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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Artist: Jérome Romain
Les Dormeurs
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint painting, title : Les dormeurs 146 cm x97 cm France, 2013
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Bataille de Fibonacci
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives in Montpelier, France Classic Painting for Contemporary History He defines his painting as " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas paintings are born ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Se faire les ongles
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives in Montpelier, France Classic Painting for Contemporary History He defines his painting as " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas paintings are born ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Apéro Vermeil
Located in Paris, FR
Paint oil on canvas. Apéro vermeille 50 cm x 73 cm 2016
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

NYC Biz
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives in Montpelier, France Classic Painting for Contemporary History He defines his painting as " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas paintings are born ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

NYC Kid
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives and works in Montpelier, France He defines his painting as Classic Painting for Contemporary History " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas painting...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Dj Princesse
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives and works in Montpelier, France He defines his painting as Classic Painting for Contemporary History " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas painting...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Apéro Bière
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on Canvas Apero bière 50 cm x 73 cm France, 2016.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Hallow Taxi
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives and works in Montpelier, France He defines his painting as Classic Painting for Contemporary History " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas painting...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fu.. me
Located in Paris, FR
oil painting on canvas, Fu.. me 92 cm x 65 cm France, 2010
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Grande Parade
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives and works in Montpelier, France He defines his painting as Classic Painting for Contemporary History " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas painting...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Homme allongé
Located in Paris, FR
France, 2013 Oil Paint- Lying man Homme allongé
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Bataille de Fibonacci
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives in Montpelier, France Classic Painting for Contemporary History He defines his painting as " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas paintings are born ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Apéro Vermeil
Located in Paris, FR
Paint oil on canvas. Apéro vermeille 50 cm x 73 cm 2016
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Les Dormeurs
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint painting, title : Les dormeurs 146 cm x97 cm France, 2013
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dj Princesse
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives and works in Montpelier, France He defines his painting as Classic Painting for Contemporary History " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas painting...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

L'Opération
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives and works in Montpelier, France He defines his painting as Classic Painting for Contemporary History " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas painting...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Bataille de Fibonacci
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives in Montpelier, France Classic Painting for Contemporary History He defines his painting as " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas paintings are born ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Se faire les ongles
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives in Montpelier, France Classic Painting for Contemporary History He defines his painting as " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas paintings are born ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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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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