Portrait Paintings
2
to
7
65
28
20
18
64
23
10
11
32
16
18
22
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
30
9
6
5
4
3
2
1
1
79
55
34
25
20
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
1
4
10
84
2
1
3
1
1
20
3
3
3
2
89
60
56
55
48
Portrait Paintings For Sale
Color: Gold
Color: Green
Zumbi dos Palmares
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their
simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.”
Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...
Category
2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Oil Painting On Canvas Belle Epoque Art Nouveau
Located in Gavere, BE
"Large Oil Painting On Canvas Belle époque Art Nouveau With Frame"
Georges Redon (1869-1943) is a famous French painter, draftsman, caricaturist, poster designer and engraver.
Belle ...
Category
1890s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Oil Painting On Canvas Belle Epoque Art Nouveau
Located in Gavere, BE
Georges Redon (1869-1943) is a famous French painter, draftsman, caricaturist, poster designer and engraver.
Art Nouveau portrait oil on canvas mounted on panel "The elegant with the...
Category
1890s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Oil On Canvas portrait Elisabeth de Fontenay Circle of Largilliere With Frame
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas From The Eighteenth Century Entourage De Largilliere With Frame"
18th Century French School, Surroundings of Nicolas de Largilliere
Presumed portraits of Louise Elisa...
Category
1740s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Porcelain Portrait "Duchess of Devonshire" Georgiana Cavendish in Bronze Frame
Located in Jacksonville, FL
A very good quality early 19th Century Austrian, Vienna style convex porcelain plaque depicting a hand painted portrait of the "Duchess of Devonshire." Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess o...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Bronze
Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Young Lady 19th century
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Young Lady 19th century
dated and signed 1874 ( Portrait of the artist's daughter )
Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, originally Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger...
Category
1870s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
St. Moses the Black, aka Abba Moses the Robber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Greenfield's versions are rendered in the Byzantine style of their art historical predecessors, with the black Virgin Mother and Baby Jesus as the central focus within circular compositions, or tondos. These tondos float amongst abstract discs, set within fields of lustrous, gold leaf. The Madonnas predominate before a variety of backgrounds, which were traditionally innocuous. Greenfield, however, presents these backdrops as various revenge fantasies, where white supremacists are cast in the role of victims, suffering the fates...
Category
2010s Medieval Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Official Like A Referee Whistle - Original Sports Artwork Soccer Painting
By Danny Brown
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danny Brown’s artworks allocate an intrinsic connection between himself and the diverse communities occupying Los Angeles. Brown combines art history, streetwear trends, and pop art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Canvas
Untitled (Field)
Located in New York, NY
Marc Andre
Untitled (field)
2022
Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Marc Andre meditates on the moments we step out of our comfort zone. Infused with neo-expressionist influences and demonstrating a figurative approach akin to the portraits and sculptures of Benin infused with a refreshing wave of energy. By channeling a playful flirtation with mark-making, Andre shows us that childhood creativity is “as pure as it gets”.
Andre was born in Toulouse, France and spent much of his childhood traveling the world and frequenting museums with his mother, primarily visiting exhibitions featuring Pan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil Crayon
Eli
Located in Mokena, IL
Eli, 11.5 x 13.5 inches. Oil on panel with carved and gilded frame. Painting by artist Justas Varpucanskis. 21st century contemporary artwork that employs techniques, philosophy and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lenny
By Wencke Uhl
Located in Bonn, NW
original painting; acrylic and paper on high quality canvas stretcher. 23.6x31.5". The sides are painted and it's ready to hang (unframed).
Based on a great shot of Lenny Kravitz
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Addiosnjones artwork, Neon Noir pop painting
Located in Delaware , OH
Addiosnjones artwork, Neon Noir pop painting
A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T:
Introducing the iconic Andy Warhol style print with neon colors and screen p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Look See
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Sena Tues is a talented artist who creates thought-provoking artworks that capture the essence of modern life. One of her latest works, "Look See", features ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pop Painting, Yellow Pop Painting, Portrait Artwork-Pop Chic
Located in Delaware , OH
Pop Painting, Yellow Pop Painting, Portrait Artwork-Pop Chic
A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T:
Introducing the iconic Andy Warhol style print with neo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Denied Andy Warhol Photo Booth Self Portrait Green Painting by Charles Lutz
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Denied Warhol Green Self Portrait Photo Booth Painting by Charles Lutz
Silkscreen and acrylic on linen with Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authent...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
First landing
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The boy planted seedlings with his mother for the first time
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Huge 1960s French Signed Oil - Portrait of Fashionable Woman Emerald Green Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's, signed with monogram
Title: Portrait of a fashionable lady in an emerald green dress.
Medium: oil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Green Abe
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Green Abe
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Framed Dimensions: 23" x 19"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition: ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Shield - unique piece by Paula Craioveanu - Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Shield".
This painting was inspired by ancient masks and statues and it's part of my Neo-Mythology series.
