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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Like Water Flows Around Rocks -21st Cent, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

Scagliola Plaster Painting Portrait Napoleon 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Portrait of the younger brother of Napoleon, Lucien Bonaparte, done with the Scagliola technique. Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning "chips") is a type of fine plaster came into fashion in 17th-century Tuscany as an effective substitute for costly marble inlays, the pietra dura works created for the Medici family...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Plaster

Novus Amor, Novis Vita IX, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita IX, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working proce...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Butterfly - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pauline Vivenne - 20th Century Oil, Show Girl
Located in Corsham, GB
An original oil painting by Italian based artist Pauline Vivienne. Signed and dated (1971) to the lower left. Signed and titled verso. On canvas on stretchers.
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait Of A Red Haired Holding Flowers, circa 1900
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Red Haired Holding Flowers, circa 1900 English School signed JM Circa 1900 English School portrait of the young girl holding flowers...
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Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Musician
Located in London, GB
This head and shoulders portrait is an outstanding example of the breadth, force and beauty of this artist's pictorial manner and abilities. This captivating portrait features a musi...
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Late 17th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The violinist by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 50x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
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1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Matthew At The Piano, dated 1969 by EDWARD HALL (1922-1991)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Matthew At The Piano, dated 1969 by EDWARD HALL (1922-1991) Large 20th century portrait of Matthew at the piano, oil on canvas by Edward Hall...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

New York (Sunday)
Located in Greenwich, CT
William Nelson’s latest body of work, titled Pretty, Desirable, Delightful, Dangerous, invites us into a dynamic world of glamour and mystery, rich with symbolism, history, and intri...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Mary Hardy (nee Sulman), Late 19th Century Victorian Oil
Located in London, GB
Slade School Late 19th Century Portrait of a Mary Hardy (nee Sulman) Oil on panel Image size: 8 x 7 inches Contemporary frame Provenance Lady Town (Grandda...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Portrait of Owen Ormsby, bust-length, in a brown coat
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Gainsborough Dupont (1754 - 1797, British) Portrait of Owen Ormsby, bust-length, in a brown coat, with slightly later inscription identifying the sitter oil on canvas 2...
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Late 18th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

A LARGE BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PLAQUE, THE PRODIGAL SON
Located in New York, NY
Finely painted after Rembrandt with a self-portrait of the artist and his spouse, Saskia, in a tavern, in the guise of the Prodigal Son LATE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCE...
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Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Porcelain

Russian oil portrait of Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky by A. Ivasenko
By Anatolii Ivasenko
Located in London, GB
Russian oil portrait of Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky by A. Ivasenko Russian, 1987 Frame: height 106cm, width 111cm Canvas: height 95cm, width 100cm This excellent portrait was executed by the artist A. Ivasenko, and depicts Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky, the famed Soviet filmmaker, and son of the noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky wasthe most important Soviet filmmaker after Sergei Eisenstein, and his approach to cinematic time and space, as well as his commitment to cinema as a form of poetry, means his oeuvre is regarded as one of the most defining collections of modern film. He first achieved international acclaim with 'Ivan's Childhood' in 1962, which won top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and other career highlights include 'Andrei Rublev...
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1980s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
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1960s Feminist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait Of A Spanish Marquess, 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Spanish Marquess, 18th Century attributed to Louis-Michel VAN LOO (1707-1771) Large 18th European portrait of a Spanish Marquees / Noble at a bureaux signing a docum...
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18th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self Portrait, Mid-20th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Sheila Holland 1932-2002 Self Portrait Oil on canvas, signed lower right Image size: 30 x 22 inches This is a wonderfully dynamic self portrait by the female artist Shelia Holland. ...
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

17th Century by Juan Alfonso Abril Head of St Paul Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Juan Alfonso Abril (active in the 17th century in Valladolid) Head of Saint Paul Oil on canvas, cm. 48,5 x 62 - with frame cm. 63 x 76,5 Shaped wooden f...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work. Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
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Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self Portrait in Rheinland-Pfalz
Located in Wien, 9
The painter was born in Austrian, but grew up in Munich and died in 2006 at the age of 77. He was an outstanding personality, atypical in the German art landscape. He started on the ...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

And Forsake All Others
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lady Gaga, The Pink Panther and the Little Man
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Model
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV (Born in 1952) The Model Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel Signed lower right 130 x 90 cm 2021
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Painting 19th Century - Portrait of Young Lady
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
ERNEST BLANC-GARIN (1843-1916) Portrait of a Young Lady around 1880 Oil on wood panel signed low Old Original frame gilded with leaves Dimensions wood : 40 X 30 cm Dimensions frame : 62 X 53 cm ERNEST BLANC-GARIN (1843-1916) Belgian Painter 19th Century Born 8 October 1843 in Givet (France) Died 1916 in Brussels (Belgium) Painter of Portraits and Urbanscapes. In Brusssels he was taught by Jan Portaëls (1818-1895); then in Paris by Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) He took part in the Salon de Paris from 1868. After a trip to Italy in 1870, he came back to Brussels for creating a private Art Academy providing a very liberal teaching. His portraits are made with a lot of freedom and gracefulness. Bibliography : Dictionary of Artists E. Benezit Book II / 373 Gérald SHURR : Les petits Maîtres de la Peinture 1820- 1920 Book V
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1880s Academic Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

