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Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe art, film star art, Hollywood art, celebrity art
By Gill Storr
Located in Deddington, GB
Mixed media on stretched canvas using image printing, decal paper, acrylics and gel/texture mediums.
Gill Storr artist with Wychwood Art. Gill Storr is a London born and based contemporary artist. Following an accomplished career in the graphic design industry, Gill has blended her artistry with her knowledge of design, drawing on previous creative inspirations to add zest and variation to the art pieces she creates. After diligently refining her style over a number of years, she now focuses purely on art and is an emerging artist with work in private collections in the UK and US. Gill has had a standout couple of years, establishing herself as a one to watch within the contemporary art scene, with much more to come in the near future. Gill’s evolution into the art world came about from her desire to add an element of tactility to her work and experience blended into one. Gill coins the phrase ‘deconstructed lens’ to describe her work, creating one-off contemporary pieces that incorporate multiple layers with the traditional medium of paints, oils and gels combined with photographic elements on the canvas, board and paper. Gill’s work serves as a juxtaposition of traditional photography, taking an image that can be stored, re-purposed and viewed from a range of perspectives and creating an original piece that forces the viewer to see the scene purely from the artists’ point...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
‘Enlightened’ Abstract Portrait - Mixed Media 40"x30" by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
Enlightened by Masri is a stunning abstract-portrait that depicts a man's upward transcendence into a state of enlightenment.
The thick, textured, and vibrant palette strokes of or...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Against All Odds 7
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The face of this black woman shows the expression of victory, success, and triumph.
As humans, it is inevitable sometimes to experience difficulties, but this period strengthens us ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bathhouse
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Little boy with his grandmother in the bath
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Shadows Speaking to Ghosts by Chris RWK, street art, graffiti, spray paint
By Chris RWK
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Shadows Speaking to Ghosts" (2022), Chris RWK street art, aerosol art, graffiti, comics, red heart, hand lettering, drips, illustration, street artist,...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Spring
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Portrait of a girl in a headscarf with a samovar
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
I'm coming already - Acrylic Figurative Painting, Dog, Polish art
By Rafał Bojdys
Located in Warsaw, PL
RAFAŁ BOJDYS (born in 1967) Bojdys studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Graphics Department in Katowice. He graduated from project atelier of Tomasz Jury and painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Entanglement in Red and Blue- 21st Century Contemporary Portrait of a woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Alejandro Casanova
Entanglement in Red and Blue
130 x 89 cm
oil on canvas
The Spanish artist Alejandro Casanova lives and works in Tenerife, where ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Precipitate, Portrait, Realism, Classical, Florence Academy, Figurative
By Anton Zhou
Located in Houston, TX
Precipitate is painted in the classical style of Realism that he first learned at the Florence Academy of Art. He has painted portraits over the years and is known for showing the expressions in the person's face. He is also know for winning the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo art contest for several years when he was in high school. His paintings sold for over $200,000 with the proceeds going to the scholarship fund.
Anton Zhou
Painter, Draftsman
Anton Zhou is a painter and draftsman whose work operates along the lines of impressionistic realism. Having studied at the Florence Academy of Art and Columbia University in New York City, he paints primarily in oils with elements that span both classical realism and contemporary art. A Houston native, Anton was named a Young Master by the Texas Commission on the Arts and is represented by artist organizations across the states.
Artist Statement
“Crafted by classical methods and embellished with a vibrant palette, my artistic practice revolves around expressing the ephemeral nature of our surroundings. The transitory state of each happening allows for only brief but pure recollections, so adopting a candid lens is a way of genuinely feeling moments, examining their context and illuminating the beauty woven into this space.
A painter of light...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Traveler 1 (purple cloth)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Traveler" is an artwork that embodies the spirit of exploration, adventure, and the quest for new experiences. The title itself suggests a sense of movement, curiosity, and the desi...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Acrylic, Canvas
Woman and rose window oil on canvas painting surrealist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Woman and rose window - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 61x50 cm.
Frameless.
Ramon Llovet Miserol (Barcelona, August 7, 1917 - Barcelona, August 2, 1987...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Blue Mobile
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Female Face Icon X /// Contemporary Pop Street Art Portrait Painting Canvas
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Female Face Icon X"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso
Year: 2023
Medium: Orig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Canvas
Jack Russell Terrier, large minimal black and white dog in ink on paper
By Ian Mason
Located in Charleston, US
This stunning large black and white ink painting of a Jack Russell Terrier dog, is a contemporary minimal portrait in black ink on Fabriano 300gsm paper. Ian Mason's portraits of d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Dreaming Dali, #2270, Horst P. Horst Homage, Mixed media Collage on Paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Dreaming Dali #2270 by Natasha Zupan
Mixed-media on paper
Measures: 13 in. H x 13 in. W
One of a kind
Signed lower right on recto by the artist
Numbered on verso
2018
Natasha Zupan'...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1951
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 141 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings: Orovida, 3rd-26th January 1952, no. 51
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fix your hair
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Cubans in national headdresses and dresses in the process of communication. One girl fixes another's hair
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Muddled 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Muddled speaks to my feelings about the present, the whole world has turned upside down right before our very eyes.
