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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1920s
French North African early 20th century Impressionist, Fishermen coming ashore
Located in Woodbury, CT
French North African early 20th-century Impressionist, Fishermen coming ashore with their daily catch.
André Humbert was born in Paris on the 27th of November. He was a student of t...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bedouin Woman in Purple, Modern Framed Oil Painting by Philippe Alfieri
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philippe Alfieri, Italian/American (1921 - 2009)
Title: Bedouin Woman in Purple
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 36 x 48 in. (91.44 x 121.92 cm)
Fram...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Scottish Terrier Dog Portrait English Vintage Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
L.W.Fraser
English, mid 20th century
The Scottish Terrier
Original pastel drawing signed on artist paper
Framed: 20.5 x 14 inches
Glass covering
Provenance: private collection, UK
...
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
'Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Tie' French School (1956)
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Tie', gouache and ink on art paper, French School (1956). Step into the world of mid-20th century European art with a striking portrait that capture...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Kees Van Dongen Circus Performers 1900s Vintage Vibrant Figure Fauvist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Artistes du Cirque" is an original painting in ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper by leading Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, signed in the lower right. In the piece, two circus performers stand against against a wall. On the left, a pale woman in a blue leotard with red flowers on the shoulder stands with her arms crossed, looking out at the viewer. The painter fills in her tights with delicate white brushstrokes, lending them an almost iridescent appearance. Her strawberry blond hair is piled on top of her hair according to the fashion of the period. On the right, an African man stands in a vivid orange toga, looking somewhere off to the left. His feet are clad in bright white shoes...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
RMS Laconia, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
RMS Laconia, 1921
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 14.25 x 22.75 inches
Superb oil painting by the well ...
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Lungomare Le sain'
Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996
signed and dated on back 1973
inscribed verso
gouache painting on artist paper, framed
size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches
Fabulous 1970s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Virgin of Kataphyge and St. John, after a Byzantine Bulgarian Icon 14th Century
Located in Segovia, ES
The Virgin of Kataphyge with Saint John the Evangelist, after a Bulgarian Byzantine icon of the 14th Century.
Egg tempera and gold leaf on gesso and wood.
Author: Oliver Samsinger...
Category
Early 1900s Byzantine Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Sophisticate
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to have recently discovered, “The Sophisticate”, by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld was classically trained in fine ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-20th Century French Signed Oil Portrait of a Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Woman
French artist, mid 20th century
signed oil on board, frames
Framed: 29 x 23 inches
Board : 22 x 15 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940 Large Portrait of a Woman, Kae Dorn Cass, by Cleveland School Artist
By Rolf Stoll
Located in Beachwood, OH
Rolf Stoll (American, 1892-1978)
Kae Dorn Cass, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed upper right
32 x 25 inches
38 x 31 inches, framed
Exhibited:
The 27th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1940
This work won first prize for oil painting- Portrait category
Provenance:
Collection of Kae Dorn Cass's niece
Kae Dorn Cass
Rolf Stoll
Rolf Stoll, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes and floral still lifes, was an important member of the Cleveland art scene during the second quarter of the century. He was also an influential teacher, as well as one of Ohio’s foremost portrait painters.
Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1892. As a boy, he attended a military academy, during which time he developed an interest in art. He received his early formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City. A decade later, after studying at the school of the National Academy of Design and supporting himself by working as a commercial artist, Stoll decided to leave New York. Upon the recommendation of Warren Pryor, one of his teachers, he decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. After arriving in Cleveland, Rolf Stoll continued to work as a commercial artist. However, in 1926, he joined the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught drawing. Two years later Stoll was appointed head of the school’s portrait painting department. A talented portraitist, Stoll’s sitters included industrialists, community leaders and many prominent members of Cleveland and Ohio society, as well as over twenty faculty members from Case Western Reserve University. Stoll also gave portrait classes at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute from 1926 to 1953. In his male portraits especially, he was admired for his ability to convey the dignity of his sitter’s professional position without sacrificing individuality. As noted by one contemporary reviewer, Stoll was a “master of rich color, a searching student of human types, a forceful portrayer of all that the face reveals of the mind and the soul.” In addition to his activity as a portraitist, Rolf Stoll painted figure subjects and floral still lifes. He was also known for his views of the Ohio countryside...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). Portrait, 1989. Oil on canvas, 11 x 17.5 inches. Unframed. Signed, dated and dedicated on verso. Excellent condition.
Manuel Pa...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Casting, figurative painting (beautiful women and colorful masks)
Located in Segovia, ES
"Casting", painted by the Spanish artist Goyo Domínguez in 1995, is a romantic, colorful picture that smoothly joins the figurative and abstract worlds.
"Casting" was painted with a...
