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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Sisterhood 2 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women Africa Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Sisterhood is also about growth and transformation. As we go through life, we change and evolve as individuals, and our relationships with our sisters change and evolve with us. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait Of Lorenzo Suarez 5th Count Of Corona 16th Century - Antonis Mor
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Lorenzo Suarez, 5th Count Of Corona, 16th Century
School of Antonis Mor (1517-1577)
Large Spanish School Old Master portrait of Lorenzo Suarez, Count of Corona, oil on ...
Category
16th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jeune Fille en Blanc - 19th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Jeune Fille en Blanc’ by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942).
The painting – which depicts one of the artist’s favourite models Wanda Zielinska – is signed and dated 1896. It is lis...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of A Noblewoman. Attributed To Carlo Ceresa. About 1640.
By Carlo Ceresa
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a noblewoman.
Attributed to Carlo Ceresa. (1609 - 1679, Bergamo)
Oil on canvas.
Size cm 110x86,5cm with frame
Around 1640.
This portrait depicts a middle-aged woman with great realism, typical of Lombard and Bergamo painters in particular. Carlo Ceresa, probable author of this unsigned painting, had studied with Daniele Crespi...
Category
Mid-17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PARERA Portrait Spanish elegant woman fan Belle Epoque 20th
Located in PARIS, FR
Francisco PARERA Y MUNTE 1850 - after 1920 Oil on canvas 72 x 52 cm (79 x 68 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower right "F. Parera/ 1922" Beautiful antique oval frame
Francisco...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a British Officer
By Thomas Beach
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A very fine portrait of a British military officer signed and dated Thomas Beach 1774 in the lower left. This oil on canvas is presented in a period gilt frame and is ready to hang. ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Pre-Raphaelite Oil Portrait of a Young Woman in Pensive Thought
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School Circa 1900
Title: Portrait of a young woman, head and shoulders
Medium: oil on board, framed within an antique 'Florentine' gilt frame.
actual pain...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s "Purple Head" Mid Century Oil and Pastel Portrait Original Drawing
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Purple Head"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
13.75" x 17" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2008) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art Commission
Philadelphia Print...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Beth Dacey, "Cigarettes and Coffee", 40x30 Vintage Woman Cafe Oil Painting
By Beth Dacey
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Beth Dacey's "Cigarettes and Coffee" is a 40x30 oil painting on canvas of a woman in a yellow coat and white scarf on her head. Sitting at a diner booth, t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Young Woman Portrait Landscape Framed Oil Painting
By Leon Richet
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist landscape oil painting by Leon Richet (1847 - 1907). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 22 by 29 inches overall and 15 by 20 painting alone.
Category
1880s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - San Domingo en Soriano
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Como pueden apreciar, la obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo
Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un marco de alta época
El estado de la obra es bueno, solo comentar que la tela e...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Portrait -- Freckled Red Head Boy
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a red-haired boy with freckles by Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Rendered his signature style, this portrait is clean and vibrant. The subject is looki...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
State of Mind - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In a bid to find myself strength amidst an inferiority complex. I realized that, whether as an individual or as a nation, What we call strength and weakness, yellow, black and white...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
HM Queen Elizabeth II Portrait British Oil Painting signed oil on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Late HM Queen Elizabeth II
Edne G. Simpson, British 20th century
signed oil on canvas, unframed
painting: 24 x 20 inches
provenance: private col...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lady Portrait by Alexandre de Spengler - Oil on canvas 46x38 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Alexandre de Spengler (1893–1973) was a Swiss painter and engraver active in Geneva and Paris.
He is known for his land and seascapes, as well as...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
EARLY / MID 20TH CENTURY English School Oil Painting INTERIOR SELF PORTRAIT
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Unsigned (early / mid 20th Century) English School
TITLE: "Self Portrait In A Round Mirror"
SIGNED: appears unsigned
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 73cm x 62cm inc frame
CONDIT...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 18th Century British Oil Painting Mother & Infant Child in Adoration
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother & Child
British artist, late 18th century
after the painting by Sir Anthony van Dyke
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 20 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, Berkshire,...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Girl Holding Wool - British Edwardian female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful British Edwardian portrait oil painting is by noted and much exhibited female artist Maud Marion Wear. Wear trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London for five yea...