The despondent expression in the painting shows a confused act of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
John Fishing
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
John Fishing by Lu Haskew
Oil 30x24" image size
Figurative Portrait of a man with fishing pole.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Lu considered it a must to work with live models once or twice...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Beatles Painting by David Hollier
Located in New York, NY
Text from: I Want To Hold Your Hand, November 29th 1963, The Beatles.
Acrylic on canvas.
Piece size: 27" x 47"
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Figure - Painting by Behçet Safa - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Figure is an original contemporary artwork realized by the artist Behçet Safa (1934-2018).
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated on the back.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Journey - Figurative acrylic painting, Colorful, Surrealistic, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
MIKOŁAJ MALESZA (born in 1954) a painter and a stage designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, at the Department of Interior Design, where he graduated from in 1979. He had over 20 individual exhibitions and participated in numerous collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad (Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Czech and Slovak Republics...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Portrait of Working Class Man
Located in Surfside, FL
American artist Samuel Brecher (active NY, 1897-1982) Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right ‘S. Brecher’
Brecher was a very accomplished painter who won over forty prestigious prizes and awards during his career, and had numerous one-man exhibitions. Brecher’s works are included in many important private collections as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Newark Museum of Art. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and is a member of the Salmugundi Club* and the National Academy of Art
Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains, now a part of Poland. His family came to New York in 1910, where Samuel graduated from Cooper Union* in 1921. He studied Art at the National Academy of Design* from 1921-1924, and continued studies under Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Brecher was represented by several well known New York City galleries in the 1940’s and 1950’s including the Kraushaar Gallery, the ACA Gallery, the Hudson Walker Gallery and the Merrill Gallery. During his career he won over forty prestigious prizes and awards and had numerous one-man shows.
Some of Brechers’s contemporary artist friends were Walt Kuhn, Reginald Marsh, Richard Haley...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
LOVE FACE
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Mixed media on paper
Shipped well protected, rolled in a tube, unframed
I can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, contact us without obligation
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Stanley Rosenthal Watercolor, Female, Detailed Psychological Portrait
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
This is one of Stanley's exquisite watercolors of the women he painted: friends, students, family, colleagues, models surrounded by their specific interest, their line of work, their area of expertise. Only upon close inspection can the detail and introspection of the artist in relation to his subject be appreciated. Stanley's work is of the quality that can be enjoyed and lived with forever. These women may be specific, but they are also every woman, strong women, and the care and tenderness with which he has rendered them comes through with great power.
Stanley Rosenthal...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bloodhound, minimalist black and white dog painting of a by Ian Mason, British
By Ian Mason
Located in Charleston, US
Bloodhound, this stunning large minimalist black and white painting of a Bloodhound dog, is a contemporary portrait in acrylic on canvas. Ian Mason's portr...
Category
2010s Minimalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Twins" Oil Painting 35" x 24" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Twins" Oil Painting 35" x 24" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Family 2 - Contemporary Minimalistic Figurative Oil Painting, Realism, Beach
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Minimalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA
studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Night. Silence." Oil Painting 39" x 29" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Night. Silence." Oil Painting 39" x 29" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Year: 2010
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
American Modernist Abstract Portrait Dancer Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Unsigned. Image size, 30L x 40H. Framing available.
Category
1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nica" is the goddess of victory from Greek mythology
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
On the right side from below and behind
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Novus Amor, Novis Vita V, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita V, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working proces...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
HELLO FROM ANOTHER PLANET
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by DARIA KUSTO
The magic flow reality..
Acrylic on canvas
Shipped From Spain.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mother and Child II
Located in London, GB
'Mother and Child II', watercolour on fine art paper (1970), by Raymond Debiève. In a clear nod to Picasso's influence both stylistically and in terms of subject matter (Picasso pain...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Portrait of Truman Capote" by John MacWhinnie
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John MacWhinnie, American (1946 - )
Title: Portrait of Truman Capote
Year: 1968
Medium: Mixed Media on Board (Oil and Pencil), signed and dated l.r.
Size: 23.5 x 18 inches
Fr...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board, Pencil
"Untitled" Contemporary Abstract Portrait of a Young Man by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri is a passionate Italian, US-based artist whose work has been exhibited in USA, the UK, Germany, Lebanon, Italy and Norway. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, an...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Malys - Photorealistic portrait painting by Mauro Maugliani
Located in PARIS, FR
Maly is an oil painting by the Italian contemporary artist Mauro Maugliani.
This work is typical of the artist's pictorial production. The painter, a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled - Figurative Painting of a Woman
By Khalid Nadif
Located in East Quogue, NY
Contemporary Moroccan figurative painting by Khalid Nadif.
