Portrait Paintings
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Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Lady With Daisies
Located in Corsham, GB
A feminine portrait showing an elegant woman in white, sitting with her hands gently poised, next to a vase of daisies. The painting is unsigned, on bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 20th Century Oil, Portrait of Andre Agassi
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On canvas board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Male Head Study
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil head study of a characterful man with quaffed hair and a white beard. The painting is unsigned, on board. There is a less worked study of the same man on the reverse of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Lady in Turtleneck
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower left-hand corner. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, An Earnest Smile
Located in Corsham, GB
A fun portrait in oil showing a jolly man with an earnest smile in a blue hued palette. The painting has been signed at the reverse and is on wooden panel. On wood panel.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, The Matron
Located in Corsham, GB
A plump, matronly woman sits on a bench, holding a yellow book in her lap in the folds of her white apron. The artist has captured much character with impr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1996 Oil, Carmen Barbara
Located in Corsham, GB
A portrait of a jolly woman with a flamboyant floral headdress. The artist has used a blue palette that makes the areas of yellow and red used for the jacket and headdress stand out ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Women's Forum by Annemarie Ambrosoli, Oil on Canvas
Located in Kiens, BZ
Women's Forum (2017), oil on canvas stretched over wooden frame, 100x100 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli
The "voice" of women can be perceived by looking at t...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
ZERO (ORIGINAL PAINTING)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on paper. Hand signed on front by the artist. Sheet size 44 x 35 inches. Custom framed in white with hand painted fillet. Frame ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - 7 Personnages Arone
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
Oil, Canvas
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
"All We Have" Brigitte Bardot Pop Art Street Poster Décollage Portrait Painting
By Gieler
Located in New York, NY
This piece depicts famous French actress and model Brigitte Bardot in a trio composition. Done with beautiful expressive colors and a distinctive street art design, this piece pops w...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Juvenile Gaze
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, Acrylic
The Gray Kimono
Located in New York, NY
The Gray Kimono, 1901, by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches unframed (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
28 x 24 1/16 inches framed (71.12 x 61.11875 cm)
Paper (Alice Wil...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Swiss Miss
Located in Corsham, GB
A characterful contemporary oil portrait showing a woman in traditional Swiss attire including a fanned black headdress. The artist has signed to the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barack Obama and a comic who has ice cream on his head. Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Barack Obama and a comic who has ice cream on his head, by Jose Ricardo Contreras González
From the series Movies
Oil and acrylic on ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Edward Lewis (1936-2018) - Contemporary Oil, Simon
By Edward Lewis
Located in Corsham, GB
In this life study, paint has been applied in a fast, expressive manner to render a lively and expressive study of a nude. The artwork radiates energy in an honest and undiluted mann...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mickey Mouse MM Post-Mortem Mask, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Tomasz Bielak born in Lublin in 1967. He graduated of The Academy of Fine Arts, Painting and Graphics Design Department in Gdańsk, in 1994. He realized installation art, graphics ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1993 Oil, The Art Collector
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a painted frame with molding detail. Signed and dated. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Madison, buff titanium, light pine
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Dichromatic Portraiture
" The laborious process of applying and removing, the resulting fragility and possibility of failure are all essential elements if the works are to be succ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Pension Fund
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The picture "Pension Fund" is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy".
100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2019
The picture is ready t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Blue Gaze
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and characterful portrait showing a dark haired woman with a soft gaze. The artist has used blue undertones to add an air of mystery to the po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nasser Ovissi, 'Iranian, Born 1934' "Queen Isabella I of Spain" Oil on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Nasser Ovissi, (Iranian, Born 1934) "Queen Isabella I of Spain" oil on canvas painting
Very fine quality painting by Persian Artist Nasser Ovissi who i...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Friends by Annemarie Ambrosoli, Oil on Canvas, 90x90 cm
Located in Kiens, BZ
Friends (2022), oil on canvas stretched over wooden frame, 90x90 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist)
This artwork comes dir...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas Gestural Abstracted Expressive Portrait
Located in Cape Town, ZA
This is a unique, gesturally abstracted oil painting on stretched canvas by South African artist Johan van Vuuren. His portraits are expressive and ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Twins by Annemarie Ambrosoli, Oil on Canvas
Located in Kiens, BZ
Twins (2019), oil on canvas stretched over wooden frame, 50x60x2 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist)
Hand-signed by the Art...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Woman In Green
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil portrait of a woman with cropped hair. The modernist style and stylized palette lend much character and charm to this painting. The painting is unsigned on board.
