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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1960s
The Homecoming
By Louis Icart
Located in Naples, Florida
The Homecoming
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of a Young Welsh Girl - Enid Richards - British Edwardian Staithes art
By Ernest Higgins Rigg
Located in London, GB
A fine portrait oil on canvas by noted British Staithes listed artist Ernest Higgins Rigg. It is a super Edwardian portrait of Enid Richards and was painted at Govilon in Wales in 1...
Category
1910s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Laid Back Lady Portrait Pencil Sketch Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Female Portrait
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
black pastel drawing on artist paper, unframed
measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide
co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Moments of Reflection Depicting a Woman Sitting by the Fire, Original Oil Paint
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present a captivating painting by the artist Sam Uhrdin (1886-1964). This beautiful artwork depicts a woman from Dalarna, sitting in front of a warm, glowing fire. The entire painting is bathed in a soft, radiant light, particularly illuminating her face and traditional white/red attire. The woman appears contemplative, lost in thought, perhaps thinking of someone dear to her heart. She is depicted in a kitchen, taking a moment to relax after a day's chores in her home.
Sam Uhrdin's artistic journey began in the early 1900s, he traveled to Stockholm in 1903 to further continue his studies in painting. He worked as a painter during the day and attended various evening schools in the evenings. In 1906, he journeyed to America to work as a sign painter, but he mainly ended up working as an upholsterer. Returning to Leksand in 1909 via London and Paris, his artistic talent gained recognition, and with the help of some patrons, he began studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1911, occasionally attending Althin's painting school in Stockholm. Financial circumstances cut his study time short, and his skill as a portrait painter earned him numerous portrait commissions, which further occupied his time.
In 1921, Uhrdin received a scholarship from the Royal Academy, enabling him to embark on a study trip in 1922 to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, which he had to cut short due to his wife's illness. He later visited places like Spain and Portugal.
Uhrdin's breakthrough came with his portrait of the former Prime Minister Nils Edén, which he executed in 1919. In 1921, he portrayed the participants of the Swedish Academy. Among other representatives of official Sweden captured by Uhrdin were Gustav V, Manne Siegbahn, Ludvig Stavenow, and bishops Gottfrid and Einar Billing. In 1932, he held a solo exhibition at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, and he participated in various exhibitions, including the Swedish Artists' Association in Stockholm in 1917, Swedish Art at Valand-Chalmers in Gothenburg in 1923, Dalarna Artists displayed at Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1936, and the National Museum's traveling exhibition "Barnet i konsten" (Children in Art...
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"TIBET" PORTRAIT 12X14 FRAMED JOHN AUSTIN HANNA
Located in San Antonio, TX
John Austin Hanna
Born 1942
Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 5 x 7
Frame Size: 12 x 14
Medium: Oil
"Tibet"
Biography
John Austin Hanna Born 1942
Biography
John Austin Hanna Born 19...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Posed Lady in Red In Flowing River Landscape 20th Century Framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lady in Red
by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021)
signed lower corner
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 20 x 23 inches
canvas size: 13 x 16 inches
condition: overall very good, mino...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait by Fernand Blondin - Oil on Canvas - 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Fernand Blondin (1887-1967) was a Swiss painter and teacher, celebrated for his depictions of idyllic rural life, interiors, female nudes, portraits, still-lifes, religious subjects ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
By Chuck Close
Located in Buffalo, NY
American modernist abstracted portrait oil painting in the style of Chuck Close. Framed. Oil on paper. Image size, 23H by 20L.
