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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Jenness Cortez, "Secretariat as a Stallion, Claiborne Farm", Equine Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This rare original equine painting by renown artist, Jenness Cortez, features a stately portrait of legendary racehorse Secretariat standing in the lush verdant grass at Claiborne Farm. Bathing in the warmth of an afternoon sun, Secretariat's copper-colored beauty is captured perfectly.
Titled, “Secretariat as a Stallion Claiborne Farm”, this beautiful oil painting measures 18.5 x 24.5 and is framed in an ornate gold frame, finished with a commemorative plaque.
Secretariat is widely considered to be the greatest racehorse of all time and the most recognizable name in thoroughbred racing.
Big Red, as he is most often affectionately referred, became America’s Horse after his historic Triple Crown win in 1973, winning the Belmont Stakes by an unimaginable 31 lengths (in world record time) in what stands today as the single greatest horseracing performance ever.
About Jenness Cortez:
Jenness Cortez is a distinguished figure in the contemporary revival of classical realist painting.
She was born in Indiana and exhibited a very early talent for art. As a teenager, she took private lessons with Antonius Raemaekers...
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jenness Cortez, "Secretariat, Winning the Belmont at 31 Length", Original Oil
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This rare original equine painting by renowned artist, Jenness Cortez, features legendary racehorse Secretariat sprinting towards the finish line at the 1973 Belmont race, winning by an incredible and historical 31 lengths.
Titled, “Secretariat, Winning the Belmont at 31 Length”, this beautiful oil painting measures 16 x 24.5 and is framed in an ornate warm silver and gold frame, complete with a commemorative plaque.
Secretariat is widely considered to be the greatest racehorse of all time and the most recognizable name in thoroughbred racing.
Big Red, as he is most often affectionately referred, became America’s Horse after his historic Triple Crown win in 1973, winning the Belmont Stakes by an unimaginable 31 lengths (in world record time) in what stands today as the single greatest horseracing performance ever.
About Jenness Cortez:
Jenness Cortez is a distinguished figure in the contemporary revival of classical realist painting.
She was born in Indiana and exhibited a very early talent for art. As a teenager, she took private lessons with Antonius Raemaekers...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed French Impressionist Antique Oil Portrait of Man with Beard Paris Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: signed French School, Bouchet (19th-20th Century)
Title: Portrait of a bearded man
Medium: oil on board
Size: 11 x 8.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, Fran...
Category
1890s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Figure Study" Joseph Solman, Blue and Sepia, Pastel Colors Seated Study
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Solman
Figure Study, circa 1959-60
Signed with initials lower left
Gouache on Racing Form newspaper
Sight 9 x 7 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Montecito, California
Pr...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Newsprint
Gota Lejon, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Göta Lejon, 1746.
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 15 x 21.75 inches
Superb oil painting by the well lis...
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Smiling Woman
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Smiling Woman', oil on board, by Peter Robert Keil (1983). A cheerful look on the painting's subject puts a smile on the face of the viewer as well. Her beautiful blue eyes express a contentedness suggesting life is good...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Dog Painting; Cavalier King Charles Gustav Lorincz (Austrian, 1855-1931)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting of a Cavalier King Charles
Gustav Lorincz (Austrian, 1855-1931)
Oil on panel, signed
9 1/4 x 6 3/4 (13 3/4 x 11 1/4 frame) inches
Gustav Lorincz was a noted painter of animal subjects, mostly portraiture of dogs and cats...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Maria Vittoria Queen of Portugal - Italian Old Master oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Italian Old Master portrait oil painting is by Domenico Maria Sani. Painted circa 1732 the sitter is of Maria Anna Vittoria (1718 - 1788), daughter of Philip V and Elisabetta Farnese, who in 1729 married Joseph prince of Brazil and king of Portugal...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Marelen Dietrich
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the B...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kerstin McGregor (1962-2012) - Contemporary Oil, Martini Girl
Located in Corsham, GB
An original work by contemporary artist Kerstin McGregor (1962-2012). Unsigned. Acquired with a collection of signed works. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Italian Renaissance Gentleman Portrait of a Tailor Antique Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Tailor
Continental School, 19th century
after the earlier Renaissance work by Giovanni Battista Moroni (16th century).
oil on canvas laid over board, framed
Framed: 16 x 12 inch...
