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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Figurative Oil Painting On Canvas Blue Mixed Media And Textures. Transfiguration
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Figurative painting with animals, mixed media, on a blue background. Figurative animal magic in blue. A shared dream where you and I are one with them. Everything is connected: the v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
'Study of a Moor', Post-Impressionist Figural Oil, Othello, Moroccan, Tunisian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
American school, Signed indistinctly lower right and dated 1988.
A bravura, psychologically-penetrating oil study of a man, shown wearing a turban and contrasted against a scumbled ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Oil Couple in Green Lake Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School early 20th century, signed 'Guy Rose' to the lower left corner.
Title: Couple in a rowing boat on a lake within a landscape; v...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,362 Sale Price
30% Off
The Boating Party near Giverny, oil on canvas, signed lower right
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Sold at Christie's in 1978, bought by the historian Friedrich Gorissen (1912-1993), director of the Koekkoek Museum.
Heins Burgers (1834-1899) was a student of Jozef Isr...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School, 17th Century, 'Portrait of the Marquise de Grugieres', oil canvas
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
French school, 17th Century
Portrait of the Marquise de Grugieres
Oil on canvas
26.1/4 x 21.5/8 in. (66.7 x 54.8 cm.)
In a gilded composite frame, later production (possible early 1...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circle of Jean Honore Fragonard (1732–1806) A Painting of Three Putti and Fire
Located in Queens, NY
Circle of Jean Honore Fragonard (French 1732–1806) An Exceptional Painting of Three Putti and Fire, circa 1795.
Masterfully painted in the late ...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$47,500 Sale Price
50% Off
Artist Self Portrait-Modernist Mid-Century Chicago Modernist Oil Painting.
Located in Marco Island, FL
Chicago Modernist, William Schwartz, painted this exceptional self-portrait in 1926. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago shortly after emigrating to the United States from Ru...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Detailed Contemporary Impressionist Train Station Signed and Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Super detailed French impressionist train depot painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16"H x 20"L.
Category
1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Thoughtful woman on the terrace of the bar oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frederic Cabanas (1954) - Pitussi - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 92x65 cm.
Without frame.
Frederic Cabanas
Multifaceted artist, painter, sculptor, musician, photographer, wr...
Category
1980s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,219 Sale Price
36% Off
"Demure Longing" (2024) By Suchitra Bhosle, Original Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Demure Longing" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a young woman looking off into the distance while resting in a doorway.
About the Artist:
Such...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
woman with hat in profile oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Alexandre Siches (1921-2009) - Woman in profile - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 73x54 cm.
Frameless.
Alexandre Siches Piera (1921-2009)
Catalan painter with an innate capacity for dra...
Category
1980s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,440 Sale Price
25% Off
Regattas day (a tribute to Seurat). Large format Riverside scene with figures.
By Fabio Hurtado
Located in Segovia, ES
Reggatas day (tribute to Seurat), by Fabio Hurtado, is an oil painting on canvas which was created in 1995 and which obtained the Honorary Medal at the C...
Category
1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orientalist "Moorish Soldier Holding a Rifle" Manuel Garcia Hispaleto
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Moorish Soldier Holding a Rifle"
Manuel Garcia Hispaleto (Spanish, 1836-1898)
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left "MGHispaleto"
Original wood frame with gilded stucco
18 3/4 x 12 1/2 (33 1/2 x 26 frame) inches
Manuel García Hispaleto, originally Manuel García y Martínez (22 November 1836, Seville -26 December 1898, Madrid) was a Spanish painter known for portraits and costumbrista (genre) scenes. His brother, Rafael García...
Category
1850s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Portrait of a woman, circa 1950, oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Jacques BERLAND (1918-1999)
Portrait of a woman, circa 1950
Oil on canvas
34 × 25 cm
A figurative painter of the Paris School, Jacques Berland's work was brought back into the limel...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of African American Family
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This impressionist painting by Virginia artist Walter Biggs captures a moment of quiet strength and familial connection. A seated man rests outside with his hat in hand, while a youn...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young woman in profile by Pierre-Victor Galland
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre-Victor Galland (1822 - 1892)
Young woman in profile
Oil on canvas
39.3 x 31.9 cm
65.2 x 55 x 7 cm with frame
Artist's sale's stamp (monogram) top left (L. 1197)
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Omnia Sceletus" mixed media painting by Kent Williams
Located in Chicago, IL
Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, and reliable handling. While standard parcel services are an option, the defau...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Space Between" - Expressive Mixed Media Figurative Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Jon Wassom’s "The Space Between" is a striking mixed media painting on panel, measuring 16 x 12 inches. This evocative figurative work merges expressive brushwork with geometric abst...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Gentleman Blue & Cloak, Portrait of Lady, Fine Carved Gilded frames
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Gentleman with Blue Cloak and Portrait of a Lady in Russet Dress c.1697
Thomas Murray (1663-1735)
These fascinating portraits are exquisite examples of portraiture in ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Her Innocence - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In a world that often seeks to diminish the light of innocence, this artwork embodies the strength and resilience of those who remain steadfast in their beliefs. The subject of this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Julian Coming Out of the Water Male Figure Painting
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
A queer figurative painting of a shirtless man coming out of the ocean by Mark Beard.