Painted with acrylic, (+gesso and gold l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Jungle Sol Sisters II" mixed media portrait of women, flowers, blue background
Located in Edgartown, MA
Lily Sol’s current work “Flower Goddess” is a symbol of blooming into her true self and honoring the divine femine energy within all of us. Through her paintings she is able to celebrate the fierce women in her life and shine light on the diverse and unique beauty of cultures around the world. She loves exploring different mediums in her art journal, playing with collage, acrylic paints, watercolors, and pressed blooms. While painting she tries to stay in an intuitive mindset and allow her works to transform naturally—always seeking the harmony between staying loose yet in control, yin & yang of life. Bright colors, a playlist she can dance...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Acuarela. Mixed media on wood panel painting. Beautiful head's woman and flowers
Located in Segovia, ES
Acuarela.
Measurements in centimeters: 122 x 48 x 0.5 cm. // In inches: 48.03 x 18.9 x 0.2 "
Framed: 144 x 70 x 4.5 cm. // In inches: 56.69 ...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
David - contemporary portrait, mixed media painting, biblical figure, Italian
By Marco Araldi
Located in London, GB
Marco’s background is in engineering and architecture, making him familiar with mathematical design and the awareness of geometry.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Figurative Expressionist Bold Pop Art Oil Painting Self Portrait Carlo Pittore
By Carlo Pittore
Located in Surfside, FL
Carlo Pittore
Oil on canvas, 1984,
Self Portrait, initialed and dated lower left,
slat framed, 21"sqr (frame) 20 X 20 canvas.
Provenance: The Private Collection of Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason
Carlo Pittore (1943 – 2005) born Charles J. Stanley was an American painter, educator, art activist, and publisher, whose primary study, teaching and body of work was figurative art and portrait painting. He was a pioneer in the Mail Art movement, he corresponded with such mail art luminaries as Buster Cleveland and Ray Johnson. Pittore is noted for opening the first independent art gallery in the East Village, Manhattan. In 1987, Pittore founded "The Academy of Carlo Pittore" in Bowdoinham, Maine.
Pittore (née Charles Stanley) was born to Stanford and Estelle Stanley in Queens, New York. He grew up on Long Island, in Port Washington, New York with his sister Marion and brother Elliott. Pittore graduated from Port Washington High School (1961), where he was active in the political and debating scenes. He then went on to graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (1966), and post graduate from the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1978).
Pittore changed his name in the 1970s while studying abroad in Rome, Italy. The children nicknamed him "Carlo Pittore", (”Charles the Painter"). From there he went on to study at the Chelsea College of Arts in London.
In 1978, Pittore received the Max Beckmann Scholarship in Advanced Painting. It allowed him to begin studying with American feminist painter Joan Semmel at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. He also studied with visual portrait artist Alice Neel. After which, he taught art at the New York Cultural Foundation.
In the 1970s, Pittore and his close friend Bern Porter...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boy Waiting, Portrait of a Young Man by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Boy Waiting" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of a young man with somber expression, sitting on a chair. This work features a second environmental portrait on verso. The painting is 41.75" x 35.75" in size and is signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Apollo & Daphne - Greek Mythology: Gilding, Ink and Acrylic on Canvas
By Marco Araldi
Located in London, GB
With a background in engineering and architecture, Marco Araldi is demonstrably comfortable with both mathematical design and geometry. Naturally drawn t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Green
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia.
In his s...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Green Dario Agrimi Hyperrealism Children Walking
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia.
In his s...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Moses -contemporary geometric portrait, Biblical character, mixed media painting
By Marco Araldi
Located in London, GB
Marco’s background is in engineering and architecture, making him familiar with mathematical design and the awareness of geometry.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Califia
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Califia (c. 1510) is the mythical Black warrior Queen and inspiring character in Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo’s 16th century epic poem, Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandian). In Montalvo’s tale, Queen Califia rules on the fabled island of California, a utopia brimming with pearls and gold and inhabited solely by her menacing army of black Amazon women...
Category
2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
TIGER WOODS - VICTORY!
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mother and daughter by Lélia Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Mother and daughter by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Signed lower right Lélia Pissarro.
Executed in 2020
This work is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sade
Located in Nashville, TN
"Sade" is an acrylic-on-canvas painting of the Nigerian-born British singer/songwriter Sade Adu by Nashville artist James Threalkill. People being his prima...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Green Lantern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Symbolically representing the ordeals of the young man and the necessity for a sharp vision to see through the hurdles.
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Mother Nature - Painting by Salvatore Petrucino - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
Mother Nature is an original acrylic painting realized by the Italian artist Salvatore Petrucino in 2016.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Technique, dimensions, and date are writt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cleopatra, Mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony by Lélia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Cleopatra, Mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Signed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Fox
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas
28 × 22 in
71.1 × 55.9 cm
This is a unique work.