Category
19th Century Renaissance Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Black Boy
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
FREE Shipping Worldwide
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 Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Cupid Portrait Parmigianino Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Follower of FRANCESCO MAZZOLA, known as IL PARMIGIANINO (Parma, 1503 - Casalmaggiore, 1540)
Cupid Carving His Bow
(as the triumph of love and desire over reason and knowledge)
Oil o...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gypsy girl, 1947. Oil on canvas, 34x37 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Jadviga Žilvinska (1918-2010) was born in Tallinn.
She grew up in Liepāja, where her great interest in art began and strengthened, which led the young artist to study at the Art Academy of Latvia. During her studies at the Academy, she studied with K. Ubāns, V. Tone and J. Liepiņš, and defended her diploma thesis under the guidance of L. Liberts. Later on, she devoted her entire life to art, working at the Liepāja School of Fine Arts and as a portraitist at the "Māksla" combine.
She had four favourite themes: landscapes, portraits, flowers and sacred painting. Her works have lyricism and inner harmony. In the portraits, we see not only the outer form of a person, but the artist allows us to look into the very essence of a person - it is likely that the models themselves often saw something new and bright in themselves through the artist's vision.
The works are executed in various techniques - tempera, oil, pastel and watercolour.
CV:
1938 - Graduated from the Liepaja Secondary School of Applied Arts, Department of Decorative Painting.
1943 - Latvian Academy of Art, L. Liberts Figurative Painting Workshop with her diploma work "At the Artist's"
1946-1948 - teacher of painting and drawing at Liepāja Fine Arts High School.
1948-1966 - portraitist at the "Māksla" combine
Participated in exhibitions since 1948.
Member of the Artists' Union since 1966.
Solo exhibitions in Riga, Jelgava, Sigulda (1972); Riga (1975; 1978; two in 1981; 1986; 1994), Jurmala (1979).
Works exhibited in Latvia as well as abroad (Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Finland, Venezuela, Germany, Hungary).
The works are located in:
"Portrait of Cardinal Julian Vaivoda", 1983, in the Vatican Museum in Rome
"Portrait of Pope John Paul II, 1982, in the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Curia of Riga
The altarpieces "The Heart of Jesus" and "Our Lady of Fatima", the paintings "John the Baptist" and "The Holy Family" , all from the late 1960s, in the Church of St Mary Magdalene...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Attrib. Robert De Quin - Mid 20th Century Oil, Man in a Suit
Located in Corsham, GB
An expressive, unfinished oil study depicting a smartly dressed gentleman. The artist uses gestural brushstrokes and a muted palette to loosely capture the man's sharp features. Unsi...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sylvette in Vallauris, 1954
Located in Castle Cary, GB
Lydia Corbett, née Sylvette David was born in Paris in 1934. At the age of nineteen Lydia had moved to Vallauris in the south of France, where she met Pablo Picasso in 1954 and was t...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish grape picker oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lafuente - Grape harvester - Oil on canvas
Spanish school signed "Lafuente".
Oil measures 61x50 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Framed Dimensions: 23" x 19"
Signature: Signed
Edition: Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady in Green Dress & Pearl Jewellery c.1660 Painting John Wright
By John Michael Wright
Located in London, GB
In this exquisite work, painted around the time of the Great Fire of London in 1666, a beautiful young woman is wearing a green dress over a white chemise and a russet-coloured scarf...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Count Your Rainbows, Not Your Thunderstorms -21st Century, Contemporary Portrait
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique; it is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Laylahel Dei" Cusco School Style Depiction of an Angel by Martha Ochoa
By Martha Ochoa
Located in Austin, TX
By Martha Ochoa
Oil on Canvas
Canvas Size: 48" x 36"
Framed Size: 58.75" x 47"
This lovely painting by Martha Ochoa is from the Cusco tradition. The Cusco School was an artistic tra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed 19th Century Oil - Portrait of a Lady with a Spray of Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
This wonderful 19th-century portrait captures a young woman in a delicate white dress with a beaded necklace, sat in the garden with a spray of coneflowers. The oil portrait has been...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Boy with Donkey, William Weintraub
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: William Weintraub (1926)
Title: Young Boy with Donkey
Year: 1962
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 33 x 25.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Set of Eight Apostles, Portrait of Men, Head Studies, Flemish School, Van Dyck
Located in Greven, DE
Set of Eight Apostles
each oil on panel
each framed (different as some are golden, some are not, please view the photos)
So far there is no certain attribution. The style of the ser...