On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Disgruntled Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine, characterful portrait of a disgruntled old man in a jacket and tie. The painting is unsigned on board. On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1996 Oil, Back to Dickensian Days
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. There is a 'Mall Galleries' label on the reverse inscribed with additional details. Presented in an off-white frame with a gilt outer ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1977 Oil, Barbara's Jubilee Hat
Located in Corsham, GB
A jolly self portrait of Barbara Doyle in her jubilee hat and matching jumper. The artist smiles a soft smile with a direct gaze. The painting has been signed and dated in the lower ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Otto Conducts
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of the Polish conductor , Otto Klemperer, showing him deeply involved in the music and the action of conducting an orchestra. There is a label at the reverse with the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 20th Century Oil, Taking Notes
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful oil painting by the artist Barbara Doyle, depicting an interior scene with a lady taking notes. Unsigned. Presented in a distressed off-white contemporary frame. On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Melancholy in White
Located in Denver, CO
Reclining figure with flowers
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Love..It's just a Question of Numbers by Annemarie Ambrosoli, Oil, 90x90cm
Located in Kiens, BZ
Love...It's just a Question of Numbers (2017), oil on canvas stretched over wooden frame, 90x90 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Spetses, GR
inspired by the paintings of Jenny Saville, George Alekou created this artwork in 2019, probably one of his best so far.
Portrait painting on stretched c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Small Dark Grey Abstract Expressionist Figurative Portrait Painting
By Dick Wray
Located in Houston, TX
Small dark grey abstract expressionist painting of a figure's face by Dick Wray. The painting is currently unframed.
Artist Biography: Dick Wray, a native Houstonian, born in Heigh...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
El Iris Love Letter: Lauren Bacall
By Kadir Lopez
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign.
KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Impressionist Oil Painting, "Spread Your Wings Into The Unknown"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind realistic oil portrait by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 8" x 24" x 1.5". It comes in a wood frame. A ce...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girls portrait. Oil on canvas, 81x57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girls portrait. Oil on canvas, 81x57 cm
Category
1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
El Iris Love Letter: Ann Miller
By Kadir Lopez
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign.
KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
El Iris Love Letter: Joan Blondel
By Kadir Lopez
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign.
KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
The Lady with a Rose 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This attractive young woman gazes solemnly at the rose, with an almost trancelike expression, perhaps brought on by the pleasurable perfume of the rose she holds in her hand, her gaz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Oil Painting on Photograph, "Queen of Rain"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a surrealist figurative painting on an original photographic print by local San Diego artist, Evgeniya Golik. Its dimensions are 15.5"x19x2". It comes framed. A certificate o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Courageous Woman (Feminine Epidemic Series)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This is a universal problem that needs to be addressed, firstly in law 70% of woman has no right, and moreover, in the past and in some culture, your parent choose who you ought to m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Street of Shadows - Finding the Light 2
Located in Denver, CO
"Street of Shadows - Finding the Light 2," is an original oil painting on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sculpture - rich, dark, expressive, figurative abstract, oil on linen on panel
By Mel Davis
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this striking portrait, Mel Davis has captured a classic image--the torso of an ancient sculpture, clothed in robes. In art school, Davis studied and was influenced by the Europea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
1930's Original Parisian Fashion Watercolor Blue Floral Summer Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1930's French fashion design, no doubt of Parisian origin.
