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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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Bright Eyed Ben 1/1
By TRANSPARENT
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...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Ojulari I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Ojulari" is a series of three (3) paintings which does have a similarity of a big eyeball.
Ojulari simply means "Exterior Appearance" of a person.
There is one Yoruba adage that s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Face No. 103, 2018
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
A face in multi colors, including mainly bone with red, grey and white. Acrylic painting on paper is 14 x 11 inches. Part of the artist's new series begun in 2017 of anonymous face...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
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...
Category
2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Foam Board, Acrylic
A kite - 21st century, Young art, Figurative painting, Photorealism, A cat
By Kamil Lisek
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...
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Invisible Women Negre
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Possibilities
By Suzy Smith
Located in Nashville, TN
Suzy Smith is a Wyoming native, who has lived in Albuquerque, NM, for the past 20 years. She paints women from a female perspective, painting the uniquely American culture she grew u...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Double Snoopy Snoopy Twins Snoopy Coupling Portrait on Canvas
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Double Snoopies portrait on canvas.
Dog Twins Double portrait 8x 10 inches on canvas.
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Invisible Women Vermell
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
Jasper Johns Red (original hand signed mixed media painting, numbered HPM 2/2)
Located in New York, NY
Shepard Fairey
Jasper Johns Red, 2010
Silkscreen and mixed media collage on wood. Hand signed twice - on both the front and the back
23 3/4 × 17 1/2 inches
Frame included
Edition HPM 2/2
This wonderful and culturally significant hand painted multiple on wood board is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Obey Giant Art...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Screen, Acrylic
Endless Possibility
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The will to succeed is important, but it is more important to prepare. It's hard to get to the top of success, but harder to remain there. It may take time, but the result is always ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hello
By Suzy Smith
Located in Nashville, TN
Suzy Smith is a Wyoming native, who has lived in Albuquerque, NM, for the past 20 years. She paints women from a female perspective, painting the uniquely American culture she grew u...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reuven Rubin Israeli Aubusson Wool Tapestry Judaica George Goldstein Jerusalem
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an Aubusson style flat weave hand woven wool tapestry. This is from the George Goldstein Atelier in Jerusalem. (Originally known as Nazareth Tapestries) They produced genuine handmade Gobelin tapestries in Israel). This does not bear a label and is not signed, (it might be one of a kind) It might have been a study for a larger piece. It is based on a painting of a fisherman. In 1964 the first French style weaving studio was inaugurated in Israel, in the new city of Nazareth Ilit. With the encouragement of master Jean Lurcat, woven upon several contemporary masters’ original sketches, such as Jean Lurcat, Hans Hartung, Adolph Gottlieb, Karel Appel, Yaacov Agam, Mordecai Ardon, Reuven Rubin, Danny Caravan, and more. Some of these tapestries encountered their moments of glory during the international exhibitions, such as in the Museum of Modern Art (NY), “Expo Montreal” (Canada), Biennale of Lausanne (Switzerland), and others. In 1967, after the Six-Day War, Nazareth’s workshop closed its doors and returned to Jerusalem, where I opened a new studio with a young team made up of eighteen artisans, dedicating their work more specifically towards Israeli artists. The tapestries are woven upon the original sketches of Yohanan Simon, Naftali Bezem. They can be seen on the walls of the Israeli President’s residence, the Yeshiva University of New York, the University of Haifa, New York Bank Discount, as 60-square meter tapestries for the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, and in ceremonial art. Tapestries for Parochet and Torah mantles are seen in Washington, Bet-El Springfield, Babson College, Boston, Bet-El Univ. Andover, Bet-El Highland Park and the Strasbourg Great Synagogue in France. Along with Itche Mambush in EIn Hod these were the fine, Gobelin style modern art tapestry...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wool
Unstoppable
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Unstoppable" is a mesmerizing artwork that immediately captivates the viewer's attention. The central focus of the piece is a woman with her hair beautifully woven and elegantly pac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gallop of the Wild - Original oil on canvas painting
By Blend Cota
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The wild horse's gallop is a performance of vitality and freedom. Running with the wind without constraining their massive strength and energy, these beautiful animals are almost mag...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contentment
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.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a young African American woman
By Chuck Tingley
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas by Chuck Tingley.
Chuck Tingley is one of four artists responsible for the monumental public art mural commissioned by the Albright Knox Art Gallery, entit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"With thoughts about…" Oil Painting 39" x 31" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Located in Culver City, CA
"With thoughts about…" Oil Painting 39" x 31" inch by c
Year: 2009
Size framed: 44" x 36" inch
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Opium Dance
By Serj Tankian
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Kate Moss Icon VIII /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Portrait Fashion Model UK
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Kate Moss Icon VIII"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2023
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Canvas size: 36" x 36"
Condition: The stretched canvas was custom built by the artist himself. In mint condition
Notes:
Katherine Ann Moss (1974-) is an English model and businesswoman. Born in Croydon, Greater London, she was recruited as a model in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Management. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
Devil Drive /// Contemporary Painting Canvas Funny Pop Street Art Car Driving
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Devil Drive"
*Signed and dated by May upper right
Year: 1998
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on heavy wove paper
Sheet size: 28.13" x 21.6...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Acrylic, Paper
Cowboy /// Contemporary Pop Portrait Painting Funny Man Sheriff Dan May American
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Cowboy"
*Signed by May upper right
Circa: 2020
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Board
Framing: Framed in a contemporary black moulding
F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board
Tattoo me 2 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 2
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art, Basquiat, red
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Self Portrait of Jay-C
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British sense of humour,
he addresses stereotypes of modern society and his work, both playful and profound, stimulates us to question conventional social conceptions. JAY-C is a barometer responding to the world around us.