Mixed media on canvas, offered framed. Signed on back by the artist.
Portrait, female figure, figurative art, figurative painting, contemporary art, contemporary painting, surrealist, surrealism, mixed media, Moroccan artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Portrait Johann Theodor Bavaria, Son of Prince Elector, by Joseph Vivien, Rococo
By Joseph Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
Portrait of Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703-1763)
by Joseph Vivien
Johann Theodor of Bavaria (* September 3, 1703 in Munich; † January 27, 1763 in Lièg...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Attributed to Cornelius de Neve, Portrait of John, Lord Belasyse
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Cornelius de Neve (circa 1612-1678)
Portrait of John, Lord Belasyse (1614-1689)
Oil on canvas; held in a period style carved polished wood frame.
Dimensions refer to framed size.
Cornelius de Neve, was born in Antwerp, possibly training under the Dutchman Mierveldt and settling in London by 1627. It has been suggested he possibly associated with Van Dyck, though his works show a strong debt to painting in England prior to his arrival, particularly John de Critz...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Wading Aquamarine" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Wading Aquamarine" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts a feminine model kneeling in a white dress at the water's edge.
About the Artist:
Suchitra...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Palm's Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Ayline Olukman is a multimedia artist whose work addresses the notion of intimacy, solitude and wandering. She creates with photography, painting, writing, etching and drawing. This multimedia series is from the artist's vacation, road trip across the West Coast of the USA. The palm trees are reflected in the stillness of the pool, the sky is has blue clouds floating happily across a white sky as a motel, hotel frames...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Photographic Paper, Stretcher Bars
ABSTRACT FACE
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Mixed media on paper
Shipped well protected, rolled in a tube, unframed
I can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, contact us without obligation
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
Fly away - Photorealistic portrait painting by Mauro Maugliani
Located in PARIS, FR
Fly Away is an oil painting by the Italian contemporary artist Mauro Maugliani.
This work is typical of the artist's pictorial production. The painte...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Untitled' Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Portrait by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri is a passionate Italian, US-based artist whose work has been exhibited in USA, the UK, Germany, Lebanon, Italy, and Norway. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, a...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Native American Chief" Portrait Painting
By Rick Boren
Located in Houston, TX
Rick Borens' piece showcases a Native American chief standing in front of a landscape
Dimensions without Frame: H: 20in x W: 31.5 in.
Artist Bi...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Slide Away - Photorealistic portrait painting by Mauro Maugliani
Located in PARIS, FR
Slide away is an oil on canvas by contemporary Italian artist Mauro Maugliani.
This work is typical of the artist's pictorial production. The painter...
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swaying chatter Julien Wolf Contemporary art painting expressionist
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
“At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tried to captur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Family Time ‘Figurative Contemporary Original Painting Colorful 36" x 41
Located in Carmel, CA
Innocent is an artist who harnesses the beauty of colours to create a certain brilliance in his work that portrays the graceful ambience of the African culture.
Using his dexterity a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Drunken Golfer by Peter Hobbs Golf Original Painting Caricature c1950
By Peter Hobbs
Located in FR
Drunken Golfer by Peter Hobbs Golf Original Painting Caricature c1950
Amusing original sketch caricature of a Golfer
The Drink
Ready to frame
From a series of golf caricatures by the...
Category
1950s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink
My Room - Photorealistic portrait painting by Mauro Maugliani
Located in PARIS, FR
My Room is an oil painting by the Italian contemporary artist Mauro Maugliani.
This work is typical of the artist's pictorial production. The painter, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Rome, has a traditional approach to painting both in the choice of his subjects and in their realization. He creates oil portraits in the pure tradition of Italian painting but modernizes them by choosing to represent more modern elements in his compositions.
This work is a hyper-realistic portrait of a woman. The composition of the portrait is quite classical, except that the portrait is enhanced with some modern elements like the metal fence...
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Minimalist black and white painting of a Greyhound dog by British Ian Mason
By Ian Mason
Located in Charleston, US
Greyhound, This stunning large minimalist black and white painting of a Greyhound dog, is a contemporary portrait in acrylic on canvas. Ian Mason's portrai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Face of Contentment' Oil On Canvas by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri is a passionate Italian, US-based artist whose work has been exhibited in USA, the UK, Germany, Lebanon, Italy and Norway. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, an...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Ocean Beach San Francisco
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
Portrait of a Lady Gardener - Modern British Impressionist Fauvist Oil Painting
By Paul Beauvais
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful post impressionist/fauvist impasto oil on board portrait of a lady gardener resting on a bench, by modern British artist Paul Beauvais.
Excellent quality early work by ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
L'enfance - Mixed media figurative painting by french artist
Located in PARIS, FR
Mahault Maréchal est une peintre Française basée à Paris.
Ses formes libres et ses personnages, pleins de vie narrent avec humour sa vision de la condition humaine.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
"The Denver Gambit" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "The Denver Gambit" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of a crowd of people gathered together playing matches of chess.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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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