Category
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
La Vielle Ame (The Old Soul) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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.
About Artist
Top...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Just Keep the Connection
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork elegantly blends classic and contemporary elements, depicting a young woman in a stylish black outfit holding a phone to her ear. She stands against an endless blue sky...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Wood Nymph" (2018) By John Tarantola, Nude Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Wood Nymph" (2018) is a beautiful realist painting done with oil on panel, which depicts an athletic nude male figure standing in a forest, p...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Very Large Mid 19th Century Victorian Portrait English Gentleman Seated Leather
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Victorian English Gentleman
Portrait of a Man seated in a leather chair, holding a letter in his hand.
oil on canvas , framed
framed: 41 x 33 inches
canvas: 36 x 28 inches
prove...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fine 17th Century Dutch Oil Painting on Wood Panel Horse & Figures Resting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Resting Place
Dutch School, mid 17th century
oil painting on board, unframed
canvas: 7 x 9 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Holy Family Giovannino Bronzino Paint Oil on table 16th Century Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Agnolo di Cosimo, known as 'il Bronzino' (Monticelli of Florence, 1503 – Florence, 1572)
The Holy Family with San Giovannino
Oil on table (120 x 90cm. - I...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
AT THE BEACH - Modern Women Portrait, Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Marzena Ślusarczyk
Located in Salzburg, AT
The patient waiting for Bresson's “decisive moment” characterizes the pictures of the young Polish painter Marzena Slusarczyk. The compositions of her works have the magic of a successful photography. Often with a powerful neckline, they use expressive foreshortened perspectives and unusual versions and they take us into an intimate dimension of the women portrayed.
However, Slusarczyk's pictures are mainly emotions captured on canvas, and this is what makes her works so special. The women she paints perform normal, banal activities in everyday life. But they are the key to reading the feelings of the female figures lost in thought. The lack of clarity in the artist's pictures allows the viewer to make their own interpretations. As the painter herself emphasizes, the aim of playing with the audience is to awaken the viewer's imagination and imagination so that they notice the seemingly invisible.
This mystery and the unspoken are reminiscent of the paintings by Michelangelo Caravaggio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Hunt Slonem "Georgios" White Diamond Dust Bunnies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Georgios" White Diamond Dust Bunnies
A family of four rabbits gestured in black on a white Diamond Dust background in a vintage frame
Unframed: 16 x 14 inches
Framed: 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass, Resin, Oil, Panel
Antique French Fauvist 1920's Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Fashionable Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
French School, fauvist style
indistinctly signed
circa 1920's period
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very ...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Wonderland" (2024) By Zoa Ace, Original Mixed Media Collage on Wood
By Zoa Ace
Located in Denver, CO
Zoa Ace's (US based) "Wonderland" is an original, handmade mixed media collage on wood that is unframed and ready to hang.
About the Artist:
"My work is figurative and deals primari...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media
Lady Eleanor Dundas - Old Master 18C Scottish art oil painting female portrait
By Henry Raeburn (circle)
Located in London, GB
A fine large and stunning Scottish Old Master portrait oil painting on canvas portrait in good condition which depicts Lady Eleanor Dundas in a white dress set against an open landsc...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish old woman oil on canvas painting Andalusia Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jesus Villar (1930-2015) - Andalusia - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 81x65 cm.
Frame measurements 98x82 cm.
The painter Jesús Villar was born in 1930, h...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Catherine De Mayenne, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat (1585-1618)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Catherine De Mayenne, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat (1585-1618), 16th Century
workshop of Juan PANTOJA DE LA CRUZ (1553-1608)
Large circa 1600 portrait of Catherine ...
Category
16th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Large Signed American Modernist Interior Scene Portrait Oil Painting
By Sidney Gross
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed portrait oil painting by Sidney Gross (1921 - 1969). Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Square - Painting by Francesco Settimj - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on cardboard.
Very good condition except for some minor losses on edges.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Reflective Moments" (2025) by Derek Harrison, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Reflective Moments" by Derek Harrison (US based) is an original oil painting that depicts the back of a nude model in front of a mirror.
Derek Harrison is a representational paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Some Ambiguous Words- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a Young Man
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tania Rivilis
Some Ambiguous Words
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Early 20th Century Society Portrait , Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century oil on board society portrait by French artist Rose Teitgen-Obeurer. Signed top left.