Having had his first solo exhibition in 2018, in the same year he did a collaboration with BoConcept on their iconic Imola chair...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Contemporary Cubist Abstract Portrait, "Bellic"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original abstract cubist portrait by San Diego artist, Alexander Arshansky. Its dimensions are 20"x20"x1.5". It is unframed.
This style could be best describ...
Category
2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cate Blanchett Icon III /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Actress Model Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Cate Blanchett Icon III"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
Reality
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.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Unspoken- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a boycouple
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tania Rivilis
Unspoken
63 x 45 cm
Oil on wood panel
First we can announce some wonderful news! 3 May 2022 Tania Rivilis did win the first price of the Royal Academy of Portraitpain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Heat Lightning Herald II" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Amanda Seckington's "Heat Lightning Herald II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a face transposed over a red and blue stormy skyscape.
Category
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Woman in Blue_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Portrait, Figurative_Bust
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman in Blue"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
31.5" x 31.5" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration from h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
A Little Wine
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is inspired by everyday life .... the struggles and the chaos. In the midst of it all, We have choices to take pleasure in little things too.
Painting
Ships in a well-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Red - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gazing at Lebanese American artist Sally K's floral portrait is consuming and empowering. Inspired by strong, feminine women, she creates pop-realistic paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic, Board
Yoko - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Change of Ownership
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Top Songbirds
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Omoge Awelewa (The Beauty Maiden)
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.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Splash
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Beach days are magical, and this little girl running and splashing in the surf was relishing her new-found freedom and expressing all the joy to be found on a summer day at the ocean...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lisa Palombo, "Big Red Flag Portrait #5" Secretariat Equine Acrylic Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This bold and patriotic equine impressionist painting, "Big Red Flag Portrait #5" by artist Lisa Palombo is a 24x18 acrylic sketch on watercolor paper. De...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Resilience
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Boy with Doves in Blue_2022_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Portrait
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Boy with Doves in Blue"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
62" x 42" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
"Wayfinding" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Wayfinding," is an original oil painting on 4 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Marion Lewis - 20th Century Acrylic, Bluebird
Located in Corsham, GB
A beautifully vibrant portrait showing a finely dressed woman delicately holding a bluebird to her chest. The artist has signed and inscribed to the reverse. The painting has been pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Self Possesed
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, Charcoal, Acrylic
The Most Talented David Bowie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Virginie Schroeder is an innovative artist based in Quebec, Canada. She puts in play lines, circles, and other geometric forms to create works with subjects that are not immediately ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Roses Are Not Only Red, " Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Roses Are Not Only Red" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with a rose and butterfly cast in a deep red glow.
Ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Boxing Ring. Boxed Knocked to Floor with 10 Count, Red and Black, Esquire Mag
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Illustration legend Bob Peak depicts a boxer that has fallen to the matt and is being given the 10-count by the referee. Peak captures that peak moment of drama and then exaggerates...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Navi, Chilling in Summer Shades
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is a quick reminder that people should not be afraid to use their voices. Your thoughts, opinions, and ideas are just as important as anybody else's. When you speak, sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pen
Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm
Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she ende...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Luxury Redefined, Richi Rich, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Richi Rich keeps toilet paper in his vault.
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British sense of humour,
he addresses stereotypes of modern society and his work, both playful and profound, stimulates us to question conventional social conceptions. JAY-C is a barometer responding to the world around us.
Having had his first solo exhibition in 2018, in the same year he did a collaboration with BoConcept on their iconic Imola chair...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art,
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Self Portrait of Jay-C
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Solace (2022), figurative portrait, floral, flowers, pink, street art, muralist
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Solace" (2022), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state
Figurative portrait, face, profile portraiture, hair, braids, fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Maravillosa (2020) by LNY, oil painting, figurative, indigenous healer portrait
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Maravillosa" (2020) by LNY (aka Layqa Nuna Yawar, formerly Lunar New Year)
Oil painting on canvas, figurative, indigenous healer portrait with succulent aloe plant with flowers
18 × 14 × .75 in
Oil Painting / Graffiti and Street Art / Figurative Art / Portrait / Human Figure / Landscape / Flora / Pastel Colors / Surrealistic / Cosmic art...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Regina - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Mosaic, If
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork unframed 60 x 50 x 3 cm
What are people's criteria for judging beauty? A beautiful face? A different existence? A feeling of pleasure? Or just follow what others say and make yourself feel the same way? People say the Winged Victory is very beautiful. Admirers come to the Louvre from all over the world. A lot of them just to take a picture to prove they saw it and say to friends, look, this is Winged Victory, how beautiful! Is it really that beautiful in her mind ? not necessarily. If it has head, do you still think it is beautiful? I am afraid many people will have a negative opinion. What is it that blurs the eyes of human beings and makes people's judgments of beauty vary widely?
The painting uses knife...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Fine Lady Caricatures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
proven...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This is a delightful piece of art. It expresses the hope of the common man amidst the everyday experiences that beset him. He is challenged to look beyond the current hardship and vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary 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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