Skip to main content

Portrait Paintings

32
to
246
1,000
727
501
277
1,157
380
279
405
344
311
281
512
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
691
157
103
89
86
68
45
37
25
18
12
9
8
1
1,414
873
640
487
483
419
207
205
162
144
104
89
55
47
40
38
35
34
34
31
15
49
486
1,305
5
10
18
21
23
27
45
51
30
55
10
29
29
21
15
13
1,624
1,066
874
827
467
Portrait Paintings For Sale
Color:  Gray
Color:  Red
'Skagen', Paris, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Salon des Artistes Français, Munich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Clement' for Gad Frederick Clement (Danish, 1867-1933) and painted circa 1920. Titled, verso, on old exhibition label, 'Fra Haven' (From the Garden). Additionally signed, verso, on stretcher bar and titled, 'Vesterby, Skagen' Exhibited: Skagen Museum, circa 1920, from label, verso. 'Helsinki Art Gallery, 1928', from label, verso. 'Danish Art Convention Forum, 1929', from label, verso. Gad Clement created this luminous painting in the garden of the Vesterby beach house where he and his wife, the artist Martha 'Tupsy' Clement, summered from 1908-1920. A substantial and well-exhibited work, it shows Tupsy at her easel beside their daughters, Bitten (b.1912) and Lillemor (b.1909). Fusing the ideal with the intensely personal, the artist has lyrically captured both the bonds of maternity and the dreamland of childhood. Gad Frederick Clement first studied at Copenhagen's Technical School (1883–1885) before attending the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1885-1888). Returning to Denmark, he continued his studies under Laurits Tuxen...
Category

1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Meeting Andy Warhol, B&W oil on canvas, B& W portrait, grisaille painting
Located in Cody, WY
TITLE: Meeting Warhol (The Inability of Meeting Someone Famous Objectively); 2013 This painting is part of a series of paintings from the series titled: The Inability of Meeting So...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Marian Virginia Schuster - Surrealist Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marian Schuster was 19 years old in 1954 and attended City College San Francisco where she studied Art. In the old school, Victorian, San Francisco, moneyed household that she was r...
Category

1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Frédérica
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 57 x 38.3 x 1.5 cm
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian School Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Pointer, contemporary minimal dog portrait black and white acrylic on canvas
Located in Charleston, US
German Shorthair Pointer, contemporary minimal dog portrait black and white acrylic on canvas. England's Ian Mason's portraits of dogs are v...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
Category

Early 2000s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State ...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Self Portrait (2021) - vibrant, expressive, red, male, figurative, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this haunting self-portrait by Canadian realist Dan Hughes, the artist’s face seems to emerge from a rich red background. Hughes is known for his sensitive and engaging figurative...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

SPACE INVADERS
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Mr. Babes. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: James “Babes” Kopp (b.1983), professionally known as MR.BABES, is a Miami-based neo-pop artist whose vibrant paintings are exhibited and collected around the world. After receiving his BFA from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Kopp found 15 years of notable success across South Florida as an investment art broker...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Late 18th Century English Family Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
English family portrait from the late 18th century. The canvas is aged accordingly with newsprint from October 1847. The painting is framed in a decorative gold frame with an open ba...
Category

Late 18th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Life Spirit
Located in Paris, IDF
Kusbudiyanto is an Indonesian artist born in 1969 who lives & works in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

1940's French Fashion Illustration - Chic Lady In Blue Detailed Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The s...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mind Full
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 (Issued by the Gallery)
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

I'm A Spec 2
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 (Issued by the Gallery)
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, ABS

Mid 20th Century "Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of Captives" Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 20th Century "Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of Captives" Original Oil Painting Circa 1950 - Relined Canvas Dimensions 23" wide x 33" high. Good condition with a few spo...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Childhood - Contemporary Nature Oil Painting, Landscape, Child Portrait
Located in Salzburg, AT
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She studied at the Faculty of Painting...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

1950s "Slit" Mid Century Painting Bay Area Artist
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedmann Opper Slit c. 1940-1950's Gouache on Paper 15" x 18", Unframed *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

A Personal Throne
Located in Burlingame, CA
"A Personal Throne", a figurative work in multi color, including mainly gray and blue with red. Acrylic on paper, 30 x 22.5 inches / framed 35 x 27.5 inches. John Casado’s painting...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

portrait of a man
By Elie Shamir
Located in Surfside, FL
The painter Elie Shamir was born in 1953 in the village Kfar Yehoshua, studied at Bezalel, and participated in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad. This exhibition centers on Shami...
Category

1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1950's French Modernist Signed Oil Ladies dressed in Yellow Gazing Upwards
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Claude Benard, signed and dated 1952 Title: Ladies in Yellow Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Size: board : 16 x 13 inches Provenance: private collection...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vision
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. Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Kostacis with his hummingbirds Figurative popular scene in a Renaissance setting
Located in Segovia, ES
Kostacis with his hummingbirds. Figurative popular scene in Renaissance atmosphere. Acrylic on canvas. Dimensions in centimeters 81 x 100 x 2 cm. Framed 105 x 124 x 5 cm. Dimensions In inches: 31.89 x 39.37 x 0.79 " . Framed 41.34 x 48.82 x 1.97 " Kostacis with his hummingbirds. Figurative Popular scene in Renaissance atmosphere. Acrylic on canvas. Outside scene where a group of people seem to experience extraordinary sensations surrounded by hummingbirds. In an urban environment with a Renaissance flair, the characters, dressed in original clothes of plural inspiration, seem to react ecstatically by the effects of the hummingbirds, which Kostacis seems to have under control with his wealthy and wise aura. The studied composition, the chromatic harmony, and the subtlety of the design of all the elements that make up the scene, give this painting a classic beauty. The author adds to all this his own brushstrokes of fine humor that wrap the whole theme in a casual irony, the same which surrounds all the stories that Igor Fomin...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of Boy in a Chair
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Girl
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A breathtaking oil painting by Israeli Born-New York based artist Yigal Ozeri. This hyperrealist portrait of a young girl staring back at her viewer, is a classic example of the arti...
Category