Category
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Very Large Draft Horse Standing in a Barn" Georg Wolf (German, 1882-1962)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“A Very Large Draft Standing Horse in the Stable”
Georg Wolf (Alsace/Germany 1882-1962)
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 21 1/2 (50 1/4 x 42 1/4 frame) inches
Estate stamp and inventory No. 17...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man – A Dramatic Study in Light and Expression
Located in Stockholm, SE
This compelling portrait, recently studied by Stéphane Pinta of the esteemed Cabinet Turquin in Paris, has been confidently attributed to the Austrian painter Matthäus (Matthias) Lod...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Let the Good Times Rolls" Pop Art Mixed Media Collage on Canvas Painting
By Jojo Anavim
Located in New York, NY
This piece depicts iconic Logos with vintage news paper clippings from the mid century. We find Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis lower left, with other Americana imagery through out. Celeb...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint, Canvas
Early German Realistic Military Portrait of a Man (Johann Ludwig-Mosley)
Located in Houston, TX
Realistic early German portrait painting of Johann Ludwig-Mosley wearing his various military awards. The back features further documentation about the man's life and service. Curren...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Don’t Turn Around — They’re Still Here
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting invites the viewer into a hushed interior filled with tension, memory, and quiet symbolism. A woman in a simple black dress stands with her back turned, unmoving—caugh...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
All the Kin Folk, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Boldy colored and stylized figures fill the scene. Their expressions exude anticipation as if waiting for a band to start or a train to arrive. The blue backg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Figurative, Portrait, Sunglasses, Pop, Sip in Style, Anja Van Herle_Acrylic
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
ANJA VAN HERLE
"Sip in Style"
Acrylic with Swarovski Crystals on Wood
42 x 42 inches
Born in Belgium in 1969, Anja Van Herle combines a European sense of high fashion in her artwor...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Sisterhood 3 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women Africa Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Sisterhood is also about growth and transformation. As we go through life, we change and evolve as individuals, and our relationships with our sisters change and evolve with us. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
19th Century English Victorian Portrait of Two Dogs in a Field Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Two Dogs
English artist, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 18 x 14 inches
Provenance: Private collection, England
Condition: The painting is in good condit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self-portrait oil on canvas painting
By Lluis Ribas
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
LLuis Ribas (1949) - Self-portrait - Oil canvas
Oil measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with a chef's Hat Belle Epoque
By René Guinand
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
81 x 68 x 3 cm
Woman with a chef's hat
This striking portrait, typical of Expressionism, depicts a woman in an introspective pose. Vigorous brushst...
Category
1910s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saint John the Baptist Paint Pasinelli 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Lorenzo Pasinelli (Bologna, 1629 - 1700)
Sermon of Saint John the Baptist Circa 1650.
Oil on canvas 115 x 154 cm With frame 136 x 174 cm
Provenance Milan, Porro 6 June 2006 ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Thru an Open Window... I Saw You" (2012) By John Tarantola, Nude Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Thru an Open Window... I Saw You" (2012) is a beautiful surrealist painting done with oil on panel, which depicts two nude male figures, one ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Prince Valdemar Christian of Schleswig-holstein of Denmark, signed L de Moni
Located in London, GB
The portrait of Prince Valdemar Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, painted after Justus Sustermans, captures the young prince in a moment of poised elegance. Depicted as a young man, t...
Category
Late 18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1986 Intimate Couple Portrait by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Tennessee, 9/12/86
Oil on canvas
34 x 43 3/4 x 1 in.
Titled and inscribed upper left
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Male Portrait 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Italian School of the 18th century.
The man, dressed in black with a white collar, poses in front of a shelf on which rest some objects: a crucifix, a bell, and an ink...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Victorian Signed Oil Painting Lady Artist Seated Sketching in Garden 1862
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Female Artist Sketching in the Garden
by Arthur Rankley (British, 1819-1872)
signed and dated 1862 with monogram
oil painting on canvas, in antique period gilt frame
canvas: 24...
Category
Mid-19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Beautiful Woman SALOMAN Gouache Danish Swedish painter 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Geskel SALOMAN
Tonder (Denmark) 1821 – Bastad (Sweden), 1902
Portrait of a woman with a book
Gouache on bone
8.8 x 8.5 cm (16.5 x 15.5 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right “G. Salom...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Virgin Mary and Child Jesus oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Virgin Mary and Child Jesus
Artist: Francisco Ribera Gómez (1907-1990)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31.9 x 25.6 inches (unframed)
Date of creation: 1942
Style: Classical Academicism with Renaissance influences
Description of the Artwork
The painting depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus in a tender and intimate moment. Warm colors, primarily reds, greens, and soft flesh tones, enhance the devotional nature of the scene. The use of golden halos, symbolizing sanctity, along with serene and realistic expressions, directly connects with the Renaissance pictorial tradition.
