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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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Dimitri Likissas - Candy Modulations #3
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Love at First Sight
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
2306G, original art, line drawing, nude, still-life, affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
2306G [2020]
original
Ink on paper
Image size: H:36.5 cm x W:28 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:36.5 cm x W:28 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink
Marilyn as Chérie Ledoux, Pop art, Still-life, Colourful art, Abstract, original
By Agent X
Located in Deddington, GB
Original
Digitally produced painting on Canvas
Image size: H:147 cm x W:147 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:147 cm x W:147 cm x D:1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu image...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Digital
Novus Amor, Novis Vita VII, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita VII, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working proc...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
The Rest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas
20 × 16 in
50.8 × 40.6 cm
This is a unique work.
This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Provenance: Owned by artist
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Super-b
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas
20 × 16 in
50.8 × 40.6 cm
This is a unique work.
This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Provenance: Owned by artist
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Social Distance
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas
20 × 16 in
50.8 × 40.6 cm
This is a unique work.
This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Provenance: Owned by artist
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Immigration
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas
20 × 16 in
50.8 × 40.6 cm
This is a unique work.
This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Provenance: Owned by artist
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Intimate Zahra Zeinali 21st Century art Contemporary Iranian art yellow portrait
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI
“Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Realistic detailed oil painting of a Yellow Labrador Retriever dog painting
Located in Charleston, US
Beth de Loiselle's "Loyal Companion”, a detailed realist dog painting of a yellow Labrador Retriever with a trompe l'oeil gold frame on a black backgro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Answer Within
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)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cards", Set of 4 Portraits King-Queen-Jack-Joker Figurative Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A set of portraits of four cards characters - "the king, the queen, the jack and the joker". Each of these four acrylic figurative cubist paintings measures 65 cm x 54 cm.
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of Woman in Yellow
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Woman in Yellow', oil on cardstock paper (circa 1970s), by Raymond Debiève. A cubist portrait of this lovely young woman at her window is ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Man on the Island w/ White Linen Towel_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic_Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Man on the Island with White Linen Towel"
Acrylic on Pink Linen
88.5 x 52.5 in. Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and cou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 101B - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 14.5/20”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 48 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 16/16"
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
"Memories", Neue Constructivist Abstract Character Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Russian nesting dolls…
This artwork is not framed.
Antony Squizzato is a talented French artist who likes to experiment with different styles and techn...
Category
2010s Constructivist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 101B - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 21.5/32”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 48 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 24/24”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
MODELO
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Fernando Fernandez. Canvas is sretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasona...
Category
2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sunday - Contemporary Art, Skull, Figurative Painting, 21st Century, Yellow
Located in Berlin, DE
Sunday, 2010
acrylic on canvas
27 9/16 H x 23 5/8 W in.
70 H x 60 W cm
The artwork was exhibited in the solo show "Christ" from 2011.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Novus Amor, Novis Vita VIII, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita VIII, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Allergies No.24, Contemporary Art, Abstract Expressionist, Portrait
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Zhixiang Wang
2017 M.F.A- University of Academia Albertina Belle Arti di Torino in Italy.
'Allergies' is a series of artworks that the artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man with Yellow Tie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ALEXANDER KREISEL
"MAN WITH YELLOW TIE"
OIL ON CANVAS BOARD, SIGNED
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN, C.1935
26 X 19.5 INCHES
FRAMED 29.5 X 23.5 INCHES
Alexander Krei...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mick Jagger Icon II /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Rolling Stones Rock Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Mick Jagger Icon II"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2022
Medium: O...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
SOAK UP ART WHEN YOU CAN
By Kunstrasen
Located in Aventura, FL
6-color screen print on 300gsm Somerset fine art paper. Hand signed and numbered by Kunstrasen. From the edition of 100.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenti...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Screen, Paper
The First Lady
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
The Slide
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas
20 × 16 in
50.8 × 40.6 cm
This is a unique work.