Category
1990s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vintage Impressionist Portrait Painting Nicely Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage impressionist portrait painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1900's French Impressionist Oil on Canvas Nude Model Artists Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
French Impressionist, circa 1900's
oil on canvas, unframed
indistinctly signed with initials to the corner
canvas: 51.5 x 35.5 inches
Provenance: private collection...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
20th century English portrait of two Labrador Retriever dogs Sadie & Sophie
Located in Woodbury, CT
20th-century English portrait of two Labrador Retriever dogs Sadie & Sophie
Owning a painting of two English Labrador Retriever dogs by D.J. Holdswor...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Chess Match
Located in London, GB
'The Chess Match', oil on cardstock paper, by Raymond Debiève (1973). Rich colours, bold, painterly brush strokes and an unusual subject for a work of art, Debiève has created this s...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Arthur Smith Modernist Erotic Painting
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled, 20th century
Oil on board
8 x 9 7/8 in.
Framed: 14 1/4 x 16 3/8 in.
Signed lower left: A Smith
Arthur Smith is a listed American paint...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1950’s Fashion Illustration Painting Of A Chic Lady With Shielding The Rain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rainy Day
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
ink/watercolour/pencil drawing on thick paper, unframed
signed J.V
paper: 10 x 6.25 inches
double sided
very good condition
provenance...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
1971 Aluminium Engraved Painting Abstract Figure by Alberto Viani
By Alberto Viani
Located in Brescia, IT
This aluminium painting engraved by Alberto Viani, is a soft female portrait. The woman's figure is in an ethereal way, as a poetry.
This artwork is a multiple of a limited edition o...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Metal
'Insouciance', Mid 20th Century Portrait of Max Vigon friend of Jean Cocteau.
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century oil portrait of the actor Max Vigon. The sitter was a friend and collector of the works of Jean Cocteau. By repute this portrait is by Cocteau however it is n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Woman Portrait Large Oil Painting
By Jared Fitzgerald
Located in Buffalo, NY
Contemporary modernist American portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Measuring 20 by 40 inches.
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fernand Toussaint, Brussels 1873 – 1956, Belgian Painter, Portrait of a Lady
Located in Knokke, BE
Toussaint Fernand
Brussels 1873 – 1956
Belgian Painter
Portrait of a Lady
Signature: Signed bottom left
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image size 46 x 38 cm, frame size 64 x 56 c...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Bather
Located in London, GB
'The Bather', oil on board, by Charles Kvapil (1934). The world of art has for centuries depicted bathers in one form or another. Kvapil's wonderfully allur...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early Modern American Portrait, Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, Frank Anderson Trapp
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very stylized and powerful portrait by the noted artist Frank Anderson Trapp. It is dated 1940, and is very much in the modern style of French painters Ferdinand Leger...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Old Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized in 1930s.
Painted on both sides, recto and verso.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Post Impressionist Modern Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist portrait painting. Housed in a period frame. Measuring 29 by 33 inches overall and 20 by 24 painting alone.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polish Jewish Chassidic Rabbi Judaica Art Oil Painting Konstantin Szewczenko
Located in Surfside, FL
Konstanty Szewczenko (1910-1991), signed oil Judaica Oil Painting, Chassidic Rebbe, Polish.
Frame: 17 X 15.25
Image: 11.5 X 9.5
Konstantin Shevchenko studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1927 - 1928. Then, in 1932 he studied painting under the guidance of Kowarski and Pruszkowski at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Practiced easel painting, mostly judaic hassidic rabbi portraits, genre scenes. Among others, a portrait Moscicki, Rydz - Rydz, and after the war Rokossowski.He worked as a set designer. In the years 1934 - 1935 was production designer Variety Theatre. He collaborated with publishing houses with illustrations. He exhibited in Warsaw, Poland, Vienna, Austria and New York. In 1947 he took part in Exhibition Independent Artists Group) and abroad (solo exhibition at the Gallery G. Tomalsky in New York, 1964) . He is one of many great Jewish Polish artists that included Leopold Gottlieb, Maurycy Gottlieb, Henryk Hechtkopf, Leopold Pilichowski, Isidor Kaufmann, Lazar krestin, Alois Heinrich Priechenfried and Itshak Holtz. His works are in the collection of the Museum of the Polish Army. He was an Polish, Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Portrait of a Redhead Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura Greenwood (1897-1951)
Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1925
Oil on canvas, measuring 16 x 20 inches
Signed lower right.
Condition: the piece will require some minor conserva...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
COLORFUL 20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - NUDE FIGURES IN DESERT
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"In the Desert"
by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019)
signed gouache paint
dated 85'
painting: 15.75 x 11.5 inches
provenance: private collection, South of France
Superb original paintin...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Nude Portrait of a Lady - 1930's French Post-Impressionist Oil Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large 1930's French post-impressionist oil on canvas nude portrait of a lady in the artist's studio, by Bertrand Py.
Excellent quality and very good condition portrait ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Characterful Portrait French Man with Hat & Pipe Signed & Dated 1903 Oil Paint
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man with a Hat holding a Pipe
French School, signed and dated 1903
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21.75 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: s...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cubist Painting from 1918-19, Portrait of Dr Mens III
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938)
Portrait of Dr Mens III, 1918-1919
oil on board
70 x 50 cm
stamp signed
painted c. 1918-1919
Provenance:
Within the family Beer until today
Dick Beer (1893-1938)
Dick Beer was born in London in 1893. His father, John Beer (1853-1906), was a Swedish painter from Stockholm who had a career mainly as a watercolour painter with motifs of horses from racetracks and fox hunts from the countryside.
