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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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Gentleman in Tailcoat
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Strong impressionist work by young St. Petersburg-based painter, Ilya Zlobin. Having graduated from the prestigious Repin Academy several years ago, Zlobin is a well-known up-and-co...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait Of A Ballerina, early 20th Century by Marcel BLOCH (1882-1966)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Ballerina, early 20th Century by Marcel BLOCH (1882-1966) Large early 20th Century French Impressionist portrait of a ballerina, oil on canvas by Marcel Bloch. Good q...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Devotion
Located in Wien, 9
Deling with the work of Erich Waske today, one encounters first of all a number of reasons why this outstanding artist has fallen into such undeserved oblivion. In addition to the de...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

Like Water Flows Around Rocks -21st Cent, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work. Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
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Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

And Forsake All Others
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lady Gaga, The Pink Panther and the Little Man
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Model
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV (Born in 1952) The Model Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel Signed lower right 130 x 90 cm 2021
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

No. 83 - Make A Wish
Located in Wien, 9
No. 83 - Make a Wish (2021), Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 100 x 100 cm Elena Steiner was born in Susice (Czech Republic) in 1975 and lives and works in Vienna. She completed her painting studies at the Institute for Fine and Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in Johanna Kandl’s class. In her series of works, Elena Steiner examines a different type of person, sensitizes the viewer, confronts him with the uncompromising demasking of his own world and that of the portrayed by violating the illusion-bearing canvas surface. She creates realistic acrylic paintings as metaphors for being and appearance. The injuries in the form of seams, stitches and stitches are the epitome of traditional female role fulfillment. Elena Steiner deals with the questions of the value of fulfilling external wishes, social recognition and self-determination. Her works experiment with the border areas between painting, object, real exhibition space and imaginative spatiality and thus offer a captivating game be-tween closeness and distance, between impenetrable closeness and revealing familiarity. Her artistic work shows a zoomed in, sharply focused, snappy, humorous portrait...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Woman with Leaves
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right American Art Works Calendar Illustration
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1910s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Wu Jue - 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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Practicing the Speech, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1939 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 33.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Liberty Magazine, January 14, 1939
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rayuela
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Peña Rayuela Photo-painting on parchment paper 46h x 40w in 116.84h x 101.60w cm
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media

Ice Follies Souvenir Program Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1963 Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Original cover art of two women skaters in costume for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies...
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1960s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.P)
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Panel

Superstar
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Boy and Dog
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Left
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Mia Farrow
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood panel with epoxy resin finish. Homage to Mia Farrow. About the Artist: Seek One is an up and coming talent, showing at galleries w...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media

St. Michael
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Door Gevaert (b. 1911/17, Kortrijk/Belgium), Portrait of a Woman
Located in Greding, DE
Depiction of a woman's head with necklace in impasto color application in blue and pink tones. Bottom left signed Door Gevaert. Image size: 78 x 58 cm. Oil on canvas; profiled wooden...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Pretty Girl with Kittens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 20.50" x 14.50" Signature: Signed
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Bright Eyed Ben 1/1
Located in New York, NY
Pigment Ink & Acrylic Canvas Gallery Wrapped over Custom Built Box. One of kind creation by the famed artist. Collected worldwide. Homage to Benjamin Franklin. About the Artist: Ultra Fine Money Artist TRAN$PARENT is an American based artist. He specializes in museum quality, ultra-fine money art. Specifically American denominations from the $1 to the $10,000 bill and with special granted requests the Million Dollar Bill. He also specializes in various rare and well known International currencies. Creating game changing revolutionary art has been his life’s passion and he illustrates it beautifully in his TRANSPARENT artwork depicting the front, back and middle security features of his bills. His TRANSPARENT Art is actually a metaphor for being TRANSPARENT with your loved ones, with your business associates, but most importantly with yourself. He fine tunes each image to ensure the highest possible vibrancy and each image is personally quality controlled by him and is also hand signed and individually numbered. APs to Limited Editions his pieces are completely breathtaking and pop when viewed under regular or proper lighting. His pieces are not easy to come by and are becoming highly sought after. One of his many accomplishments was successfully orchestrating 12 different beautiful installations of his work at Miami’s Famous Art Basel 2018. His installations included being the featured artist at the opening night with the Miami Heat...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Study of the Violinist for Holy Motherhood, pre-raphaelite, newlyn school, Oil
Located in London, GB
Thomas Cooper Gotch 1854 – 1931 Study of Violinist for Holy Motherhood Oil on canvas, on board Image size: 28 ¾ x 21 inches 18th century frame Illustrated in "The Golden Dream, A bi...
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Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Portrait Paintings