Category
1990s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Petite Fille de Fleur - Mid Century Parisian Flower Girl Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Exquisitely precocious portrait of a little flower girl or "Petite Fille de Journal", paper girl in Paris by Roger Etienne (French, 1923-2011). Signed and dated lower left, "Etienne ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Newsprint
The Beating - Police and Man
Located in Miami, FL
Watercolor and gouache on paper laid on board
Magazine Illustration defined by bold graphic composition and limited color palate yielding a powerful image that jumps off the page. u...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Bernadette Kelly (b.1933) - 20th Century Oil, Lady In A Summer Dress
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alberto Rossi (1858-1936) - Early 20th Century Oil, Knitting Lessons
By Alberto Rossi
Located in Corsham, GB
A thoroughly charming oil showing a young girl teaching a little boy to knit using red wool. The artist has beautifully captured the tutorial tilt of the girl's head and the inquisit...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abella, 241 Jesus Christ Religious theme. original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Abella. Religious theme.original acrylic painting.
Juan Jose Abella Rubio was born in Estercuel, a hamlet anchored in the Teruel mining basin in March 1944. In his painting the oche...
Category
1980s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blond and Blue Eyed Ballerina in Tutu against Chinese Screen
Located in Miami, FL
Prolific Saturday Evening Post Cover Illustrator Pearl L. Hill Worthington paints a stunning portrait of a Ballerina in a tutu with underlighting. She sits on a decorative Chinese ...
Category
1920s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Muchacha
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yesterday's Love, Love can Be True. The Heart can Betray
Located in Miami, FL
Classic illustration for a romanace novel from the 1950's in England. Recently these charming works have been the source of interest and even parody. Unsigned, unframed. Vale Studi...
Category
1950s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Lion in Bowler Hat Graphic in Yellow, Red Blue, Holiday Magazine Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
A high-impact graphic of a whimsical Lion sporting a bowler hat is depicted for a cover for Holiday Magazine, April 1958. The issue was about England, and the editors finally ran a ...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Illustration Board
Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In A Pink Blouse Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
original watercolour painting on paper
by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
I...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Charming Mid-Century Modern 1950s Portrait of a Young Girl by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, beautifully painted, Mid-Century Modern portrait of a young girl by noted Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Dating from the 1950s, the painting was exhibited at the famed ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailor playing the accordion oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Albert Roca (1945) - Sailor playing the accordion oil on board painting
Medidas óleo 62x46 cm.
Medidas marco 73x57 cm.
Painter of landscapes and figures, ...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ritrattino di Ginny - Oil Paint by Giorgio Scalco - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Giorgio Scalco in 1983.
Hand signed and dated. Titled on rear.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 45x70.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West )
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein
Fine British Dog Painting Portrait of a Boxer Dog English Oil signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stuart Bolton, British b. 1943
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 34 x 23 inches
board : 30 x 20 inches
Provenance: private collection, UK
Condition: very good condition
For more a...
Category
20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl in a Green Scarf, 20th Century Oil Portrait
Located in London, GB
A.M. Coates
20th Century
Girl in a Green Scarf
Oil on canvas
Image size: 14 x 10 inches
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique British Impressionist Signed Oil Painting, Figure Walking Continental LS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: George Robert Rushton (British 1869-1948), signed lower left
Title: Figure Walking in Continental Landscape
Medium: oil on boar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with fruit. Market. Year 1958. Signed Sergio Cirno Bissi (1902 - 1987)
Located in Firenze, IT
Girl with fruit. Market. Year 1958. Signed Sergio Cirno Bissi (Carmignano, 1902 - Florence, 1987).
The very colorful and expressive painting is created...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950’s Parisian Girl - Collage Painting
By Edward Fish
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
1950’s Parisian Girl - Collage Painting
By Edward Fish, Mid 20th Century
Signed on the top left hand corner
Oil painting on canvas, framed with applied collage items
Framed size: 29...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Expressive Male Portrait Mid-20th Century French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Expressive Male Portrait
French, mid 20th century
from the studio collection of Simone Forge (1930's-1950's female French artist)
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 24 x 19.75 inches
Pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Market Seller in Nice' French Vintage Gouache Painting
Located in London, GB
'The Market Seller in Nice', gouache on paper, by Alfred Salvignol (circa 1950s). The role of women as support to their families has been both very important and highly undervalued b...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Female figure woman oil on canvas painting portrait
By Joan Palet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Female figure - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 46x38 cm.