3-9-22 (Duptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1900 Young Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Eminent Women, Illustration for McCall's Magazine, May 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Illustration celebrating important women throughout history, published in McCall's magazine, May 1959. Accompanied by a tear sheet of the p...
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1950s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Milton Avery #6"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. D...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

Portrait of a young Swedish woman, bathed in warm firelight, Oil on Panel
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964) Sam Uhrdin was born in 1886 in the Swedish town of Siljasnas to the north-west of St...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Original Painting Lucia Riccelli, painter and performance artist. Born in Rome, living in Vienna, Zakynthos and Rome. Degreed at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in painting and scenography. Studied and performed classical ballet...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Raw Linen, Oil, Acrylic

Candy Girl
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

No. 83 - Make A Wish
Located in Wien, 9
No. 83 - Make a Wish (2021), Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 100 x 100 cm Elena Steiner was born in Susice (Czech Republic) in 1975 and lives and works in Vienna. She completed her painting studies at the Institute for Fine and Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in Johanna Kandl’s class. In her series of works, Elena Steiner examines a different type of person, sensitizes the viewer, confronts him with the uncompromising demasking of his own world and that of the portrayed by violating the illusion-bearing canvas surface. She creates realistic acrylic paintings as metaphors for being and appearance. The injuries in the form of seams, stitches and stitches are the epitome of traditional female role fulfillment. Elena Steiner deals with the questions of the value of fulfilling external wishes, social recognition and self-determination. Her works experiment with the border areas between painting, object, real exhibition space and imaginative spatiality and thus offer a captivating game be-tween closeness and distance, between impenetrable closeness and revealing familiarity. Her artistic work shows a zoomed in, sharply focused, snappy, humorous portrait...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Woman with Leaves
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right American Art Works Calendar Illustration
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1910s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of a Lady, Early 20th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Follower of Ambrose McEvoy Circa 1910 Portrait of a Lady Oil on canvas Image size: 20 x 16 inches (51 x 40.5 cm) Original ebonised Frame
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait Of A Gentleman Holding Flowers, circa 1600 Flemish School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Gentleman Holding Flowers, circa 1600 Flemish School Large circa 1600 Flemish School portrait of a man holding flowers wearing a plumed hat, oil on panel. Exceptional...
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17th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Wu Jue - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Zumbi dos Palmares
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.” Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...
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2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Marilyn Monroe - Sweet Dreams
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Panel Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 36.00" x 30.00"
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Acrylic

Sketch Of Nude Bathers, 1938 William Russell FLINT (1880-1969)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Sketch Of Nude Bathers, 1938 William Russell FLINT (1880-1969) Large circa 1930 study of nude bathers, oil on panel attributed to William Russell F...
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Practicing the Speech, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1939 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 33.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Liberty Magazine, January 14, 1939
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Contemporary Oil Portrait of Party People Smoking, Laughing, and Drinking
Located in Fort Worth, TX
The Menthol Mood, 2009, Nancy Lamb, Oil on canvas, 48 x 85" Nancy Lamb (American, born 1956), sculptor and painter. Formally trained at Texas Christian Un...
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Oil

Rayuela
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Peña Rayuela Photo-painting on parchment paper 46h x 40w in 116.84h x 101.60w cm
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media

Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
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1930s Academic Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood

PPortrait Of Barbara Villiers (1640–1709), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess o
Located in Blackwater, GB
PPortrait Of Barbara Villiers (1640–1709), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland Circle of Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) Huge 17th Cent...
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17th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

John Wayne
By Charles David De Mar
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 2011 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right and Verso
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Ice Follies Souvenir Program Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1963 Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Original cover art of two women skaters in costume for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies...
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1960s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Charlotte
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Anthony Palliser was born in 1949 of an English father and a Belgian mother. He studied at Downside school and graduated from New College Oxford. In 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

Interwoven Socks Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1920-1925 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Size: 29.50" x 23.00" Interwoven Socks Advertisement Literatu...
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1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Marilyn Monroe - Sizzle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Panel Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 29.5" x 22.75"
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Acrylic

"Gemini" oil painting on panel figurative two women female red hair
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess Gemini, 2020 oil on panel 17.5" x 12" unframed 21” x 15.5” framed Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that ble...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

The Night Royal Mail Coach To London, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Night Royal Mail Coach To London, 19th Century attributed to Charles Cooper HENDERSON (1803-1877) Fine large 19th Century scene of a Lon...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ladies by Annemarie Ambrosoli, Oil on Canvas, 50x70 cm
Located in Kiens, BZ
Ladies (2017), oil on canvas stretched over wooden frame, 50x70 cm, by Italian contemporary artist ©Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist) Hand-signed by the Art...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.P)
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Panel

"Jasmine and Clove" oil painting woman female portrait black dress
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess Jasmine and Clove, 2017 oil on Dibond 10” x 8” unframed 13.5" x 11.75" framed Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil painti...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Audrey
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn. Portrait. Abstract Feel. Oil on Linen. Sides painted black. About the Artist: Karl has been a fine artist his entire life and is well known for his portraits,...
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2010s Conceptual Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Seated Nude"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed LR & Dated 2004 Born in Inner Mongolia Xue's approach to the genre of portraiture is unique: situating Asian subjects in a highly stylised manner that is reminiscent, both te...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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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