The painting, executed in gouache/ watercolor and pencil, is dated to the upper corner ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Early Mid Century Modern Self Portrait by renowned Abstract Expressionist Signed
By Ron Gorchov
Located in New York, NY
Ron Gorchov
Historic Self Portrait, 1955-1959
Oil painting on board
Hand signed in paint on the upper recto and dated 1955-9
Frame included: held in original vintage artist's frame
This work was exhibited at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri in their Masters Exhibit in December, 2022, and is reproduced as a full page in their exhibition catalogue. A copy of this catalogue accompanies the artwork.
In 2019, the year before Ron Gorchov passed away, Stephen Truax, director of Cheim & Read, his then gallery, passed along details of this extraordinary painting to Gorchov's studio to be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne. When shown the work, Gorchov remembered it well, but was amazed that the painting was still in existence after so many years. This historic early self-portrait, done over a period of four years, from 1955-1959, starting when he was only 25 years old reveals Gorchov's distinctive and sophisticated sense of color and form. This is one of the artist's earliest works, and very few works by Gorchov from this era ever appear on the market or are known to remain in existence. It should be in any museum or career retrospective. This work was gifted by the artist to Elthea Rembrandt Peale...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
My Self
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to have discovered and now present a rare original self portrait by Austrian Expressionist artist, Franz Bergmann (1998-1977)
"My Self", is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1938, with an image dimension of 29 x 24 inches. The painting is in good original condition, the frame has been restored.
A biography on the artist appears below, please contact the gallery with any question.
Franz Bergmann
1898 - 1977
Franz Walter Bergmann was born on August 6, 1898, in Dimling, Austria, a town northwest of Vienna. His parents were both involved in the arts: his mother was a pianist, and his father was an amateur artist and a violinist. After serving in World War I for three years, he enrolled in the National Academy of Art in Vienna and embarked on a seven-year course of study, focusing on figure painting and portraiture. Although schooled in the academic tradition, Bergmann also adopted elements derived from the more avant-garde German Expressionist style. By 1924 he was exhibiting in Vienna and Stockholm. The following year, he graduated with honors.
He left Vienna to tour Europe, and in early 1926 he traveled to the United States. After a brief stay in New York, he moved to Chicago, where he obtained a commission to paint murals for theaters owned by Balaban & Katz. That year his mural sketches were exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then moved to New York, where he joined the staff of the noted Austrian architect and designer Josef Urban...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Attrib. Roberto Luigi Valente (b.1926) - 20th Century Oil, Market Trader
Located in Corsham, GB
A portrait of a market trader stood in front of his produce. He rests one hand on his hip with an umbrella hanging from his wrist. Presented in a wooden frame with gold inner and out...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Control Top
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Control Top' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Large Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Rediscovered New York City Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jonah Kinigstein (b. 1923) is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter. He works in a figurative expressionist style. His works are featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He lives in New York City. Jonah Kinigstein was trained at Cooper Union Art School, The Grande Chaumiere in Paris; and Belle Arte in Rome. He has been a Fulbright Fellow. He has holdings at MOMA, the Ain Herod Museum in Tel Aviv; Smithsonian; the Albright-Knox Gallery and the Nelson Gallery of Art. He lived and worked in Brooklyn New York. Kinigstein was inducted as an Academician into the National Academy of Design in 1997.
Exhibits include: Young Americans at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the National Academy of Arts and Letters; ACA Gallery; Rittenhouse Gallery; the Washington Irving Gallery; and the Pindar Gallery.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (CAPS) '59, University of Illinois, Arthur Okamura, Fred Farr, Jonah Kinigstein, Lawrence Calcagno, Reuben Tam...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
S. Stokr - Fine 1966 Oil, The Traveller
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine characterful Scandinavian School portrait of an elderly man in the street, signed by the artist 'S. Stokr' and dated 1966. The man carries a stick and a large sack, while wear...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunny
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sunny' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious themes including global warming...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a man
By Henri Fehr
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
51 x 42.5 x 4.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trainee
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The picture was painted in China_ during an internship in China in 2009
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
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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