This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Provenance: Owned by artist
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bubble
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas
20 × 16 in
50.8 × 40.6 cm
This is a unique work.
This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Provenance: Owned by artist
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Twilight Sparkle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas
20 × 16 in
50.8 × 40.6 cm
This is a unique work.
This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Provenance: Owned by artist
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Musing, Figurative, Red, Yellow Color, Oil on Canvas Indian Master "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Dhiraj Chowdhury - Women with the Long Hair
12 x 12 inches (unframed size)
Proposed Framed Size : 20 x 20 inches
Oil on Canvas, 2012
( Rolled & Door Delivered )
Style of the Artist : He steadfastly believes that art has to be closely associated with life – with humanity, with humanism. And he comes through with this concept in his works – which are sometimes heart – reading, sometimes violent, brutal even chaotic, but always cogent, modern, and somehow loaded with both wisdom and hope.
About the Artist and his work :
Born : 1936, West Benagal, India.
Education and experience :
Graduated from Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, and Delhi Polytechnic (Delhi College of Art).
In 1996 retired as professor of Painting, College of Art, New Delhi University. Published books on art. Founded a number of art groups and initiated art activities.
Exhibitions :
Held over 100 solo shows in major cities of India and 20 one-man shows abroad in USA, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, and Sweden.
Participated in several group shows, national and international, including one in Geneva in 1979 with Miro, Dali, Calder, Cavalli, Pozzi, and Sugai. Received 15 awards, including the National Award from Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
Awards :
1950 - Received the Governors Medal, West Bengal.
1959 - Received award for his water colour painting, Govt. College of Art and Craft, Calcutta.
1961 - Received award for his graphic art, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi.
1964 - Award for his mural painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta.
1966 - Award for his Poster Design, All India Poster...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Girl In Yellow
Located in Corsham, GB
A serene portrait showing a young girl with dark hair and a softened gaze, wearing a yellow coat.
There is a label at the reverse with the artist's name and address, this has been p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
By Bruce Adams
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 includ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Meme Money 002: Goochi Sponge, ' by XVALA, Mixed Media Painting
By XVALA
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this mixed media 24"x24" painting, 'Meme Money 002: Goochi Sponge,' by XVALA, the artist colorfully plays with the 'Gucci' brand in tandem with the childhood cartoon series, SpongeBob. Spongebob, a 'Goochi Sponge' takes center stage with red dollar sign glasses in a palette of green, red, and gold on a lime green background.
XVALA's art illuminates the hidden fallout spawned from our high tech Internet age. His 'Fear Google' campaign exposed the decay of privacy and 'No Delete' used hacked nude celebrity photos to highlight loss of control over personal information. The artist has worked with trash from the homes of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and others, as well as dirt from the graves of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. The dirt appears in the New World Order collection as part of a pyramidal, 3D printed, living ant farm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Screen, Mixed Media
Female Face Icon IX (Claire) /// Contemporary Pop Street Art Painting Portrait
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Female Face Icon IX (Claire)"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
"Evoluzione antropologica di una testa" (anthropological evolution of a head)
Located in Milano, MI
This painting by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994) embraces the "figurative post-cubism" style.