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Oil

At the Mirror
Located in New Orleans, LA
the most important American Impressionists of his age. While many of his contemporaries focused on the landscape, Frieseke gained his inspiration from the figural, and in particular the theme of femininity. His works capture female figures engaging in traditionally feminine roles — strolling in the garden or posed in a domestic interior. At the Mirror...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"La Femme en Gris" Painting in Glass Frame 25"x25"in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"La Femme en Gris" Painting in Glass Frame 25"x25"in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné Techniques Bakhoum often paints on canvases that have been prepared with various materials. She gene...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Glass, Pastel, Mixed Media

Awakening at Gordia - Highly Detailed, Surreal and Symbolic Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting, like each of the paintings in the Purple Dawn series, is based on an earlier work that was lost or destroyed in the course of time. Feeling that I wanted to finish wha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Acrylic

Early 20th Century Young Girl With Pink Bow Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful portrait of a young girl by listed aritst artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American,1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower left. Unframed. Image, 20"H x 16"W. Gleiforst wa...
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1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Board, Oil

"First Steps" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Austin Howlett's "First Steps" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a tall female figure walking through a snow covered landscape. Artis...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Le Violoniste - Expressionist Oil, Portrait of a Violinist by Jean Albert Pougny
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed expressionist oil on canvas portrait circa 1942 by French painter Jean Albert Pougny. The work depicts a violinist in an interior. Signatur...
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1940s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Stylish 1960's Lady, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Stylish Lady French School, Mid 20th Century Oil painting on canvas, framed Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner Frame size: 26.5 x 22 inches Stylish ex...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

A kite - 21st century, Young art, Figurative painting, Photorealism, A cat
Located in Warsaw, PL
KAMIL LISEK (born in 1980) Studied under the guidance of prof. Maciej Świeszewski at the faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He graduated with distinction obtaining scholarships from both the Ministry of Culture and the Mayor of the city of Gdańsk. In 2006 he won the Grand Prix (ex...
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2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Enthusiasm
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.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Marin sur le pont" by Edmond de Palezieux - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
oil on canvas without frame One point of restoration
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1890s French School Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of my Young Daughter
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful oil on canvas from the end of the 19th century figuring the portrait of a young woman. The painting is signed Y Pol on the bottom left . The artist in his performance perfe...
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19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Full length portrait of a child with his dog
Located in PARIS, FR
Benjamin Théophile CHARON-LÉMERILLON (Paris, 1807 – Bouzareah (Algiers), 1873) Full length portrait of a child with his dog Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 36 x 28 cm 18...
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Mid-19th Century French School Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Bornholm" Denmark-inspired, female nude, text, iconography, folklore
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Bornholm" is an original artwork made from acrylic on canvas by KC Ortiz. This piece measures 38.5"h x 27.5"w. Born in Chicago, and currently residing in Copenhag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Spanish girl with headscarf
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Beige wooden frame 56.5 x 43.5 x 4 cm
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Lady French 19th Century Painting Pastel on Canvas
Located in FR
19th Century Portrait of a Lady French Pastel on Canvas c1850-60 Indistinctly signed Unframed This has at some time been removed from its frame there is a small hole as shown in pho...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

English 19th century figure scene with fisherman helping ladies on to a boat
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding quality Victorian Genre scene of some fishermen helping some high-class ladies on to their small boat. The style is a type of the High-end Victorian Genre scene. Painters like Tissot, Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites, and other genre painters all painted in this high-quality style. The painting is signed and dated lower left and is an oil on canvas, but alas the signature is not obvious enough to know the painter. The history of the painting is that it came from an English private collection of paintings...
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1860s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil

DAMA GLAMUROSA
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on foam board with custom painted frame. Hand signed lower front by Fernando Fernandez. Size including frame approx 44 x 34.75 inches. Artwork is in excellent con...
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2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Foam Board

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.045
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.045 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Landscape 438.045 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
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1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.044
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.044 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Landscape 438.044 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
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1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Preliminary 427.009
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Preliminary 427.009 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Preliminary 427.009 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages a...
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1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Preliminary 427.019
Located in New York, NY
Profile Preliminary 427.019 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Preliminary 427.019 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintings ...
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1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.032
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Compartmentalized 415.032 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.032 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings...
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1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Oliver Hartt, Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Oliver Hartt, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Size: 15.7 H x 11.8 W in. Signed on the back by the artist Unframed ___ Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazil...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

