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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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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...
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1890s French School Portrait Paintings

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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 ...
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1890s French School Portrait Paintings

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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...
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1740s French School Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Ojulari I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Ojulari" is a series of three (3) paintings which does have a similarity of a big eyeball. Ojulari simply means "Exterior Appearance" of a person. There is one Yoruba adage that s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman in Red - Bright Colour Portrait, Women, Texture, Face
Located in London, GB
Nicolle was born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia as it was then) and grew up in Africa and then travelled the world for some years before settling in the Uk. “My love of colour stems from my ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Chalk, Acrylic

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...
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Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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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...
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1870s French School Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Scarlet LOVE & Nishikigoi Trio : Shinjuku Serenades
Located in PARIS, FR
2010, unique artwork Oil on canvas 68 9/10 × 53 1/10 in - 175 × 135 cm The artwork is signed by the Artist & stamped with the logo of the Artist's studio on verso of the canvas The ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Invisible Women Negre
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 Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Invisible Women Vermell
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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Acrylic, Laid Paper

Possibilities
Located in Nashville, TN
Suzy Smith is a Wyoming native, who has lived in Albuquerque, NM, for the past 20 years. She paints women from a female perspective, painting the uniquely American culture she grew u...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art, Basquiat, red
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Self Portrait of Jay-C JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British sense of humour, 
he addresses stereotypes of modern society and his work, both playful and profound, stimulates us to question conventional social conceptions. JAY-C is a barometer responding to the world around us. Having had his first solo exhibition in 2018, in the same year he did a collaboration with BoConcept on their iconic Imola chair...
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2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Opium Dance
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

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...
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2010s Medieval Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Contentment
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. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

Blue flowers Abstract Colorful Portrait of Girl with Flowers by German Artist
Located in Zofingen, AG
Original portrait painting by the German artist Ljubow Jung. Jung is a professional artist and clothes designer. Imitation of stained glass windows. Stained glass windows are made o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

"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...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

A Little Wine
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is inspired by everyday life .... the struggles and the chaos. In the midst of it all, We have choices to take pleasure in little things too. Painting Ships in a well-...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Omoge Awelewa (The Beauty Maiden)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Unspoken- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a boycouple
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tania Rivilis Unspoken 63 x 45 cm Oil on wood panel First we can announce some wonderful news! 3 May 2022 Tania Rivilis did win the first price of the Royal Academy of Portraitpain...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Lisa Palombo, "Big Red Flag Portrait #5" Secretariat Equine Acrylic Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This bold and patriotic equine impressionist painting, "Big Red Flag Portrait #5" by artist Lisa Palombo is a 24x18 acrylic sketch on watercolor paper. De...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Roses Are Not Only Red, " Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Roses Are Not Only Red" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with a rose and butterfly cast in a deep red glow. Ar...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

David - contemporary portrait, mixed media painting, biblical figure, Italian
Located in London, GB
Marco’s background is in engineering and architecture, making him familiar with mathematical design and the awareness of geometry.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Moses -contemporary geometric portrait, Biblical character, mixed media painting
Located in London, GB
Marco’s background is in engineering and architecture, making him familiar with mathematical design and the awareness of geometry.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Red - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gazing at Lebanese American artist Sally K's floral portrait is consuming and empowering. Inspired by strong, feminine women, she creates pop-realistic paintin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic, Board

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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Contemporary Cubist Abstract Portrait, "Bellic"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original abstract cubist portrait by San Diego artist, Alexander Arshansky. Its dimensions are 20"x20"x1.5". It is unframed. This style could be best describ...
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2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Jasper Johns Red (original hand signed mixed media painting, numbered HPM 2/2)
Located in New York, NY
Shepard Fairey Jasper Johns Red, 2010 Silkscreen and mixed media collage on wood. Hand signed twice - on both the front and the back 23 3/4 × 17 1/2 inches Frame included Edition HPM 2/2 This wonderful and culturally significant hand painted multiple on wood board is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Obey Giant Art...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Screen, 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

KLIM
Located in München, BY
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne KLIM, 2021 Acrylic, African wax print sewn on canvas 198 x 205 cm 78 x 80 3/4 in Exhibition: RAPHAEL ADJETEY A...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Fabric, Acrylic

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 ...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she ende...
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1970s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

God is a Negro 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Wonder Woman
Located in East Hampton, NY
Faceless Wonder Woman Female POWER Oil Painting There are more super hero painting Comes ROLLED in a tube Needs framing NY Artist Y.M. Lo oil painting. ...
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

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Oil

YELLOW WATCH
Located in München, BY
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne YELLOW WATCH, 2022 Acrylic, African wax print sewn on canvas 205 x 149 cm 80 3/4 x 58 5/8 in
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Fabric, Acrylic

Apollo & Daphne - Greek Mythology: Gilding, Ink and Acrylic on Canvas
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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Yoko - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Fine Lady Caricatures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on artist paper, unframed size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed. proven...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

Boxing Ring. Boxed Knocked to Floor with 10 Count, Red and Black, Esquire Mag
Located in Miami, FL
Illustration legend Bob Peak depicts a boxer that has fallen to the matt and is being given the 10-count by the referee. Peak captures that peak moment of drama and then exaggerates...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Mosaic, If
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork unframed 60 x 50 x 3 cm What are people's criteria for judging beauty? A beautiful face? A different existence? A feeling of pleasure? Or just follow what others say and make yourself feel the same way? People say the Winged Victory is very beautiful. Admirers come to the Louvre from all over the world. A lot of them just to take a picture to prove they saw it and say to friends, look, this is Winged Victory, how beautiful! Is it really that beautiful in her mind ? not necessarily. If it has head, do you still think it is beautiful? I am afraid many people will have a negative opinion. What is it that blurs the eyes of human beings and makes people's judgments of beauty vary widely? The painting uses knife...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Solace (2022), figurative portrait, floral, flowers, pink, street art, muralist
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Solace" (2022), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state Figurative portrait, face, profile portraiture, hair, braids, fl...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Seduction
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Self-portrait
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

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...
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2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art,
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Self Portrait of Jay-C JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British...
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2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Luxury Redefined, Richi Rich, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Richi Rich keeps toilet paper in his vault. JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British sense of humour,
he addresses stereotypes of modern society and his work, both playful and profound, stimulates us to question conventional social conceptions. JAY-C is a barometer responding to the world around us. Having had his first solo exhibition in 2018, in the same year he did a collaboration with BoConcept on their iconic Imola chair...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

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...
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2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings

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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...
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2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings

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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...
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2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

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...
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2010s Medieval Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Regina - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Pop Art Style Portrait of Al Capone
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil and acrylic portrait of Al Capone by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions are 60x60. It is unframed...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

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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