In fact Salvador Aulestia was artistically grown during the maximum su...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Male Portrait
Located in Wien, 9
Oswald Oberhuber's art was rich in diversity of expression, as well as in the media he used. This work, coloured pencil and pencil on paper, shows a portrait of a man, reduced to few...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signatur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Angelo Colon
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Colon
2022
Signed
Binder and glitter on acrylic
36 x 24 inches (91.4 x 61 cm)
Angelo Colon was an actor and model known for his collaborations with Grace Jones. Angelo was...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Adhesive, Glitter
Woman, Yellow Shawl and Fan
Located in Greenwich, CT
An impressive and masterful depiction of a young woman with a fan. An American artist who studied and traveled in Europe and painted this painting before his return. It has its original frame which is magnificent. The frame has been regilded in th past 10 years. Vinton was abroad in the 1880s. The sitter gazes coyly over her fan in a gesture that ladies and gentleman of fin-de-siècle Europe would have understood to mean “wait for me,” and perhaps indicating her interest in a potential suitor. Vinton embarked on several trips to Europe—to Spain in 1882 with William Merritt Chase and Robert Blum, and to several different countries in 1888 following his marriage—which provided inspiration for a renewed style and subject matter. While in Spain with Chase and Blum, the three artists visited Madrid and Toledo; there, Vinton studied the masterfully tenebrous portraits of Velázquez, an influence that can be seen in Portrait with Yellow Shawl...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marsha P. Johnson
Located in New York, NY
Marsha P. Johnson
2022
Signed
Binder and glitter on acrylic
30 x 30 inches (73.2 x 76.2 cm)
Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) was a gay liberation activ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Adhesive, Glitter
White Line - Original Abstract Gestural Figurative Portrait Painting
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
As your gaze lingers on one of Sally K’s paintings, you notice how Sally’s brush strokes add playfulness and life to the canvas, incorporating unexpected images and shapes of flowers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Yellow Wallpaper
Located in Nashville, TN
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is an acrylic-on-canvas painting from a small series by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco. Done at the beginning of the Co...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales. From The Series "All About Eve"
By Annie Kevans
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi, free shipping to the continental US and a 14-day return policy.
Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales from the series “All About Eve...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Archival Paper
Bloom II
Located in Nashville, TN
"Bloom II" is a painting by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco using watercolor and acrylic on canvas. Francisco painted this piece live at the opening event for Chauvet Arts' ex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor
WOMAN 26, VENEZUELAN TURPIAL - Contemporary Realism / Portrait / Yellow Bird
By Jacob Hicks
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Jacob Hicks.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Bound by Love" by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
By Anne Siems
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper.
All archival materials.
Paper size: 44x44 inches
Silver wood Frame size: 50x50x1.25 inch
ANNE SIEMS
(b. 1965, Germany)
Artist Statement
I was born in Berlin, Germany. From 1969 to 1971 I lived near Buenos Aires, Argentina. My first extended stay in the US was as an exchange student in 1986. Then in 1991, after finishing my MFA in Berlin, I moved to Seattle, WA.
My work has moved from semi-abstract, room-filling plant and insect drawings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 48 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 40/40”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Cash rules everything around me, Street Art, Pop Art, Richie Rich
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Unique piece i
Richi Rich on a ladder is spraying money
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a d...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Incandescence
By Casey Childs
Located in Denver, CO
Incandescence, 2016
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 101B - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 35.5/47”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Durga, Indian Goddess, Tempera on Board, Red, Yellow by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Atin Basak
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atin Basak - Durga - 30 x 24 inches ( Unframed Size )
Tempera on Board
The work will be shipped unframed .
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : Atin Basak says that his rece...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
ROW BOAT (YELLOW)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed by the artist. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will b...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Face, Acrylic on Canvas, Brown, Red, Yellow by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Tapas Ghosal
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Tapas Ghosal - Face - 12 x 12 inches ( unframed size) )
Acrylic on Canvas
*** Framed ( packing :complimentary; shipping cost would need to be extra)
Style : In Hindu philosophy, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The King is dead long live the King II, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Portrait of Pink Panther in Basquiat Style
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a dist...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Andy
By Zane Fix
Located in East Hampton, NY
Andy Warhol print on rice paper
Original pop art by contemporary artist Zane Fix addressing modern subjects that are executed in the traditional Japanese woodblock (Ukiyo-e) style.
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Rice Paper
"Forest 1" by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
By Anne Siems
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper.
All archival materials.
Paper size: 24x18 inches
Suggested Frame size: 30x24x1.5 inch
ANNE SIEMS
(...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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.
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