This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Provenance: Owned by artist
Free Shipping in US and Europe [Standard...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Playing the Harmonica, Post Cover
By Eugene Iverd
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 6, 1934
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Girl Child and Her Companion 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
'Meme Money 007: Green Goochi, ' by XVALA, Mixed Media Painting
By XVALA
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this mixed media 24"x24" painting, 'Meme Money 007: Green Goochi,' by XVALA, the artist colorfully plays with the 'Gucci' brand in tandem with the childhood cartoon series, SpongeBob. SpongeBob, as a green 'Goochi Sponge,' takes center stage with a green letter pattern on the canvas background. The work is a screen print with additional painting and iridescent oil stick by the artist with predominant colors of green and gold.
XVALA's art illuminates the hidden fallout spawned from our high tech Internet age. His 'Fear Google' campaign exposed the decay of privacy and No Delete used hacked nude celebrity photos to highlight loss of control over personal information. The artist has worked with trash from the homes of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and others, as well as dirt from the graves of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. The dirt appears in the New World Order collection as part of a pyramidal, 3D printed, living ant farm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Screen, Oil, Mixed Media
Judith & Donald
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is my adaptation of Gustav Klimt’s "Judith and the Head of Holofernes.” Klimt’s painting depicts the biblical character of Judit...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Balthazar
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Solitude of Guadeloupe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of hi...
Category
2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Balthazar
Located in Santa Monica, CA
One of the three biblical ‘magi’ or ‘wise men,’ King Balthazar gave the highly prized gift of liquid myrrh to Jesus upon his birth. Balthazar was an African King...
Category
2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Zumbi dos Palmares
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Solitude of Guadalupe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pop Art Style Portrait of Frida Kahlo
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil and acrylic portrait of Frida Kahlo by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions are 60x60. It is unframed. A certificate of auth...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mixed Media on Woven Fabriano Portrait Painting "Lady in Blue"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
This unique artwork is created through interweaving strips of painted fabriano paper in order to create a complex composition with depth and texture. The artwork is framed and floate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Johnny Bigoudi" Vivid Colors Neue Constructivist Character Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
"Bigoudi" means "hair curler".
Artist's comment : "Artworks from the "Duels" series concerns duality between instinct, the colored background, and reason, the black tracks...
Category
2010s Constructivist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Alirio Palacios, Versiones, 2012, Mixed media on cardboard, 145 x 134 cm
Located in Miami, FL
Alirio Palacios
Versiones, 2012
Mixed media and gold leaf on cardboard (intervened by the artist)
145 x 134 cm
57 x 52.7 in.
The artwork is signed and...
Category
2010s Medieval Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Spirits Through Time VII, " Abstract Portrait Painting
By Ned Martin
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract portrait by Ned Martin is made with oil paint on panel. Part of his Spirits Through Time series, it features a woman in profile - her face and hair are rendered realist...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
untitled
Located in Spetses, GR
Original artwork by Sofia Fotiadou, ready to hang. Signed by the artist at the bottom left corner.
Certificate of authenticity is provided by the gallery.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I Bloom, and Now Feel
Located in Denver, CO
Aixa Oliveras' "I Bloom, and Now Feel" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model wearing lace as she caresses orchids that grow f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Elements Etrusco
Located in Miami, FL
A. Laurenti has been exhibiting since 1984 universal, visionary and contemporary paintings.
His images bring back to us through his colors, landscapes and personalities that have exi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bit Franklin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
NOTE: This split portrait artwork is part of a limited collection of one of a kind pieces. Please inquire as to whether this specific piece is still available. If not, artist Andrew Cotton...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bring Forth Miracles
Located in Denver, CO
Aixa Oliveras' "Bring Forth Miracles" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model in a black dress with upturned hands as Orchids a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Portrait of a Geisha
By Roland Strasser
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Roland Strasser (1895-1974)
"Japanese Geisha"
Signed lower right
Oil and gold leaf on canvas, measures: 76 x 46 cm
In fine white-wash wood frame.
...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Will Smith
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Will Smith. Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas.
About the Artist:
Jack Florczyk, known professionally as Jack Flo, is an American contemporary ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
King Sponge, Sponge Bob, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Portrait of Sponge Bob
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
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.
Read More
Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
In Christopher Spitzmiller’s New York Homes, His Love of Dogs Is on Full Display
The ceramist, designer and gentleman farmer tells us about the collection of antique dog art he has spread across a New York City apartment and a Greek Revival farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.
This Wiener Werkstätte Master Made Everything into Art
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.
A Rare Q&A with American Legend Alex Katz
On the eve of a new exhibition just north of New York City, the nonagenarian contemporary-art icon talked with ‘Introspective’ about his long and ongoing career, the development of his signature style and his rather malleable definition of realism.
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Vintage Wheel Of Fortune
Jean Baptiste Greuze
Circle Of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Donal Judd
Young Lady With Cat
Edward Francis Wells
Queen Elizabeth 2 Portrait
Tiffany Background Images
Abe Lincoln
Gentleman In Armor
Hollis Dunlap
Rubens Circle
Charles Edward Stuart
Shannon Wood Paintings
Pilgrim Portraits
Dali Travel Poster
Crime And Punishment
18th C French Lady Paintings