A charming and characterful portrait of a fine lady...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
George Byng Later 7th Viscount Torrington
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Robert Frain active 1829-1877, was a Scottish painter. There is very little biographical information regarding Frain, however he was active in the first quarter to the third quarter ...
Category
1820s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Young Woman Wearing a Copper Scarf', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Brittany, Skagen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'W. Schwartz' for Walter Erwin Otto Schwartz (Danish, 1889-1958), dated 1935 and inscribed 'Skagen' lower right.
A substantial, psychologically penetrating portrait of a young woman with braids, shown dressed in a charcoal wool coat and wearing a copper-colored neck-scarf. The self-possessed sitter stands and meets the viewers gaze directly, proving herself an unusually confident subject for this noted Danish Modernist.
Nephew of the Danish academic artist, Frans Schwartz, Walter Schwartz grew up surrounded by the painters who frequented the Danish art colony on the picturesque island of Skagen. Walter first studied formally (1904-8) with Michael Ancher...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Belle Epoque Beauty - 19th Century Oil Painting French Flower Girl Portrait
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Young Beauty holding a Red Rose’ by Étienne Adolphe Piot (1831-1910). The painting is signed by the artist and hangs in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame.
Academy Fine Paintings...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Italian Realist Oil Painting Portrait of Two Children in a Landscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare antique Italian portrait of two children posed inside a villa against a landscape.
This unsigned but beautiful work comes house in contemporary frame added to the work to e...
Category
1890s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Early Antique American School Fauvist Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Very finely painted and a rare fauvist palette. No signature found.
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Does It Get Better? - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Africa, Oil
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
“Does it Get Better?” is a hauntingly beautiful question that echoes the collective longing of humanity. It's an emotional inquiry that arises from the depths of our darkest moments ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian men portrait
By Giovanni Maria delle Piane dit Mulinaretto (Genoa 1670 - Monticelli d´Ongina 1745)
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Giovanni Maria DELLE PIANE, known as IL MULINARETTO
(Genoa, 1660 – Monticelli d'Ongina, 1745)
Portrait of a man
Oil on oval canvas
H. 108 cm; L. 83 cm
Provenance: Nino Ferrari Colle...
Category
1740s Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Curse - Female w/ Sunflowers, Ode to Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Lady Shalott"
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
This is my take on the classic Pre-Raphaelite painting subject and poem “The Lady of Shalott,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is also inspired by the John Everett Millais painting, “The...
Category
2010s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Mother and Daughter"
By Luigi Gatti
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
The main feature of his work is the overlap between "serious" painting and images drawn from the world of advertising, illustration and comic strips. Pictorial influences range from ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Kaori" (2022) by Kristen Santucci, Oil Painting, Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
Kristen Santucci's "Kaori" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a dark haired, asian female in a patterned blue kimono.
Kristen grew up in Greenbelt, Maryland. She was always creative as a child and had an interest in art, but it wasn’t until she moved to Florida in 1988 and worked as a picture framer that she started painting.
Florida’s sunsets...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Copper
Boy with Anemones
Located in London, GB
'Boy with Anemones', oil on cardstock paper, by Raymond Debiève (1965). Here the artist paints a young boy having his breakfast with a beautiful bouquet of an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Human Faces Abstract Collection - HFC 29 - Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Faces Abstract Collection by Irena Orlov
Introducing "Abstract Cubist Portrait - Human Faces Abstract Collection - HFC 29" - Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print
"Abstract Cubist ...
Category
2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
Women with Jugs oil on canvas painting Andalusia Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jesus Villar (1930-2015) - Women - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 68x98 cm.
Frame measurements 85x117 cm.
The painter Jesús Villar was born in 1930, he has lived and painted in both...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hinton Gibbs, Early 19th Century English Victorian silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A finely detailed silhouette of a Victorian gentleman.
Hinton Gibbs (1783-1839)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust length, turned to the left, wearing coat and cravat
watercolour, revers...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Glass
Madonna with Holy Child and St. John
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Madonna with Holy Child and St. John is a masterful depiction of a tender religious scene, capturing the sacred relationship between the Virgin Mary, the infant Jesus, and St. John t...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Modern British portrait of a Bassett Hound in oils
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful late 20th century portrait of a Bassett Hound dog.
Painted in England circa 1996 the artist was capable of painting the most amazing character in this portrait.
Oils on...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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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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.