shape H. 31.50 in, w. 24.40 in Carved and giltwood orignal frame with flower bouquets Framed dimensions: h. 41.73 in, w. 35.03 in Our work painted in the studio of Nicolas de Largillière, is marked by a learned eclecticism characteristic of this Parisian master. Inspired by the Antwerp Baroque masters Rubens and Van Dyck, the painter brings a spectacular dimension and seeks through the portrait to impress the viewer with its aesthetic and chromatic strength alone. We find his colors and this excution of baroque tradition in several portraits of this period, such as: Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1685, Chateau de Parentignat portrait of a gentleman, circa 1690, Atlanta Museum of Fine Arts portrait of a gentleman, Bemberg Foundation, Toulouse portrait of the Lord of Noirmont, National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, Portugal Nicolas de Largilliere, born October 2, 1656 in Paris, where he died March 20, 1746, is a French painter. He is one of the most famous portrait painters of the 17th and 18th centuries. Nicolas de Largillière's long career spanned the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, during which he established himself as a leading portrait painter. His female effigies...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Declined Expectation
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Sometimes as individuals, our expectations are not met or sometimes disorganized when we find ourselves in a confusing situation that has to do with going on a date. We are always anxious about going on a date we are already thrilled about and can't wait to explore that beautiful moment but unexpectedly our expectation was declined due to certain turn-off symbols or what we do dislike experiencing, but that shouldn't end up trying to overcome the unexpected to achieve the expected and aim of dating and love life. Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery) About Artist Joshua Salami...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th century Painting by Albert Ritzberger, Portrait of a Woman in a robe, garb.
Located in Berlin, DE
19th century painting by Albert Ritzberger, portrait of a woman in a robe. Signed and dated lower left. Painting has been restored in one place. Dimensions including frame. This is a direct copy after a painting by Angelika Kauffmann...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Young Piegan Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Nancy Mclaughlin Powell – American (1932-1985) Title: Young Piegan Woman Year: 1958 Medium: Pastel on paper Sight size: 15.5 x 11.5 inches wit...
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1950s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Healer Also Needs Healing II
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Healer Also Needs Healing" is an evocative portrait that invites viewers to explore the inner world of the subject. The woman depicted exudes a sense of strength and serenity, her e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Genre scene Young street musician Early 20th century Austrian masterwork Framed
By Eduard Ansen-Hofmann (1862-1955)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed “E. Hofmann 24.IX 33” lower right. A touching family scene with a young street musician with flute and his caring sister. A gifted young musician earns money by playing the fl...
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Early 20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Girl with watermelons
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
“For me, female beauty means harmony. This is what makes you touch the divine essence of things. Beauty is a gift. Harmony is when nothing can be added or taken away to make somethin...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Jesus of Nazareth Original Oil Portrait 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Jesus of Nazareth Original Oil Portrait 20th Century Framed oil portrait Original oil on panel Dimensions 8.5" wide x 8.5" high The frame mea...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

A Little Bit Of Magic - Mickey mouse painting
Located in OIA, ES
"A Little Bit of Magic" is an expressionist portrait of Mickey Mouse, the beloved Disney character. When you gaze upon the painting, you can't help but be amazed by the immense numbe...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

French Genre Scene in Parisian park 19th Century Oil painting
By Emile Tabary
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed by Émile Tabary. Lively scene in in a parisian park, pictured moment of city life of the late 19th century. In this painting, some irony and humor are very subtly felt. One of...
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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Mid 19th Century Family Oil Portrait C.1840
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 19th Century Family Oil Portrait C.1840 Outstanding oil portrait of a young family revealing a painting of the matriarch of the family, possibly a mourning portrait. Original o...
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Mid-19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Italian Tuscany Figurative Expressionism Male Nude ink on paper 20st
Located in Florence, IT
The painting is signed and dated: L. NOCENTINI 91. The style of Ladislao Nocentini can be defined as a sort of Figurative Expressionism: his i...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Ink, Paper