The style belongs to classical academicism, characterized by a balanced composition, meticulous drawing, and a masterful use of chiaroscuro to give volume and depth to the figures. The detailed rendering of the flesh tones and draperies amplifies the spirituality and solemnity of the piece, evoking the works of great masters such as Raphael and Murillo.
Artist's Biography
Francisco Ribera Gómez (1907-1990) was a prominent 20th-century Spanish painter known for his depictions of religious scenes, female portraits, and costumbrist works. Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Ribera Gómez received numerous accolades and was regarded as one of the great exponents of Spanish academicism. His work combines a rigorous technical foundation with luminous sensitivity and an idealized sense of beauty.
Influences and Comparisons
Francisco Ribera Gómez's work can be compared to other academic and religious artists who share a similar aesthetic:
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: In the emotional and approachable treatment of religious themes.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau: For the idealization of human figures and technical mastery.
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio): For harmonious composition and the depiction of the Virgin Mary.
Within the Spanish tradition, his style recalls Eduardo Rosales...
Category
1940s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coco the Clown in Top Hat and Bow Tie. Milan School, Italian Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Expressionist oil on canvas portrait of a clown by Italian artist Luciano Morterra. Signed bottom right and dated 1976 to the bottom left and presented in a period frame under glass....
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique naked woman French female reclining nude oil painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Beautiful antique reclining nude oil painting on canvas, signed in the top right by French artist Léonie Humbert-Vignot (1878-1960) This gorgeous nude on a relatively smooth canvas i...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Likeness of Jack London
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Likeness of Jack London
Wonderful portrait of a gentleman with a striking likeness to Jack London by Robert Alexander Graham (American, ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
John Lennon Icon VII /// Contemporary Street Pop Art The Beatles Portrait Paint
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "John Lennon Icon VII"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2024
Medium: ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Reclining Nude Woman with Cat Painting by Charles Burdick
By Charles Burdick
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burdick (1924 - 2016)
Untitled (Reclining Nude)
Oil on paper (?)
Sight: 7 x 10 1/4 in.
Framed: 14 x 16 1/4 x 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Burdick
Excellent midcentury style r...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Blue Kimono' , An antique painting, oil on canvas by Laura E. Brumm
Located in St. Albans, GB
Laura E. Brumm
The painting is beautifully signed and titled on the reverse with the artist's handwriting and address written on the original label.
Picture Size: 34 x 16" (86 x 40...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary hand painted acrylic on canvas pop art Disney red blue figurative
By Wizard Skull
Located in New York, NY
Hand painted acrylic on canvas - lives and works out of Brooklyn NY and is represented by Krause Gallery in Manhattan NY.
signed on edge of canvas
Pai...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1970 Haitian Mod Gold Painting Portrait of African American Woman Emilcar Simil
By Emilcar Similien (SIMIL)
Located in Surfside, FL
Feu de Joie
1970
hand signed and dated.
Measurements: 25.75 X 25.75 Framed. Image is 23.75 X 23.75
Emilcar Similien, known as Simil was born in 1944 in St. Marc. He finished elementary school in St. Marc and high school in Port-au-Prince. From 1965 until 1971 he studied at the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Port-au-Prince, where he took courses in painting, sculpture, and art history. Simil uses his images of women only as means for displaying patterns, color, and the sparkle of gold jewelry on black skin. He paints with acrylics on Masonite of any size. His surfaces are smooth and polished. Simil delights in beauty, elegance, and grace. This is done in a silhouette style reminiscent of Kara Walker.
Emilcar Simil (Similcar) is known for Acrylic painting in high colors of black skinned female figures. He is of the generation of Haitian artists that include Bernard Sejourne, Prospere Pierre-Louis, Levoy Exil, Louisiane Saint Fleurant, Henri Calixte, Paul Dieuseul, Laurent Casimir, Frantz Zephirin, Denis Smith, Philton Latortue, Philome Obin, Préfète Duffaut, Fernand Pierre...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
"The Second Coming" (2024) by Morgan Cameron, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “The Second Sighting” (2024) is an oil painting on panel that depicts a surreal landscape that has a wolf with piercing eyes standing in the moonlight.