Barely fifteen years old, Dick Beer became an orphan and came to Sweden in 1907. Already in 1908-1909, he started at Althin's painting school in Stockholm. And later, at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1910-1912. His teachers were, among others, Gustaf Cederström, Oscar Björk and Alfred Bergström...
Category
1910s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Nude Female Portrait Interior Post Impressionist Signed Impasto Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Portrait
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed on front and back
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18 x 13 inches
Colors: Beige colors, beige, brown, blue , green ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist 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
Framed Painted Chinese Silk Screen Portraits - Made in China
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Framed vintage Chinese landscape/portrait paintings on silk paper. All three paintings are in great condition, unframed they measure 6 in x 5 in, with framing the entire piece measur...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Silk, Paint
Woman by the Window with Embroidery Frame
By Franz Ludwig Kiederich
Located in London, GB
'Woman by the Window with Embroidery Frame', oil on canvas, by Franz Ludwig Kiederich (circa 1930s). A delightful depiction of a woman, comfortable...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Man - Large Modern British Figurative Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A superb large scale Modern British oil on canvas portrait of a smartly dressed young man wearing a striped shirt, suit jacket and tie.
Excellent quality and unsusual work, which i...
Category
1960s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elegant Figures Country Chateau Park Land Antique French Oil Painting Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The French Chateau
French School, early 20th century
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 30 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very good condition with...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jardim Botanico 2
By Otto Aguiar
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lovely painting by Otto Aguiar depicts five elegantly presented, life-size figures seated on a Botanical Garden bench, that leads to an alluring tropical dimension beyond the ar...
Category
1990s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1950’s Fashion Illustration Original Painting Of A Chic Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Chic Lady
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
ink/watercolour/pencil drawing on thick paper, unframed
paper: 10 x 6.25 inches
double sided
very good conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
The Entry of Jesus to Jerusalem
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...
Category
1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Edwardian British Society Portrait of an Elegant Lady Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
by John Arthur Machray Hay (Scottish, 1887-1960)
signed and dated 1910
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
c...
Category
1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Family Seated on a Bench at the Port
Located in London, GB
'Family Seated on a Bench at the Port', oil on board, by François Diana (circa 1970s). A painting with a very wholesome, homespun theme harks back to a more innocent time. A family i...
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Grand Prix Racer
Located in London, GB
'Grand Prix Racer', French School, oil on board (circa 1960s). The 'good ole' days' of Formula One racing are depicted in this thrilling mid-century...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blushing Roses in a Golden Vase Still Life Large Scale Classical Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Blushing Roses in a Golden Vase
Continental School, late 20th century
most likely a pastiche work after an earlier composition
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 36 x 24 inches
provena...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Portrait Oil Painting - Portrait of a Troubled Soul
Located in Bristol, GB
PORTRAIT OF A TROUBLED SOUL
Size: 65.5 x 54 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
This mid-century expressive and emotive oil portrait delves into the depths of the human psyche with a...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Stonecutter's Evening, Early 20th Century American Scene Oil, Man w/ Violin
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Stonecutter's Evening, c. 1915
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
36 x 27.5 inches
42.25 x 34 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
Category
1910s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Mid 20th Century French Signed Oil Lady Seated in Interior Room Setting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lady Seated in Interior Room Setting
by Georges PACOUIL (1903-1996) French circa 1950
signed lower front corner
oil on canvas
canvas: 25.5 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th century English Antique portrait of a Polo Pony
By George Paice
Located in Woodbury, CT
This early 20th-century portrait of a Polo Pony by the esteemed English artist George Paice is an exquisite representation of equine artistry, showcasing Paice’s remarkable skill in ...
Category
1910s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of an Edwardian Lady - British American art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Edwardian portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of John Singer Sargent. Sargent was born in America then trained in Paris before coming to London. Painted...
Category
1910s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Shepherd with Montbèliarde Calf" Julius Paul Junghanns (1876 - 1958)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Shepherd with Montbèliarde Calf"
Julius Paul Junghanns (1876 - 1958)
Oil on canvas
23 7/8 x 30 (35 x 41 frame) inches
Signed l.l and dated "34" and signed on the verso
Private Ita...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960's French Signed Oil Portrait Nude Lady Dancing with Tambourine
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Tambourine Player
French School, circa 1950's-1960's
signed lower front corner
oil painting on board, framed
framed: 18 x 16 inches
board: 14 x 12 inches
provenance: private coll...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Pipe Smoker - Original Oil on Canvas, SIGNED
Located in Paris, IDF
Antonio GUANSE (1926-2008)
Pipe Smoker, 1977
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated
Countersigned and dated on the back
On canvas 61 x 50 cm
Presented with the wooden frame 62.5 x 51 cm
Ve...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl in Pink Dress, 1937 Portrait Painting by Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino Artist
By Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (Filipino, 1892-1978)
Signed: F Amorsolo 1937 (Lower, Right)
" Girl in Pink Dress ", 1937
Oil on canvas
26 1/8" x 19"
H...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of a Man Double Sided Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Double sided portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-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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