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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 1960s
Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait on a Wooden Coin. Migrant. "Currency #202"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
The phrase in French inscribed on the piece can be translated as "Doesn't matter what they say, you deserve something more." This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" crea...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Surrealist Acrylic Portraiture Painting, "Clark" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 8.5” x 11.5” x 2” Surrealist Acrylic Portrait Painting by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery. “Gopher...
Category

2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Visions of Johanna" colorful summertime portrait of nude woman swimming/posing
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Visions of Johanna" is a colorful summertime portrait of nude woman swimming in the backgrounds and posing in the foreground. Nick Weber (b.1971), living and painting in Springs, N...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Pink Fluor Fluor Abstract Side Profile Portrait On Wood. Side "Currency #165"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2023, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work consisting of a meticul...
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Metal

"Queen Jane" colorful & enigmatic oil painting portrait of woman looking down
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Queen Jane" is a colorful & enigmatic oil painting portrait of a woman looking down. Nick Weber (b.1971), living and painting in Springs, NY (about a block away from Jackson Pollac...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A light sensation. 2008, cardboard, oil, 60x84 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A light sensation. 2008, cardboard, oil, 60x84 cm
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Early 2000s Medieval Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Vibrant Yellow and Pink Fluor Side Profile Female Portrait Wood "Currency #170"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2023, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work consisting of a meticul...
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Metal

Magic Realism Acrylic Portraiture Painting, "Brother" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 15” x 19” x 1” Magical Realism Acrylic Portrait Painting executed on Wood Panel with Custom Framing by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the ...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Surrealist Acrylic Portrait Painting, "Mr.P" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 12” x 19” x 5” Magical Realism Acrylic Portrait Painting executed on Vellum with Found Objects by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic, Vellum

"I Identify As You" (Sensual, Feminine, Romantic, LGBTQ, Figure Painting, Wood)
Located in Paris, IDF
"I IDENTIFY AS YOU AND I'M OBSESSED WITH MYSELF" 2024 Paris, France A commentary on narcism and vanity, identity and obsession. The viewer is presented with two figures, sexually a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic, Oil

The Yellow Jacket, Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Yellow Jacket, by Manuel Santelices Ink and pastel craft paper Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W Unframed 2022 Movies, TV. and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Ink

Contemporary portrait "Poolside Party"
Located in Sempach, LU
It's strange to paint frills and ruffles when all I have in my head are post-apocalyptic images. But I've never swum in a pool, nor have I been to a real party, even when I was in sc...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

A girl who loves the sea II
Located in Sempach, LU
Sunny contrasting girl portrait at the sea coast. The beautiful sea waves crushing on the coast. The sea wind is playing with hair. An artwork which brings summer and sea in to your ...
Category

2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

A Secret
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Figurative Magical Painting, textured mixed technique, created in 2021. This piece represents one of my earlier works, exploring our connection with animals through a human and magic...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Contemporary portrait "Entomological Collection"
Located in Sempach, LU
"In winter, we will go to the Natural History Museum," my husband said. Winter has passed, but we never went to the museum.In this painting, I've interwoven the essence of nature's i...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

French School PS 241 Drowned in Monet Impressionist
Located in Sempach, LU
PS 241 Drowned in Monet Portrait of a woman with red dress. The background is the famous from Claude Monet Water lilies Structural analysis: Such as Impressionist painting, the s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Oil, Acrylic

Contemporary Portrait On Wooden Coin. Migrant Work, Sky Blue "Currency #204"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work consisting of a meticul...
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Metal

Contemporary Abstract Face Portrait. Faceless Red And Green. "Currency #205"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins.In this case, the piece, crafted in contrast...
Category

2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Metal

"Ask Alice" contemporary realist portrait in colorful abstract oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Ask Alice" depicts a realist portrait of a woman within an otherwise abstract oil painting. Nick Weber (b.1971), living and painting in Springs, NY (about a block away from Jackso...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Profile Portrait Of Young Venezuelan Inmmigrant in Europe. Blue "Currency #193"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece is one of the most recent in the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, inspired by the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work consist...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Flores Amarillas
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
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2010s Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

French School - PS 238 Le temps des jonquilles - Oil Impressionist
Located in Sempach, LU
PS 238 Le temps des Jonquilles Portrait of a woman with back naked. Structural analysis: Such as Impressionist painting, the subject is firstly a study of light on human body, cr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Ink, Acrylic

Set of 4 Portraits. From the Portraits series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Portraits #13, 2, 1, and 3, 2023 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti From the Portraits series Oil and acrylic on paper Overall size: 30 H x 84 W cm Individual size: 30 H x 21 W cm Unframe...
Category

2010s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Waiting Room 1 - Contemporary Expressive Symbolic Black-White and Brown Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Lady with dinosaur
Located in Sempach, LU
The edges are painted The painting is a story of inner acquaintance and complete acceptance of one's own peculiarities and oddities. This ironic canvas tells the story of a girl wh...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Platform - Contemporary Expressive, Symbolic and Minimalistic Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled" - Oil Painting of Nude Reclining Female Figure
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