Frame measures 70x62 cm.
Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tom
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches, Signed lower right, Signed verso on stret...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a little girl
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
This captivating portrait depicts a melancholy young face, executed with a remarkable mastery of shades of gray and brown. The artist uses a deft brush to capture the su...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self portrait oil on cardboard painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curos - Self-portrait - Oil on cardboard
Oil measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
He trained at the Olot ...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Dreamy Young Blond Women Pondering "Deckchair and Cat" Summer Pastel Color
Located in Miami, FL
A dreamy young blond woman holding a Bengal cat is depicted relaxing in a deckchair. She gazes upward and outward, pondering—the distinctive marbling of the cat echos the floral back...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Tir à l'Arc
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Rushelle in the Garden"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lady in Blue by Frank Chabry - Oil on canvas 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Frank Chabry (1916-1979) was a 20th-century artist whose career spanned several transformative decades in the art world. His work likely reflects the arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Self Portrait in Turtleneck Top
Located in Corsham, GB
Artist Self-Portrait. Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York ...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
PS 250 The Night Bride Portrait -Chut les Barbizons! Ready to Hang French School
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait PS 250 The Night Bride
Ophélia - Arthur Rimbaud
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On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping
White Ophelia floats like a great lily;
Floats very slowly, lying in...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Stoic and Soulfully Strong Women - All Women Composition Euphorbia -
Located in Miami, FL
One of Cornwell's hallmarks is that he paints stoically soulful faces that express the subject's trials and hardships. In this only-woman composition, he depicts a scene of two women who are strong, unafraid, and self-confident and can weather the storm despite the challenges. In this regard, it is similar to "A Strange Sound Drifted Down to Kit from the Top of the Range—A Man’s Voice, Singing" by Cornwell, which sold at Christie's USD $163,800 on 18 Apr 2024.
Caption: "Are you making little things?" questioned Lucy. 'No ,' said Marge. 'If this one happens to live, there will be many long years ahead of us for that."
Morris Weiss collection...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stylish Impressionist Portrait, Female Model, Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stylish Impressionist Portrait, Female Model, Original Oil Painting
By French schooled artist, 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 28.5 x 21 inches
Wonderful impressionist portrait of a stylish French model.
This beautiful young woman is one of grace and undeniable style. Her jewellery is so striking, with a stacked gold necklace and a Princess Diana style ring...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 19 x 25.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ruth Gutman with Sculpture, Portrait Oil Painting by Henry Allman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ruth Gutman with Sculpture by Henry Allman, American
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Canvas (unsigned)
Size: 31 in. x 28 in. (78.74 cm x 71.12 cm)
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Pensive Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large French Society Portrait, by repute, La Comtesse de Blacas, Château d'Ussé
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large scale French society portrait from the 1920s featuring a lady in a 'flapper' dress before a castle and it's garden by Georges Gaudy. Signed bottom left and dated, 1925. The painting is by repute of La Comtesse de Blacas, in front of her home Château d'Ussé. Ussé was the subject of a French railroad poster issued by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans in the 1920s which may have been designed by Gaudy and this may be where the commission for this painting came about.
Presented in very fine custom carved wood, gilt Florentine frame.
The early 1900s were the zenith of 20th century society portraiture by the likes of Philip de László...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1970s Expressionist Acrylic. 'Seated Figure'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An expressionist portrait of a seated figure, acrylic on paper by French artist Alain Caucat. Signed bottom right. Also signed and dated to the back of the framing board. Presented u...
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
1960's British Original Impressionist Oil Painting Figure On Chair in Green
By Beryl Darton
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Beryl Darton (British circa 1960's) signed
Period: mid 20th century/ 1960's
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Size: 17 x 14 inches
Condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Top of the World, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 38.25" x 29.25", Framed 45" x 35"
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, June 13, 1925
Edmund Davenport was a New Yorker and a successful illustrator in the 1920’s. He painted covers for Women’s Home Companion and The Saturday Evening Post, and at the same time, he worked in the art department of Paramount Studios.