Invisible Women Rosa
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Europe. This combination allows her to have the best of three worlds; it brings together the creativity and passion that her paintings demand. "I invest time in my work. You must look at paintings on different days, with different eyes. There is a need to go back to it again and again.” Born to a family of artists, she grew up surrounded by drawings, tapestries, and paintings that awakened a special sentiment that over time matured into her work. A graphic designer first and painter by evolution, in 2018 she decided to make the leap into becoming a full-time artist. Nothing has deterred her since. After traveling the world and bringing up four children who are almost living their own lives, the artist feels the need to empower the role of women inspired by her own journey. “Invisible Women” is a tribute to each and every woman that fights from anonymous positions, in everyday jobs and everyday lives, to improve their family, their society, their world. Some of her pieces are part of the personal art collections of different CEOs of fortune 100 companies. “Invisible Women” is part of a recent purchase...
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Stretcher Bars, Canvas, Acrylic

Nude with Lace, Pastel Study Painting by Pio Santini
Located in Atlanta, GA
This charming pastel painting on paper was designed by Pio Santini (1908-1986) and named: nude with lace. The artist's signature, Santini, can be found in the bottom left corner of the artwork. Lovely romantic composition with a nude young lady kneeling and holding a piece of white lace. Flamboyant magenta red drape background. The painting remains in its original frame, which features delicately carved wood, a gesso finish, an off-white wood liner, and glass protection. The piece is in good condition but has a dark stain and some small chips on the edges of the original wood frame. Measurements: With frame: 22.75 in. wide (58 cm) x 26 in. high (66 cm) Opening view: 14.50 in. wide (36.5 cm) x 17.75 in. (45 cm). Artist Biography: Pio Santini (1908-1986) Pio Santini was born on April 17, 1908, close to Rome, in Tivoli, Italy. He showed a precocious and pronounced artistic taste and gifts, to begin with, drawing and painting. From his childhood drawings, as early as 5 or 6 years old, he was gifted and had a technique above the average. As early as 1933, Pio Santini moved to Paris, in the Montparnasse district, also known as The Artists Area, where he settled in his first Parisian studio. He is recognized as a member of the Academy of Paris, a significant art movement in the first half of the 20th century, alongside Amedeo Modigliani and other Italian artists. While attending the classes of the Estienne School for further training in plastic art, Pio Santini started to attract attention in various Parisian Salons (particularly the Winter Salon, the Independents Salon, and the French Artists Salon) and to find a place in the Parisian universe of painting, as is shown in the press of the time. The Second World War, which pitted his country of birth against his adopted nation, created conflicting emotions in him. During this time, the concept of a united and reconciled Europe took root in his mind. In a way, he played a part in the resuming cultural exchanges between France and Italy by founding the association The Romans in Paris after the war, and especially by creating and animating the Villa D’Este Prize for about ten years, rewarding each year a French artist or writer by offering, a one month stay at the Villa, in Tivoli. Later, the Montparnasse Prize would reward Italian artists in Paris, in the same way. While devoting himself to painting, he worked as an art illustrator for edition and press and left us a rich but unrecognized work from this period. In the early 1960s, Pio Santini decided, imperiously and bravely, to live on his painting. A member of the Society of Independent Artists since 1934, he then actively participated in numerous collective exhibitions in France and abroad. He regularly exhibited in Parisian Salons, most of which he was a member: the Independents Salon, the Autumn Salon, the Winter Salon, the National Salon of the Fine Arts, and the Comparison Salon. A regular participant in the prestigious Salon des Artistes Français, he was often rewarded: Great Price of the Salon in 1970, then in 1974, a gold medal in 1971, and Prize-winner of the Ernest Marché Prize in 1974. Pio Santini lived his last years in his house in Garches, near Paris. He worked there until the last moment and died of illness at the age of 78. Keeping himself a part of the avant-garde of contemporary art, Pio Santini developed a personal work of formal coherence very steadily. He is a two-time artist, one of the beginnings of his career, the Thirties, and the other one, his rebirth, the Sixties, when the artist can again devote himself to painting. Between these two periods, the Second World War badly hit the pictorial growth of Pio Santini. However, everything had started under the best auspices for the young painter whose desire to devote himself to painting is evident in his self-portrait of 1928 as a manifesto. In the 1930s, following the revolutions of cubism, abstraction, and surrealism, figurative and sensual...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Board