Signed in red, u.l.
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Portrait of a Young Gentleman English circa 1860's Period Framed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th century English school
Portrait of a young gentleman (a scholar?) in dress suit
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 21 x 19.5 inches
canvas: 14 x 1...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Necklace" Oil on board by Telopa
Located in Carmel, CA
Telopa, the father and son of artists, paints women in an elegant Mannerist style that combines classic beauty and mythological, symbolic allegory.
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$4,125 Sale Price
25% Off
French 1930s Art Deco Society Portrait, Lady with a Diamond Earring.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Art Deco, oil on canvas, society female portrait by Dembinkski (probably Anton J.) Signed, dated and located (Paris) bottom left. In later wood and gilt frame.
A charming and...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,680 Sale Price
22% Off
"Untitled" - Oil Painting of Nude Reclining Female Figure
By Rebecca Venn
Located in Denver, CO
Rebecca Venn's (US based) "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas paper that depicts a nude female model laying on her back.
This is ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"PESCADO" Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
By Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"PESCADO" Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Medium: Oil stick & aerosol on paper
Size framed: 43.5" x 33.5" inch
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Isaac Pelayo is a head on crash ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Spray Paint
Portraits of a man and Woman Circa 1850-1860 Original Oil on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portraits of a man and Woman Circa 1850-1860 Original Oil on Paper
Early American portraits in the style of and possibly by Henry Bryan Hall (English/American, 1808-1861) Later in hi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper
1930's Original Parisian Fashion Watercolor Blue Floral Summer Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1930's French fashion design, no doubt of Parisian origin.
The painting, executed in gouache/ watercolor and pencil, is dated to the upper corner ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
$145 Sale Price
30% Off
Italian Large Renaissance Nobleman Portrait
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4069 Italian nobleman oil painting
unframed
Category
1960s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Emma Woods - British Victorian art oil painting noted female artist
Located in London, GB
This stunning British Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Annie Louisa Swynnerton. The sitter is Emma Woods, nee King (1806-1896). Emma was the wife of Samuel ...
Category
1890s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Important Rococo 18th Century French portraits
Located in New York, NY
Very good condition with original canvas, stretcher and frame.
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Oil - Lady In Mourning Clothes
Located in Corsham, GB
In need of full restoration. Unsigned. On canvas.
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 41x33 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$204 Sale Price
43% Off
Portrait of a Girl with a Puppy - Scottish Edwardian art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning Edwardian portrait oil painting is attributed to Scottish Kirkcudbright School artist William Stewart MacGeorge. Painted circa 1910, The painting shows the influences o...
Category
1910s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$26,689 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Young Child Antique European Oil Painting Fine Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Child
European School, early 20th century
oil on canvas, framed
frame: 21 x 18 inches
canvas: 15 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: extensiv...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Boy with Calen" by Anne Siems, Surreal figurative painting, boy with flowers
By Anne Siems
Located in Dallas, TX
"Boy with Calendula" by Anne Siems, is a captivating figurative-narrative painting featuring a young child and a rabbit, with an 18th century feel. He is floating and surrounded by s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$5,760 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Realist Oil Profile Portrait of Lady Beautiful Quality
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French realist artist of the 19th century
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 12.5 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$924 Sale Price
30% Off
How Long Will I Have To Wait -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Love Women
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 (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
Large 17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil Painting on Wood Panel Biblical Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Biblical Figures, Large Gathering around Christ?
