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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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The room is on fire as she's fixing her hair
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Léo Dorfner offers a punk reading that disturbs interpretations that are too pious. His reappropriation of media representations, advertising icons, snippets of everyday life and vi...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Spring
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Portrait of a girl in a headscarf with a samovar
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

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...
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2010s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Pencil, Acrylic, Canvas

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
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

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.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The inner peace
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The main thing in life is to save your own inner peace, on the left Buddha - he is calm and peaceful, on the right is our everyday’s life with all troubles...
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Red Rover, Red Rover" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michelle Jader's "Red Rover, Red Rover" is an original, handmade oil painting on 2 acrylic panels that depicts a child playing on a playground toy and t...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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

Materials

Acrylic

Spur. Mixed media fashion portrait on a Black and white photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Spur, 2022 by Hunter & Gatti Acrylic and scratch on fine art metallic paper with a pearlescent coating Image size: 20.8 in H x 15.7 in W Unframed The “visible” spectrum, probably the most well-known of human sensory limitations, as the human #eye is only capable of perceiving light at wavelenghts between 390 and 750 nanometers. Of course, calling it the “visible” spectrum is a bit of a misnomer, as plenty of animals are capable of perceiving light with frequencies outside this relatively narrow band of electromagnetic radiation. Using infrared black and white...
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

The Winner V, Oil on Canvas Painting by Ognian Zekoff, 2019
Located in London, GB
The Winner V, Oil on Canvas Painting by Ognian Zekoff, 2019 Through the plethora of meaningless images that flood our daily experiences, there are very few, which we encounter, that...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

tgb C. 1-17, Mixed Media on Canvas Painting by Sebastian Herzau, 2017
Located in London, GB
tgb C. 1-17, Mixed Media on Canvas Painting by Sebastian Herzau, 2017 Painting both portraits and landscapes, Sebastian Herzau’s artworks share a common blurred, enigmatic effect th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Novus Amor, Novis Vita XII, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita XII, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working proc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"Remix’D-3 (Rose)" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Grant Gilsdorf's "Remix’D-3 (Rose)" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model eclipsed by pink and bird patterned wallpaper. About the Artist: Grant Gilsdor...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Remix’D-2 (Mint)" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Grant Gilsdorf's "Remix’D-2 (Mint)" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model's face eclipsed by floral patterns and text. About the Artist: Grant Gilsdorf ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Noiseless. Mixed media fashion portrait on a Black and white photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Noiseless, 2022 by & Gatti Acrylic and scratch on fine art metallic paper with a pearlescent coating Image size: 20.8 in H x 15.7 in W Unframed The “visible” spectrum, probably the most well-known of human sensory limitations, as the human #eye is only capable of perceiving light at wavelenghts between 390 and 750 nanometers. Of course, calling it the “visible” spectrum is a bit of a misnomer, as plenty of animals are capable of perceiving light with frequencies outside this relatively narrow band of electromagnetic radiation. Using infrared black and white...
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2010s 85 New Wave Portrait Paintings

Materials

Coating, Paper, Acrylic

Meditation #3
Located in Singapore, SG
Humans need a balance between the physical world and the inner consciousness. One way to get there is through meditation. Meditation has a positive and constructive impact on the psy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Meditation #1
Located in Singapore, SG
Humans need a balance between the physical world and the inner consciousness. One way to get there is through meditation. Meditation has a positive and constructive impact on the psy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bruno Mars portrait from the "Nothing Stays Still" Intervened by the artists.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Bruno Mars" by Hunter & Gatti Acrylic paint on top of archival pigment print Measures: 20" H x 15" W x 1.5 D 2017 Framed This piece is part of the H&G ser...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Pigment

Noel Coward's Eye, #2257. Horst P. Horst Homage, Mixed media Collage on Paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Noel Coward's Eye, #2257 by Natasha Zupan Collage on Paper Measures: 11.41 in. H x 8.26 in. W One of a kind Signed lower right on recto by the artist Numbered on verso 2018 Natasha ...
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2010s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, ABS

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...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...
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Early 2000s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ahlem
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Orsolic Dalessio transports the viewer back to childhood in this plein air painting. The girl at the center holds a doll, and a stuffed bunny lays at her side. She has tossed aside h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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.
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

El Iris Love Letter: Ann Miller
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...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Enamel

El Iris Love Letter: Lauren Bacall
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...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Enamel

El Iris Love Letter: Joan Blondel
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...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Enamel

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)
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled (Head)
Located in New York, NY
Marc Andre Untitled (head) 2022 Acrylic and oil stick on canvas 24 x 18 inches Marc Andre meditates on the moments we step out of our comfort zone. Infused with neo-expressionist influences and demonstrating a figurative approach akin to the portraits and sculptures of Benin infused with a refreshing wave of energy. By channeling a playful flirtation with mark-making, Andre shows us that childhood creativity is “as pure as it gets”. Andre was born in Toulouse, France and spent much of his childhood traveling the world and frequenting museums with his mother, primarily visiting exhibitions featuring Pan...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Acrylic

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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Materials

Watercolor

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

Materials

Oil

Fragile Protection
Located in Spetses, GR
One of those pieces you could stare at all day long. Part of Fotiadou's 'Eternity' series, this painting was exhibited in the solo exhibition in Athens. Sofia is an exceptional Greek...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil on Panel Portrait, "An Inseperable Bond"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind impressionist oil portrait by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. It is painted on a circular wood panel. Its diameter is 18...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Expressionistic Portrait, "Dreaming"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original expressionistic painting by San Diego artist Stefan Talian. Its dimensions are 40" x 40" x 1.5". It is unfra...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Mircea Marosin (1921-2007) - 20th Century Oil, Woman in White
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On card.
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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.
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21st Century and Contemporary 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Terry Shelbourne (1930-2020) - 1972 Oil, Portrait of The Artist's Brother
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil portrait by Terry Shelbourne of his brother Michael Shelbourne. Inscribed to the reverse with the name of the sitter and with a heartwarming note "The World's Best Brother...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 2003 Oil, The Blue Turban
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait in oil, depicting a male figure wearing a blue turban. Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. There is a 'Mall Galleries' label at...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

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.
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20th Century 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.
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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 ...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 20th Century Oil, Portrait of Andre Agassi
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On canvas board.
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21st Century and Contemporary 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Jolly Chap
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of a jovial man in a pointed white hat with a jovial smile. The painting is unsigned and presented on board. On board.
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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 2007 Oil, Rick Stein
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful portrait of Christopher Richard "Rick" Stein, an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and television presenter. Signed and dated to the lower right-hand corner.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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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.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Smiling Nurse
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait in oil, showing a woman in a nurse's uniform, with a kindly smile. The artist has signed to the reverse and there is a label at the reverse with the artist's name and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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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 ...
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20th Century 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.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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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 ...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Nora Braham - Framed Early 20th Century Oil, Historical Model
Located in Corsham, GB
An unusual portrait of a middle aged woman dressed in 19th century Quaker costume, by Nora Braham. Braham was a student at the Slade School and it is very likely this painting was co...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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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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