Post Impressionist Portrait of a Girl -Jewish 1920's art oil painting apples
Located in London, GB
This superb Post Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted Jewish artist Alfred Lomnitz. Lomnitz was born in Germany and Jewish by denomination. He emigrated to England in 1933...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Ian, Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ian, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Size: 15.7 H x 11.8 W in. Signed on the back by the artist Unframed ___ Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artis...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

Queen Mary Greeting School Children - British 1910 royalty portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. Painted circa 1910 the painting depicts Queen Mary greeting a large group of school child...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Antique portrait of a woman sitting by Carl Ernst Von Stetten
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Large antique oil portrait painting of a woman sitting, signed and dated in the lower right corner, Carl V Stetten, Paris 1911. This is a beautiful large scale Art Nouveau atmospheric oil portrait by a re-known and well respected artist, Carl Ernst Von Stetten...
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1910s Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Roses can hurt, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Roses can hurt, 2022 by Ramonn Vieitez Oil on cotton canvas Size: 39.3 H x 39.3 W in. Unique Signed on the back by the artist ___ Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist w...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Cotton Canvas

Portrait of a Young Woman at the Seashore - British Victorian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful oil painting on canvas dates to circa 1840 and is by British Victorian artist William Edward Frost who was noted for his depiction of nudes and feminine beauty. The ov...
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19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Lady at Spinning Wheel - French 1901 interior portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Edwardian oil painting is by French artist William Albert Ablett. Dated 1901, the brush work and use of light are superb. Ablett has perfectly captured the movement and f...
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Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Desire for what might have been, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Desire for what might have been, 2022 by Ramonn Vieitez Oil on paper Size: 16.7 H x 11.8 W in. Unique Signed on the back by the artist ___ Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Paper

Portrait of Water Bearers, Africa - British 1920's Orientalist art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb vibrant Orientalist Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and Norther...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The Gathering After the Rain
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Breath of Fresh Air, oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches, $6,000 Having grown up in England, Heather Barron innately infuses her work with a bit of British charm and decorous character. Re...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Portrait of Hope G. Simpson - British 1952 art female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British realist portrait oil painting is by noted artist Gerald Leslie Brockhurst. It was painted in 1952 when Brockhurst was in his sixties and living in America since 1939. The sitter is Hope G. Simpson. The painting is a half length portrait of a striking blonde woman in a blue buttoned up Chinese style garment. It is a strong portrait with bold colours and confident brushwork and an excellent example of his work. Signed and dated 1952 lower right. Provenance. Hiram Hoelzer New York label verso. Portraits Inc. East Street new York. Label verso. Condition. Oil on canvas, 30 inches by 25 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed in its original wooded frame, 37 inches by 32 inches and in good condition. Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) was a British painter and etcher. Brockhurst was born in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham on 31 October 1890, son of a coal merchant called Arthur Brockhurst, he soon showed precocious drawing skills and entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of twelve. A pupil at the Royal Academy Schools in 1907, he won the gold medal and a travelling scholarship in 1913, enabling him to visit both France and Italy. This led to a closer study of such 15th-century artists as Piero della Francesca, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, whose work had an abiding influence on him. In 1914 he married for the first time to a Frenchwoman, Anaïs Folin, whom he used as the model for most of his early etchings of young womanhood (especially from 1920 till 1934). From 1915 to 1919 Brockhurst and his wife Anaïs lived in Ireland, where they were friendly with the artist Augustus John and his circle. Though he tried his hand at etching in 1914, it was not until 1920 that he began his career as an etcher in earnest, eventually achieving success as both a printmaker and society portraitist. Brockhurst held his first important exhibition in 1919, in London, and after it was well received returned to live there. In 1921 he was one of the early members of the newly-formed Society of Graphic Art and exhibited with them. Throughout the 1930s he continued an increasingly successful career as a portrait artist, with notable sitters including the film stars Merle Oberon and Marlene Dietrich, as well as the Duchess of Windsor, whose husband commissioned her portrait. In 1937 Brockhurst was elected to the Royal Academy and was able to command a price of 1,000 guineas for a portrait. In the same year however details of his relationship with his young model Kathleen Woodward, whom he had renamed Dorette, were made public after she gave an interview to the Sunday Express. Brockhurst's marriage had previously come under strain in 1922 when his wife discovered his adultery with her sister, Marguerite, and now broke down acrimoniously, with Brockhurst counter-suing on the grounds of his wife's adultery. In August 1939 Brockhurst and Dorette moved to the United States, and he was eventually divorced from his first wife in 1940. He married Kathleen in 1947. In New York City, Brockhurst became both famous and rich with a series of society portraits but his printmaking output diminished, especially his etchings. He produced a few lithographs at the end of his career (around 1945). In 1951, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. In 1958, he appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel...
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1950s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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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.

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