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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Artist: Roxanna Melendez
Mixed Media Portrait on Canvas -- Huracana
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media portrait shows a Caribbean woman bearing red on her face and surrounded by images of daily rural life. There is a maroon rooster, a turquoise shack, and green palm f...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas

Mayor of San Juan, P.R., Portrait -- Doña Felisa
Located in Troy, NY
This is a portrait of Felisa Rincón de Gautier (Doña Fela) whose terms in office as Mayor of San Juan lasted from 1947-1969. The painting captures Doña Fela's iconic gestures: her ever present fans, in this case white with red floral embellishments, her Spanish coif, and a mahogany wicker chair. In the painting Dona Fela wears a violet dress...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Mixed Media on Canvas Self Portrait Painting -- Se Parece a Mi?
Located in Troy, NY
This self-portrait of the artist, Roxanna Melendez, is in mixed media and oil paint on canvas. The painting shows several personal details about Melendez, such as the use of Cafe Bus...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Oil on canvas Painting -- Le Chat Plus Grande
Located in Troy, NY
Although this painting of oil on canvas is named after the "Cat" (le Chat), the painting mainly depicts a woman sweeping with a broom. The cat, a popular tabby painted in great detai...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting with Latino Theme -- La Vidente y Vendedora de Cigarros
Located in Troy, NY
This oil painting shows a figure of a woman most often associated with Cuban folk life. The title of the painting may be translated as the "The Seer and Seller of Cigars," indicating...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting on Canvas -- The "Three" of Life
Located in Troy, NY
In this oil painting on canvas, three generations of Latina women stand in front of a maroon tree-trunk with a pre-adolescent girl between the mother and grandmother. The grandmother...
Category

1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mixed Media Painting -- Wishful Dream
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media painting shows the aspirations of a young woman who sees endless possibilities on the horizon. Depicted on a blue sky in the center is a fashionable young woman with sun glasses, a red bra, and purple hair. To her right is the outline of a younger girl playing a brown flute. On the other side is a doll in orange who appears to be carrying a girl painted in green. In the forefront, a bicycle and a motor bike...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

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[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Edgar Robinson, Physical Culturalist, c. 1931
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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.

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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