Portrait Paintings
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Wood Panel, Newsprint, Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Plywood, Wood Panel, Acrylic, Paint
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Newsprint, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Silver
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Stencil, Canvas, Pencil, Felt Pen, Acrylic, Spray Paint, Oil, Mixed Medi...
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Spray Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Spray Paint
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Spray Paint, Glitter
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Paint, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Felt Pen, Pencil, St...
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Wood, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Resin, Canvas, Acrylic, Giclée
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Wood, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Wood, Plexiglass, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Plexiglass, Wood, Acrylic
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper, Permanent M...
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Resin, Canvas, Acrylic, Giclée
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Resin, Acrylic, Giclée
1990s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Plastic, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Resin, Acrylic, Giclée, Canvas
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Resin, Acrylic, Giclée
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Resin, Canvas, Acrylic, Giclée
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Spray Paint
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Wood, Wood Panel, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Spray Paint
Early 2000s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Paint, Paper, Ink
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Resin, Canvas, Acrylic, Giclée
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Resin, Canvas, Acrylic, Giclée
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Resin, Acrylic, Giclée
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Oil, Paper
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Oil
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acryli...
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 2000s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Spray Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Panel
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Screen
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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.