1990s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Magic Music Event by Annemarie Ambrosoli, Oil on Canvas
Located in Kiens, BZ
Magic Music Event (2017), oil on canvas stretched over wooden frame, 100x110 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist) This “Magi...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Morning in the Studio
Located in Deddington, GB
Morning in the Studio by Charmaine Chaudry [2022] original Oil on canvas Image size: H:40 cm x W:50 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:50 cm x D:2cm Sold Unframed Please...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boy with Anemones
Located in London, GB
'Boy with Anemones', oil on cardstock paper, by Raymond Debiève (1965). Here the artist paints a young boy having his breakfast with a beautiful bouquet of an...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Wreath in Hair_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Portrait/Figurative/Floral
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Wreath in Hair" Ink on Paper 22" x 22" Framed Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration from her Colombian h...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper

A. Costa - 1912 Oil, Portrait of a Spanish Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine portrait of a smiling Spanish lady dressed in fine lace, with fresh red flowers in her hair. She wears large green jewels around her neck and ...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Year One - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Romantic School, Portrait of a young priest, dated 1860 oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School, Portrait of a young priest, 1860 Signed (illegible) and dated 1860 oil on canvas 21.5 x 16 cm In a modern frame : 35 x 29 cm
Category

1860s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 2008 Oil, Happy Hamilton
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of Louis Hamilton, the Formula 1 driver, lifting the Australian Grand Prix trophy above his head, smiling. The painting has been signed...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

1940's Fashion Illustration - Four Brides Holding Candles
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage and me...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Contemporary Acrylic - Tranquility
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Well-presented in a double card mount and in a wooden frame with an inner gilt detail. On canvas paper.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Hazel Carter - Mid 20th Century Oil, Deep In Thought
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful moment captured in oil, this portrait shows a moment of deep for a rosy cheeked woman. Her dark hair falls over one shoulder of her colourful jacket as she tilts her head...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Victorian Soiree, " Mixed Media Tile, 2007
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ceramic, Paper, Acrylic

Audrey Hepburn Louis Vuitton Vogue Mixed Media Contemporary Collage
Located in Houston, TX
Collage Vogue portrait of Audrey Hepburn. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. Jim Hudek is an emerging artist in the Texas region and Houston Texas. A native Houst...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Lanzarote Famara 02
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Edward Lewis (1936-2018) - Framed Contemporary Oil, Impressionistic Portrait
Located in Corsham, GB
A violet sky provides a glowing background to bold brush strokes, rendering an atmospheric portrait of a woman deep in thought. On board.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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...
Category

1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Willow
Located in Denver, CO
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in B...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Light
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bay Area artist Michelle Fillmore found her love of oil painting at the University of Las Vegas, where she graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawin...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Angel Bride
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Glass, Paint

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...
Category

1970s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Joyce Moore - Contemporary Oil, The Hindu Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
Impulsive brushwork and a fragrant palette capture a Hindu lady who contrasts her drab surroundings. Unsigned. On canvas paper.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Marilyn "A Wise Girl" Large Original Marilyn Monroe Textural Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Christina Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. Major's current creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition, and the many variables that portraiture deals with. This one-of-a-kind oil painting is 77.5 inches tall and 64.5 inches wide. It is signed by Major on the back. The artwork is wired and ready to hang. It does not require framing. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and International shipping are also available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Major expands the traditional portrait painting...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Focus
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 (Issued by the Gallery)
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) Saint Joseph and the Christ Child Oil on Metal
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Saint Joseph and the Christ Child" Manner of Guido Reni (1575-1642) Italian. Oil on Copper, Unframed painting: 9.35 x 7.25 inches Condition ...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Marc, Portrait in Landscape, Contemporary Oil on Linen Board
Located in Cotignac, FR
A contemporary oil on linen board portrait of Marc, part of a series of portraits: 'Portrait in Landscape' by the Dutch artist Bernadette 'Berna' Van Baarsen. The painting is signed ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Board

"Mother and Daughter"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
The main feature of his work is the overlap between "serious" painting and images drawn from the world of advertising, illustration and comic strips. Pictorial influences range from ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Freddie Mercury - Acrylic Painting by Ivana Burello - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
The painting is oart of the MUSIC series and is dedicated to Freddie Mercury in the anniversary of his death. It is made on a rigid panel and is a unique piece authenticated by the ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Mid 20th Century Oil - Portrait of Nude Female Figure in Bedroom
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On canvas board.
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lila, first snow, orange chrome
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Portrait of Lila, oil on canvas 47 3/4 in x 31 in 2015
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Gelata
Located in Torino, TO
The work consists of an agglomerated acrylic base, on which the artist painted the subject with acrylic
Category

2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic

Mid 20th Century Oil - In the Yellow Light
Located in Corsham, GB
With powerful eyes, a woman gazes straight at the viewer, capturing a tender, sincere moment within the sickly evening light. The artwork has been finished with slight impastos worke...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mindset
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Remember ye, not former things, neither consider the things of old." Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have ne...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Harlequin
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Portrait of harlequin by Vassyl Khmeluk was executed in circa 1946-1947. This impressive stylistic artwork by Khemluk falls well into a series of portraits masterfully created by the...
Category

1940s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil Painting /Portrait/ Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, 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.

Recently Viewed

View All