A...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Woman with Blue Scarf" Parisian Post-Impressionist French Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a woman wearing a blue scarf around her head against a green background. The bright colors used and quick brush strokes are what makes t...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Contemporary Modernist Naïve Style Portrait Oil Painting - Welsh Lady in Purple
Located in Bristol, GB
WELSH LADY IN PURPLE
Size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A small and engaging portrait composition , painted in a naïve style in oil onto panel, by British artist Ma...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Secret - Contemporary Expressive Figurative Oil Painting, Boy Portrait
Located in Salzburg, AT
The inspiration for Daniel Wimmer’s art consistently stems from the human body. He is particularly fascinated by the beautiful colors of the skin and is constantly searching for intr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Horse Painting: "Horse at Stable with Hay" -Julius Paul Junghanns (1876-1958)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Painting
"Horse at Stable with Hay"
Julius Paul Junghanns (German, 1876-1958)
Oil on canvas on board (marouflé )
20 1/4 x 14 (25 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Attrib. Filippo Marantonio (1863-1937) - Framed Italian Oil, Portrait of a Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful 20th Century Italian school portrait depicting a older lady dressed in a chequered mustard coat and blue head scarf. Well presented in a simp...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Quellinus Allegory Vanity Paint Oil on canvas old master 17th Century Flemish
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Erasmus Quellinus II (Antwerp 1607 - 1672)
Vanitas (as an Allegory of the Vanity of Life or of Youth)
Oil painting on canvas - cm. 121 x 84, in the frame cm. 135 x 98
The work is a...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couple #4- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a nude dancing male and female
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Daniela Astone
Couple #4
50 x 40 cm
Oil on wood
Daniela Astone works and lives in Florence.
For years she was a teacher on the famous Florence Art Academy. Since 2022 she fulltime works as a painter. Her works are all around the world in great collections.
For our exhibition 'A Female Gaze' Daniela Astone made a series of paintings where the female aspect of her life is the main subject.
This series contains a series of seven paintings where you see a dancing couple. Female- male couples and male-male/ female-female couples.
The Currator of Galerie Bonnard says about the paintings by Daniela Astone:
The classical structure and narrative paintings show a technique that is special. Her style is virtuoso and her subjects narrative. The keys are loose and subtle. For this artist, standing in front of a painting means...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French art painting by Alfred Smith - Bordeaux, a Tramway, collector piece.
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Minor retouching on the upper part, original canvas with frame.
Currently Under Restoration by Museum specialist for Alfred Smith paintings....
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Reverie" by Dave Seeley, Ascending Nude Female
Located in Denver, CO
Dave Seeley's "Reverie" (2023) is a captivating original oil on canvas painting. The nude female figure floats gracefully, her elongated pose conveying weightlessness and freedom. Se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Peter Skeolan mid 19th Century English silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A finely detailed silhouette a Victorian gentleman
Peter Skeolan (1815-1871)
Portrait of a gentleman, profile turned to the left, wearing coat and cravat
Watercolour with gold highlighting on paper/card
Stencilled with artist's details to the reverse
3¼ x 2¾ inches, oval, without the frame
5½ x 4¾ inches with the frame
Peter Skoelan the son of Stephen Skoelan was born in Ireland in 1815. During his early career he worked as an itinerant miniature portrait painter and profilist, possibly as early as the 1830s. The 1841 census shows us that he was working in Leeds, his stated occupation was painter, aged 25. He was lodging with Thomas Lacy, a Tailor. By this time he had married and had a son and daughter...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Extra-Large Dutch Contemporary Abstract Portrait By Hans Bouman
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
An exquisite contemporary painting by Dutch artist, Hans Bouman.
In this painting Bouman creates a captivating interplay of colors and forms that gives rise to an enigmatic abstract face that invites interpretation and contemplation. This captivating large-scale abstract painting is a harmonious blend of warm white, earthy tones, invigorating orange, and calming blue hues.
Hans Bouman, born in the Netherlands in 1951, embarked on his artistic journey at the Amsterdam Graphic School and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Fine Arts. During the early 1980s, Paris became his haven of inspiration, where his debut in galleries marked the onset of an international presence that continues to flourish.
Bouman's artistic evolution is characterized by cycles of creativity, but it is his larger-than-life hieratic heads that he is renown for. These remarkable pieces pay homage to influences as diverse as the Moai sculptures of Easter Island, the intricate masks of Africa...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
19th century English portrait of a White/grey hunter in a stable
Located in Woodbury, CT
English 19th century portrait of a White / Grey hunter in a stable.
Charles Towne was born in Wigan in 1763. He was trained as a coach painter, and by ...
Category
1820s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Portrait Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
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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The ceramist, designer and gentleman farmer tells us about the collection of antique dog art he has spread across a New York City apartment and a Greek Revival farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.
This Wiener Werkstätte Master Made Everything into Art
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.
A Rare Q&A with American Legend Alex Katz
On the eve of a new exhibition just north of New York City, the nonagenarian contemporary-art icon talked with ‘Introspective’ about his long and ongoing career, the development of his signature style and his rather malleable definition of realism.