"Lockdown Self-Portrait" contemporary realist portrait of artist in his studio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Lockdown Self-Portrait" is a contemporary realist portrait of the artist in his studio. Framed Dimensions: 17 x 20 inches Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, Californi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The grape picker
Located in Sempach, LU
Classical portrait of a woman harvesting grapes. In this oil painting, I captured the serene essence of nature and the simple elegance of human connection with the earth. The centr...
Category

2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Linen

Indoors, Figurative Painting Portrait in Black, Square Shapes in Yellow & Pink
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interactions with concepts such a...
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Feminine force
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Embracing my roots and my cultural background through having a special spiritual connection to the women I depict on my canvases. The theme of women, womanhood and femininity is at ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Girl with bouquet, Spring serie
Located in Sempach, LU
You will receive this painting stretched, with painted edges and completely ready for hanging. Framing is not obligatory and depends only on your preference. The "Spring" series c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
Category

Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pajares 5 Mick Jagger Cuba Rock Big Original- street art Mixed Media
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original artwork by Spanish artist PAJARES PAJARES, Juan Manuel (Lleida 1957 ) Pajares was introduced to the impact of large-scale canvas painting using acrylics, collages and paints...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media

Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait On Wood. Stoniness Woman. "Currency #105"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2021, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work executed on a treated c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Metal

French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - 7 Personnages Skate Park
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - 4 Skaters
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rhapsody in the Tropics
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Figurative painting that explores the invisible bond that connects us with all other living beings. Against a background of natural shadow earth, a suspended dance that is infinite. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Embrace (Nature)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I observed that her beauty comes from embracing herself. Her flexibility to switch from night to day and her open alms of embracing the two seasons. Therefore, embrace yourself like ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"It Was Summer" colorful contemporary female nude resting in artist's studio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"It Was Summer" is a colorful contemporary oil painting of a female nude resting in artist's studio Nick Weber (b.1971), living and painting in Springs, NY (about a block away from ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vibrant Profile Portrait. Androgenous Face On a Wooden Coin. "Currency #194"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work consisting of a meticul...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Silent dialogue
Located in Oslo, NO
Silent dialogue
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Color Pencil, Acrylic

Sisters
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Wire Haired Jack Russell terrier
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Wire Haired Jack Russell terrier. Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last half of the ...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

English mid century oil painting Portrait of Miniature Black Poodle
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Miniature Poodle Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last half of the 20th century. She also painted flower subj...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Primavera en jardín (Spring in garden). Post-impressionist female figure sitting
Located in Segovia, ES
Primavera en jardín ( Spring in garden). Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Joan Raset. Dimension with frame 104 cm H x 121 cm W x 4,5 cm D Dimension without frame 73 cm H x 92 cm W x 2...
Category

Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

In The Cafeteria - Contemporary Expressive Symbolic Black-White Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

1000 Years, blue and earth tonehuman face, bark from birch tree, natural element
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Made with the bark of the Paper Birch tree on a repurposed trophy plaque. The title was inspired by the song, "Scott Pilgrim," by the Canadian band, Plumtree.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Archival Ink, Birch

Brave Girl 18
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Eu...
Category

2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"For the Shear Fun of it" Charcoal Painting 29" x 21" inch by Casey Baugh
Located in Culver City, CA
"For the Shear Fun of it" Charcoal Painting 29" x 21" inch by Casey Baugh Medium: Charcoal on paper ABOUT THE ARTIST: Baugh's work can be described as narrative impressionistic re...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Waiting Room 2 - Contemporary Expressive, Symbolic Black-White Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Freedom of choice
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Embracing my roots and my cultural background through having a special spiritual connection to the women I depict on my canvases. The theme of women, womanhood and femininity is at ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor

Sisters
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Contemporary portrait "In the Center of the Metropolis"
Located in Sempach, LU
I love walking the streets of the private sector when the weather is nice. It feels like being in a small town rather than in the center of a metropolis. I've aimed to capture the co...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

The ballet angel
Located in Sempach, LU
"A continuation of the ballet topic. A contrasting ballerina portrait. In this artwork I tried the tender interplay of light and shadow. Oil medium allowed me to layer and blend, cra...
Category

2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Brave Girl 15
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Eu...
Category

2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Bakeneko 2.
Located in Oslo, NO
In Japanese culture, magical creatures Bakeneko are supernatural cat yokai known for their shapeshifting abilities, being able to transform into normal cats or even humans.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Modernist Portrait of a Child by NY Artist Syril Frank
Located in Larchmont, NY
Syril Frank (American, 1929-2021) Untitled, c. 1960s Oil on canvas 35 7/8 x 23 3/4 x 3/4 in. Provenance: Estate of the Artist Syril Harriet Frank was born in Brooklyn to Israel and...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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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