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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Street Art
Majesty Is Back (large original painting on canvas)
By Jozza
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by Jozza. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authentici...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,500 Sale Price
50% Off
"Salvador Dalí"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
I was inspired to create this painting by a mirage in the sea. I saw on the horizon, a fantastic city with huge eyes looking at me.
By purchasing Ukrainian art from Ukrainian artists...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Getting on Horse 4, Florance, italy
Located in Hudson, NY
These 4 oil on canvas paintings are in a set of 4 for $8000.00.
“Friends of Friends” explores a playful world where dreams and reality meld together to create surreal moments. Wh...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Smart: Contemporary Surrealist Portrait
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
His time in New York City has ingrained Berlin with the whole vibe of the culture that existed in the city at that time. He is so passionate when talking about it and the lasting eff...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Of The City
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
His time in New York City has ingrained Berlin with the whole vibe of the culture that existed in the city at that time. He is so passionate when talking about it and the lasting eff...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Let's Try This Water Together" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nadezda's beautiful new oil on panel painting "Let's Try This Water Together" (2024) is a surrealist portrait of three small creatures in a dark forest.
Nadezda is a painter, sculpt...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
LOVE AT FIRST PIPE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS
"LOVE FIRST PIPE"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.2006
20 X 16 INCHES
Yuri Martinez Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba on November 24, 1964.
He studied at the Elemental School of Plastic Arts from 1975 – 1979 and the National School of the Arts from 1979 – 1983.
Martinez’ figurative paintings have been compared to Botero because of his satirical social commentary. His style, however, is uniquely his own with typically vibrant Latin colors and use of expressive magical realism. His paintings tell his story and the story of the Cuban dilemma.
Martinez was granted permission by the US Justice Department after much effort with Cuban authorities to come to the US with his family and pursue his career outside Cuba. He now lives and works in Texas.
Papillon Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,688 Sale Price
24% Off
Untitled. 2002, oil on wood, 57x17, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Untitled. 2002, oil on wood, 57x17,5 cm
Man face on red background with flower
Kaspars Perskis (1975)
was born in Riga, Latvia. This is where he stud...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
$845 Sale Price
20% Off
UNTITLED
By Sofia Ruiz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"UNTITLED"
OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS
SIGNED
35.5 X 27.5 INCHES
Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982.
What she expresses through her paintings has to do with whe...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$6,500
"Man Adjusting his Tie", surrealist, green, red, blue, yellow, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Man Adjusting his Tie” is an acrylic painting on canvas 24 x 18 inches in greens and reds with blue and yellow color accents. The disheveled appearance of the man impli...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Gnome"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
In this painting, I've depicted a whimsical world where fantasy and reality blend under a vintage patina. The main figure, a gnome, exudes a contemplative aura, imbued with the myst...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Champagne And Bling! (large original painting on canvas)
By Jozza
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by Jozza. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authentici...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,500 Sale Price
50% Off
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic, Vellum
Pajares 21 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media
Cynthia I, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Ramon Santiago
Located in Long Island City, NY
A mystical portrait of a woman holding a mask in a surreal, dream-like setting by Ramon Santiago.
Artist: Ramon Santiago, American (1943 - 2001)
Title: Cynthia I
Year: 1976
Medium...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"EYE CHECK", surrealist oil painting, nude woman, optical lens, machine, mask
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"EYE CHECK, 2008, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 66x47". At once vulnerable and defiant – a nude woman sits u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Strong Beauty -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa Women Hair, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube.
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Lawrence Amoo (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Oil
Crypto Vincent Van Gogh
Located in OIA, ES
This piece is part of a special collection curated by Saatchi Art, where 154 artists were carefully selected from among hundreds of thousands of Saatchi participants. The premise of ...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
About Glamour (Mickey Mini Simpsons Popeye), huge original painting
By Jozza
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas coated with resin. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by Jozza. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certifi...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Resin
$6,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Death of the Young Men 1938 - British art figurative Surrealist oil painting
By Jack Sassoon
Located in London, GB
This very interesting Surrealist painting is by Jack Sassoon. One can only speculate whether Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), the English war poet, writer an...