Dutch Old Master, early 17th century
oil painting on wood panel, stuck on velvet backing board
velvet board: 27 x 29 inches
board: 25.5 x 26 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound condition, obvious old panel...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pensive Girl - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Modern Women Portrait
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fauvism : Dreaming Model - Original oil on canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre GARCIA FONS
Fauvism : Dreaming Model , c. 1965
Original oil painting
Signed upper right corner
Signed and titled on the back
On canvas 50 x 61 cm (c. 20 x 24 inch)
PROVENAN...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animated biblical scene
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Work re-lined
Plaster and gilded wood frame
86 x 105 x 7 cm
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,102
Portrait of Croele Woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard Dumoulin (1898 - 1973)
Creole woman
1938
Oil on canvas
89 x 74 cm
(97 x 85 cm with frame)
35.04 x 29.13 in
(38.19 x 33.46 in with frame)
Signed and dated top right
Online ca...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Dandy a Salon in Paris 19th Century portrait of a young man French painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful depiction of a dapper Parisian dandy, dating from 1848. I love his air of decadence! It is a work by F de Korff, a mysterious French aristocratic portrait artist who had ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an elegant
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
39 x 33 x 5 cm
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,884
Thoughtful
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Son of the Soil
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Son of a soil which also means a "peasant" is a personality that leaves by the soil, on the soil, and around the soil…
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Framed Late 19th Century Oil - Spanish Beauty
Located in Corsham, GB
Spanish School, head and shoulders portrait of a beautiful young woman in an elegant blue dress and lace mantilla. Well presented in a painted wooden frame. Unsigned. On canvas on st...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of William James, 1949 Oil on Board by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait of William James (39)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: 1949
Oil on Board
Size: 16 in. x 12 in. (40.64 cm x 30.48 cm)
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Young woman
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,364
Love and Flowers -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Women
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 (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mid Century French Nude Painting Of A Lady Stood Posed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Lady
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
oil on thin board, unframed
board: 27 x 15 inches
good condition with some cracks shown in photos
provenance: from the artists estate, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$486 Sale Price
30% Off
The Hands That Holds Me -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Green
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube.
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
"You always say don't start ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Painter with a Pipe, Impressionist Oil Painting in the style of Gaetano Esposito
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown after Gaetano Esposito
Title: Painter with a Pipe
Year: circa 1900
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed illegibly verso
Size: 16.5 x 13 in....
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Elegant Young Lady at a Parisian Café
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov
(Born 1974) Russian
Elegant Young Lady seated on the Terrace at a Parisian Café, wearing a Lilac and blacvk dress
Oil on canvas: 16 x 13inches. Frame: 23 x 20 i...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A pair of Dutch 17th century old master portraits of a husband and wife
Located in Bath, Somerset
A rare pair of three-quarter length 'marriage' portraits by one of the foremost dutch portrait painters of the 17th century, Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam). The gentleman signed middle left 'Maes 1679'. Oil on canvas in dutch style ebonised frames. Dimensions 58 x 47.5cms each.
The gentleman is shown in a landscape at dusk, leaning against a stone capital, wearing a white chemise decorated with lace, a black coat and a brown silk cloak draped across his body.
The lady is elegantly dressed in an ivory silk gown decorated with jewels on the neckline and shoulders, the contrasting sleeves in gold fabric, with a rose pink silk cloak draped over her shoulder and bodice. She wears a pearl necklace and earrings with her fair hair worn up with ringlets falling down onto her chest in the fashionable style of the day. She stands with one hand touching a lock of her hair as she rests her arm on the bowl of a stone water drinking fountain...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
"Marion Jones Farquhar" Frederick William Macmonnies, Tennis Olympian Portrait
Located in New York, NY
Frederick William Macmonnies
Marion Jones Farquhar, 1905-11
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Provenance:
William Clerk
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Mary Smart, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings by E. Adina Gordon, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, no. 90.
The work depicts Marion Jones Farquhar who, was an American tennis player who competed during the late 19th century and early 20th century. She won the singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S championships and was the first American woman to medal at the Olympics placing Bronze in singles. Additionally, she was the artist's sister-in-law who often played and competed with MacMonnies in golf and tennis. MacMonnies would often study the movements of her form referenced in his sculpture. When MacMonnies won a doubles golf tournament he said "Marion dragged my dead weight thro' and won us the tournament, showing what great Generalship can do."
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick MacMonnies had fame in the United States and Europe in the later half of the 19th century and early 20th century. He occasionally returned to America but lived most of his life as in expatriate in France. He was especially known for his lithe bronze figures, especially ones titled Diana. The classical names of these figures allowed him the appearance of propriety but gave him the opportunity to model svelte nudes.
Frederick MacMonnies was one of the first American sculptors to recognize the potential market of the middle class. He copyrighted his works and then contracted with foundries to mass produce some of his figures such as Diana in smaller sizes.
MacMonnies was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was a child prodigy at carving stone. At age 18, he worked in the studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and then persuaded him to become his assistant, keeping models damp and covered, running errands, and cleaning the studio. Evenings he studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design.
In Saint-Gaudens' studio, he met many of the wealthy people who shared Saint-Gaudens Beaux-Arts based ideas that art and architecture should be unified in order to create public art in America equal to that of classical antiquity or Renaissance Europe. Among the men that MacMonnies met through Saint-Gaudens who later furthered his career were architects Stanford White and Charles McKim...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Oil - Grape Gatherer
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil study depicting a woman gathering grape vines in a field. Part of a pair of oils depicting women harvesting. Unsigned. On panel.
Category
Early 18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seasons, Abstract Oil Painting by Female Artist Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Seasons
Miriam Bromberg
Date: 1970s
Oil on Canvas
Size: 28 x 36 in. (71.12 x 91.44 cm)
Frame Size: 29 X 37 inches
Category
1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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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