At the time of this publication, a young woman’s graduation from college was a rare accomplishment, and the opportunities for employment that required a college diploma, were even rarer. Nevertheless, it was a good reason for this pretty, young woman to be sitting on top of the world in the vicinity of “cloud nine.” “Top of the World” appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on June 13, 1925.
Exhibited: Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014
A luminous and rare Golden Age of Illustration cover...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sagres II Ship Portrait 20th Century, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sagres II, 1937
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 18.25 x 13.75 inches
Superb oil painting by the well listed French marine artist Louis Letouche (1924-2015). The painting portrays a Portugese Ship from the early 20th Century, titled: Sagres II.
The three-masted ship was launched under the name Albert Leo Schlageter on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. The ship was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed in 1923 by French forces occupying the Ruhr area. Her first commander was Bernhard Rogge. Sagres is a sister ship of the Gorch Fock, the Horst Wessel, and the Romanian training vessel Mircea. Another sister, Herbert Norkus, was not completed, while Gorch Fock II was built in 1958 by the Germans to replace the ships lost after the war.
Following a number of international training voyages, the ship was used as a stationary office ship after the outbreak of World War II and was only put into ocean-going service again in 1944 in the Baltic Sea. On 14 November 1944 she hit a Soviet mine off Sassnitz and had to be towed to port in Swinemünde. Eventually transferred to Flensburg, she was taken over there by the Allies when the war ended and finally confiscated by the United States.
In 1948, the U.S. sold her to Brazil for a symbolic price of $5,000 USD.She was towed to Rio de Janeiro where she sailed as a school ship for the Brazilian Navy under the name Guanabara. In 1961, Ambassador Teotónio Pereira of Portugal, who was also a man of the sea...
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cubist Purple Nude, Contemporary Oil Painting by Female Artist Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cubist Purple Nude
Miriam Bromberg
Oil on Canvas
Size: 40 x 28 in. (101.6 x 71.12 cm)
Category
1950s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Laundry Day. Child hanging cloths in Breeze. Cover. The Household Guest
Located in Miami, FL
The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her.
Signed lower...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Alden, Arrow Collar Advertisement, 1922
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid Down on Board
Signature: Inscribed with Title (Lower Center)
Joseph Christian Leyendecker created the Arrow Collar Man in 1905 for Cluette, Peabody & Comp...
Category
1920s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Springtime, Allegorical Painting. Allegory, Woman with Spring Flower Blossoms
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Will Hicok Low (American, 1853 - 1932)
Will H. Low (lower, right)
" Springtime ", circa 1900 - 1910
Oil on Mahogany Panel
16 1/6" x 12"
Housed in a Period 1 3/4" Ornamented Fra...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Family
Located in London, GB
'The Family', gouache on fine art paper (1984), by Raymond Dèbieve. In a clear nod to Picasso's influence both stylistically and in terms of subject matter ...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Portrait of Young Boy and His Toy Train"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
This particular piece is one of Walter's signature images of children, among the subjects for which she is known. Clearly a formal portrait, it was likely commissioned for the home of an affluent client, given the child's elegant costume and the portrait;s grand size. In this arresting portrait, she captures the delight of a young blond boy...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moorish, Belle Epoque, Villa and Garden at St Tropez French Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century oil on canvas view of a villa and garden at St Tropez in the South of France by French artist Suzanne Minier. The painting is signed bottom left. There is a Parisi...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Girl Oil on Canvas By K. Burton, Signed and Framed
Located in Plainview, NY
A lovely portrait of a young girl wearing a light green dress with a yellow belt and her hair embellished with yellow ribbon against a dark background. The oil on canvas portrait is...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
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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