Category
1930s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$8,692 Sale Price
20% Off
"The Two Dummies", surrealist, brown, tan, grey, mixed media, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “The Two Dummies” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 32 x 24 x 1.5 inches wide in browns, tans and greys with red and yellow accents. The wooden neck lever of the ventriloquist suggests that he is in reality the dummy of the young boy; and yet, impossibly, both seem to be the dummies of one another! Regardless, the brightness of the props on the prop table...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", oil painting, memory, cat lactation, fantasy, innocence
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", 2014, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". Characteristic of the artist's best work, it featu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Color Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati La Regina
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977)
Oil on board. Colorful woman. La Regina (the Queen)
Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 37" x W 29", (Panel) H 27.5" x W 20"
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings. Light poured in through the sloping glass wall on the north side. A dramatic stairway led to an overhanging balcony which served as a private gallery where the artist hung some of his favorite early works. To the left of the entrance was a smaller studio where Donati sculpted, with a window overlooking the famous old English cemetery where tourists laid flowers on the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In the main studio itself, where Donati received his clients in an atmosphere as polished as an office of a top executive, one hardly realized that it was here that the artist actually painted. His easel was covered with Persian blue velvet, the painting on the easel was already framed, his chair was upholstered in red velvet and on his palette the colors were arranged with the precision of a Byzantine mosaic. In a corner stand were his latest works, framed and ready to be sent off to his next exhibition in Europe or America. He spoke fluent French and English as well as some Spanish and German. “After all”, he said, “you've got to know how to sell...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Aphrodite of Cnidus
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This representation of Aphrodite of Cnido, an iconic figure of mythology and ancient art, undertakes a search for a new personality. Through a careful treatment of color and texture,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Surrealist Acrylic Portraiture Painting, "Timmy" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 12” x 14” x 1.5” Surrealist Acrylic Portrait Painting by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery.
“The Boy In The Iron Mask...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vincent Van Gogh, In Space.
Located in OIA, ES
"Vincent Van Gogh, In Space" redefines the legendary painter as a celestial sovereign, blending classic artistic reverence with futuristic exploration. This 2022 painting offers a visual narrative that launches Van Gogh into the cosmos, adorned not only with an astronaut’s suit...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Reboot" (2023), Original Surrealist Oil Portrait by Jen Starling
Located in Denver, CO
Jen Starling's Surrealist Oil Paiting "Reboot" (2023), is a masterful portrait of a woman, against a dark slate background. The subject's right side and waist begins to fade down int...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"PROGRAMMED", surrealist oil painting, gender, femininity, beauty role archetype
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"PROGRAMMED", 2015, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 20x16". There are conceptual traps laid all over this port...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Painting, "After the Rains"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on panel surrealist painting by San Diego artist, Kelley Sutphin. Its dimensions are 14.4"x26.4"x1.5". It is framed. A certificate of authenticit...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cast Iron Night Life (large original painting)
By Ben Eine
Located in Aventura, FL
Original spray paint on canvas painting. Hand signed, dated and titled on verso by Ben Eine. Canvas size 48 x 48 inches. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Ce...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint
$36,000 Sale Price
25% Off
Family Portrait, Large Surrealist Oil Painting Mother, Children, Neo Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
Hank Laventhol (1927–2001) was an American painter and master print maker. He worked in painting, graphics, sculpture and photography. Associated with ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vicissitudes (Oil Painting, Symbolist, Ancient Cultures, Pop, Surreal, ~47% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae
Vicissitudes
2024
Oil on canvas
Size: 31.49 x 23.62 x inches (80 x 60 cm)
Signed by hand
COA provided
Stella J Richey is an international visual artist and designer. Her...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,444 Sale Price
46% Off
Bloom (Oil Painting, Symbolist, Ancient Cultures, Pop, Surreal, ~47% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae
Bloom
2024
Oil on canvas
Size: 31.49 x 23.62 x inches (80 x 60 cm)
Signed by hand
COA provided
Stella J Richey is an international visual artist and designer. Her works ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,444 Sale Price
46% Off
Alyson
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting by french street-artist SEATY.
Sold framed with a silver wooden floater frame, accompanied with it's certificate of authenticity.
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$10,084 Sale Price
30% Off
A Boy and his Dog Oil and Mixed Media Cuban Hyperrealism Framed
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT OR GALLERY RATE
A Boy and His Dog shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to the world...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
$4,080 Sale Price
40% Off
"Princess Emojii" - Original Figurative Colorful Pop Street Art by Gary John
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Egg Girls on a bike
Located in Zofingen, AG
I’ve written a book based on my Egg people and Characters such as the Conspirators. It is a fantasy novel that takes place in Egg Island and London. The story has a mix of good and bad characters, full of excitement, sadness, and intrigue.