Free Spirit- 21st Century Contemporary Portrait Painting of a young girl
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Erik van Elven Free Spirit 70 x 50 cm Oil on dibond ( panel ) Framed 78 x 58 cm ( This frame is included in the price ) Erik van Elven did build a wonderful career as an artist in H...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Hungarian Rabbi Large Judaica Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
20th century Jewish Rabbi Portrait, Judaica Oil Painting
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20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Religious painting 17th 18th VIGNON Caravaggio follower Oil canvas Saint Gregory
Located in PARIS, FR
Claude VIGNON (After) Tours, 1593 – Paris, 1670 Oil on canvas 60 x 45 cm (80 x 65 cm with the frame) Very good condition In the 17th century the french...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Native American Elder in oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Native American Elder in oil on Artist's Board Stately portrait of an elderly man by Hoyt Yeatman II (Jr) (American, 1926-2019). Shown against a dark background, the man is wearing a blue tunic, red headband...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Illustration Board

Marilyn as Rose Weston, Digital Prints, Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Located in Deddington, GB
Agent X has created a bright and brilliant mash-up of iconic Pop Art aesthetics and digital collage techniques. Agent X intercuts Pop art imagery with panels of poppy pattern, colour...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Digital

To be at home and drink coffee by Ukranian Artist Dasha Pogodina
Located in Sempach, LU
ABOUT THE ARTWORK The painting titled "To be at home and drink coffee" is an intimate portrayal of solace and self-reflection. The subject, a figure with an introspective gaze, is c...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Rabbi in Study
By Avraham Goldberg
Located in Surfside, FL
Avraham Goldberg, Painter. b. 1906, Poland. Immigrated to Eretz Israel 1919. Died in Tel Aviv, 1980. Studies: Art Academy, New York. Lived in Paris and Tel Aviv. Goldberg had thre...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Englischer Windhund, Art Deco Gouache Portrait on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An early 20th Century Art Deco gouache portrait of a gentleman in hunting attire with his dog, by P Giubbini. The work is signed bottom right, titled top left 'Englischer Windhund' and presented in a plain period wood frame under glass. A wonderful character portrait of a man preparing to go out with his hound dog, an Englischer Windhund or whippet. He is nonchalantly doing up the buttons on his gloves, stick under his arm. Wearing breeches, hunting coat...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

A portrait - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
KATARZYNA SZYDLOWSKA (born in 1969) Katarzyna Szydlowska studied at the European Academy of Arts under prof. Jerzy Duda Gracz, Antoni Fa?at and Franciszek Starowieyski. She received ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nina Reclining with Guitar - original female realist still life portraiture oil
Located in London, Chelsea
Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a composition of portraiture and a still life arrangement presented in an interior scene. The artist applies traditional realist paint work to an environment which references modern subject matter. Rendering directly from life, Conklin imparts an original artwork that is imbued with narrative and character. This piece is painted in oils on panel, hand signed by the artist and ready to be displayed. Andrew S. Conklin, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is a visual artist, painter and draftsman. He studied painting and design at Chicago’s American Academy of Art and painting and printmaking at the National Academy of Design School in New York City. Conklin received additional instruction from portraitist Aaron Shikler and painter and illustrator David Levine. He holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. Conklin’s figurative paintings have been exhibited throughout the USA and have won him a number of major awards. He has shown work at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in NYC, The Terra Museum of American Art, Fairfield University, and the National Academy of Design, where he received a Julius Hallgarten Prize. A three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Conklin has also won a John F. and Anna Lee Stacey...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Home Working
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Italian Tuscany Figurative Expressionism Female Nude ink on paper 20st
Located in Florence, IT
The painting is signed and dated: L. NOCENTINI 91. The style of Ladislao Nocentini can be defined as a sort of Figurative Expressionism: his i...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Ink, Paper

Metal fan (Green)
Located in Oslo, 03
Oil on masonite painting
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th century portrait of a Great Dane dog in an interior, signed and dated 1847
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a large dog (possibly a Great Dane) standing in an interior with finely detailed wood panelling and red carpet beside a sumptuous emerald green curtain held with green si...
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19th Century English School Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Casimir Vandendaele, 1818 – 1880, Portrait of a Gentleman, Signed and Dated 1843
Located in Bruges, BE
Vandendaele Casimir Deinze 1818 – 1880 Ghent Belgian Painter Portrait of a Gentleman Signature: Signed bottom left and dated 1843 Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: Image size 23 x 19...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"A Touch Of Intimacy" Nude Woman 48"x48" Oil On Canvas by Betsy Podlach
Located in Carmel, CA
Betsy - 'A Touch Of Intimacy' - 2023 A Touch of Intimacy" is an evocative painting that captures a moment of tenderness and connection between two lovers. The nude woman's confiden...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, 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.

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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