Egg Island is a mysterious place where you can find all sorts of creatures, such as dolphins, including a giant one as big as a ship and one even bigger one that sleeps at the bottom of the sea. Baboons who think they own the place, firebugs light up the village, giant turtles protect kids while swimming, Bright orange coconut crabs...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nature Girl, colorful surrealist bird woman painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful surrealist image of bird woman
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoki...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Portrait, "Hothead"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist portrait painting by San Diego artist, Christopher Polentz. It's dimensions are 9.25"x17.5"x1". It is m...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Vellum
Roller 47 by DeGrupo
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and Aerosol
Original comes framed in a wood frame
13 x 17 x 1.5 inches
Signed by DeGrupo
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Egg Boy on a windy day
Located in Zofingen, AG
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year.
I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Egg girl
Located in Zofingen, AG
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year.
I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
King of Jazz
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ta has a vibrant personality and loves nothing more than a happy toe-tapping audience appreciating melodic jazz. Jazz and lady in red oozes musical finesse and sultry song.
Ta is ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boss getting a hair cut
Located in Zofingen, AG
Welcome to my world of Monkeys and Lions smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red.
Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worl...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) 1940's FRENCH OIL PAINTING - ELDERLY LADY SEWING
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Sewing"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
oil painting on board, dated 1944
board: 19.5 x 10.5 inches
Superb mid-century oil painting on board by the French artist, Genevi...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING -
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
oil painting on board
board: 20 x 10.5 inches
Mid 20th century oil painting on board by the French a...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roller 48 by DeGrupo
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and Aerosol
Original comes framed in a wood frame
13 x 17 x 1.5 inches
Signed by DeGrupo
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING - PORTRAIT OF SEATED MAN
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Seated Man"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
oil painting on board
board: 18 x 14.75 inches
Very fine 20th century oil painting on board by the French artist, Geneviève Z...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
AIWEIWEI by DeGRUPO
Located in New York, NY
TITLE: AIWEIWEI
SIZE: 18X22 INCHES
MEDIUM: ACRYLICS AND AEROSOL ON CANVAS
YEAR:2023
FRAMED WITH WOOD FRAME
SIGNED BY DeGRUPO
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
$2,400 Sale Price
50% Off
Roller 51 by DeGRUPO
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and Aerosol
Original comes framed in a wood frame
17.5 x 21.5 x2.5 inches
Signed by DeGrupo
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Spray Paint
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Roller 52 by DeGRUPO
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and Aerosol
Original comes framed in a wood frame
17.5 x 21.5 x2.5 inches
Signed by DeGrupo
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Spray Paint
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Roller 46 by DeGRUPO
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and Aerosol
Original comes framed in a wood frame
17.5 x 21.5 x2.5 inches
Signed by DeGrupo
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Spray Paint
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Surrealist Ocean Painting, "Jellyfish Dreams"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on panel surrealist painting by San Diego artist, Kelley Sutphin. Its dimensions are 16"x20"x.75. It is unframed. A...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pension Fund
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The picture "Pension Fund" is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy".
100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2019
The picture is ready t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Portrait in Found Frame Titled, "Lennie"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind surrealist acrylic painting in a found frame by San Diego artist, Christopher Polentz. Its dimensions are 15.5x12x3. A sign...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"One Hundred Years" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Austin Howlett's "One Hundred Years" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a larger than life woman reclining in a landscape of mountains. ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Arabian Night, Stylised, Bright Colours, Oil Painting, Signed
By Kate Orr
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Arabian Night, Stylised, Bright Colours, Oil Painting, Signed
By British artist, Kate Orr, 20th Century
Signed by the artist verso
Oil painting on board, framed
Framed size: 23 x 31 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,608 Sale Price
30% Off
Surrealist Crucifixion
By Kate Orr
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Crucifixion
by Kate Orr (British 20th century)
signed lower corner, circa 1990's
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 31 x 25 inches
Superbly painted, Modern British oil pain...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,462 Sale Price
30% Off
Surrealist Oil Painting on Photograph, "Queen of Rain"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a surrealist figurative painting on an original photographic print by local San Diego artist, Evgeniya Golik. Its dimensions are 15.5"x19x2". It comes framed. A certificate o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The sun. Portrait. 1973. Cardboard, oil, 33x46.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The sun. 1973. Cardboard, oil, 33x46.5 cm
Woman portrait in orange colors
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family.
Vladimir Glushenkov...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
$1,776 Sale Price
85% Off
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.
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