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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 18th Century
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Children
Located in Bristol, GB
THE CHILDREN
Size: 36.5 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A richly textured and endearing mid century modernist style figurative portrait, painted in oil onto board.
Rendered ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
An Allegory Of Marriage, 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
An Allegory Of Marriage, 18th Century
English School
Large 18th Century English School allegory of marriage, oil on canvas. Rare allegory of life scene with two married couples on...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Elegant woman portrait with scarf
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian painting of Alphonsus Liguori in French Neo-Gothic Frame
Located in London, GB
Italian painting of Alphonsus Liguori in French Neo-Gothic Frame
Italian and French, Late 18th and 19th Century
Frame: Height 61cm, width 39cm, depth 6cm
Panel: Height 28cm, width 22...
Category
Late 18th Century Gothic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Ink Portrait - The Farmhand
Located in Houston, TX
Ink portrait of a weathered farmhand by Jean Baptiste Grancher, circa 1954. Initialed and artist's stamp lower right.
Original artwork on paper display...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
The Roman Gods In An Allegory Of Love, 18th Century Italian School
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Roman Gods In An Allegory Of Love, 18th Century
Italian School
Large 18th Century Italian School "Allegory of Love" in a panorama of Roman Gods, o...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Cosmopolitan Illustration Surreal Family Narrative
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
A complex story is portrayed in one picture.
American Glamour Illustrator Jon Whitcomb interprets a Mid-Century Cosmopolitan story about a beautiful blond actress who, on set, appea...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Portrait Of Lady Grace Jackson, 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Mary Anne Ward (1725-1754) In Riding Attire, 18th Century
School of Henry Pickering (1720-1770)
Large 18th English portrait of Mary Anne Ward ...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Editor and Typist - Mid Century Women's Magazine Illustration Naive art
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox was a pioneering female Illustrator/artist who championed a unique style immediately identified as hers. This work, in two parts, was most likely for a newsstand woman's...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Portrait Of John Parker, 1st Lord Boringdon (1735-1788), 18th century
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of John Parker, 1st Lord Boringdon (1735-1788), 18th century
School of Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Large 18th portrait of John Parker, 1st Lord Boringdon, oil on canvas. E...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Levantine Merchant, 18th Century. Italian school.
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a Levantine Merchant, 18th Century
Italian school.
Oil on canvas.
Circle of Giuseppe Nogari (1699-1763)
Dimensions with frame cm 71 x 5...
Category
18th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French school 20th Century, Portrait of a young man in green, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 20th Century,
Portrait of a young man in green,
oil on cardboard panel, cradled on the back
53 x 40 cm
This intense portrait is particularly moving and intere...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century portrait oil painting of a girl with an orange
By Robert Byng
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Robert Byng
British, (1666-1720)
Girl with Orange
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29 inches x 24 inches
Size including frame: 36 inches x 31 inc...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman Washing Clothes In The River, 17th Century
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Blackwater, GB
Woman Washing Clothes In The River, 17th Century
circle of Francesco GUARDI (1712-1793)
Fine large Italian Old Master landscape view of figures in a ...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PORTRAIT OF COURT MUSICIAN JOSEF LEMBERGER (1667-1740) Hungarian School
Located in Blackwater, GB
PORTRAIT OF COURT MUSICIAN JOSEF LEMBERGER (1667-1740)
Hungarian School
Large 18th Century Hungarian Portrait of court musician Josef Lemberger, oil on canvas. Superb quality and early important...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Oil Painting Portrait of Phillip, 6th Viscount Wenman.
By Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Located in London, GB
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1750-1811) was an English portrait painter and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Justly celebrated in his lifetime he won several...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School, Portrait of a Lady, Actress, Young Woman, French , Rococo, Oval
Located in Greven, DE
French Art
Rococo
Portrait of a Woman, Young Lady, perhaps an actress
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Below Deck
By Tom Lovell
Located in Miami, FL
Charles Martignette
Heritage Auctions, This is a Wonderfully rendered work with high level of detail and color saturation. Norman Rockwellesqu...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Rococo painting with frame by 18th-century Venetian school oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (with a Salvador Rosa-style gilded frame 88 x 116 cm) depicts a group of four children who are playing outside on a swinging seesaw; we are probably dealing with a prank, as can be seen by the satisfied expression of the child on the right at the expense of the one in the foreground, who seems to be supported by the others, perhaps because of the fear felt.
They are dressed in the same way, with black or brown ankle boots and a kind of double-breasted jumpsuit with a rich lace collar reminiscent of the jabots of dames, blue for the one in the foreground, brick-colored for the other three.
Children also look alike in the hair, typical of the period, and features, suggesting a kinship relationship.
We find the same subject, for example, in Johann Zoffany...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Champagne for the Honeymoon
Located in Miami, FL
Pruett Carter captures the quintessential look of the 1950's in this loosely rendered but charming work for Redbook. Bright, punchy colors define each object and are arranged in a simplified but complex composition of intersecting and overlapping planes of color.
The double portrait of the girl expresses a peak moment of introspection. She ponders her situation while preparing to get dressed for her special occasion. The whole scene is imbued with suspense about her future. Carter is a great academic painter. With just a few light touches of the brush, he quickly defines the form of the subject and achieves the X factor of the work. The profile and frontal view of the girl clearly are the same person. He nails her look. This is hard to do. Do not underestimate it. Sadly, there is a reason why there are very few contemporary artists can actually paint and draw without tracing photographs or resort to naive painting. It's hard to do. It's hard to be a painter. You can not fake...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eminent Women, Illustration for McCall's Magazine, May 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration celebrating important women throughout history, published in McCall's magazine, May 1959.
This large canvas by Stanley Meltzoff presents a compelling tribute to influen...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
18th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Follower of Enoch Seeman the Younger
German, (1694-1744)
Portrait of Gilbert Sympkin
Oil on canvas
Image size: 29.25 inches x 24.5 inches
Size including frame: 38 inches x 33.25 inches
A fine three quarter length portrait of a gentleman traditionally identified as Gilbert Simpkin (Sympkin), follower of Enoch Seeman the younger, C1720. The portrait is set in a feigned sculptured oval cartouche, a device used to give a sense of depth. The sitter is depicted wearing a fashionable blue jacket and matching waistcoat with a white chemise and lace jabot. He wears a powdered wig in the fashionable style of the day and is posed holding his hat under his left arm with the fingers of his right hand stretched out. At court, long fingers signified wealth, culture and intelligence. The painting has clearly been executed by an artist of great ability who has been influenced by Enoch Seeman the younger.
Gilbert Simpkin (Sympkin) was born in London on 24 August 1683, the son of John Simpkin and Susannah Butler. His grandfather was also called Gilbert Simpkin. He entered Oxford University in 1700 where he studied at St John’s College. In 1702, he became a student of Middle Temple, which at the time was one of the world’s most important centres of legal education. He later settled in Plymouth and then Bristol. He died in Bristol on 15 May, 1744 and was buried at Bristol Cathedral. He remained unmarried and the portrait may well have been commissioned to commemorate when he was first Called to the Bar or perhaps had established his own practice.
Enoch Seeman or Seemann the younger was born in Danzig, Germany now Gdansk, Poland in 1694. His father was Enoch Seeman Senior, an artist of Flemish origin and his brothers Isaac, Noah and Abraham also became artists. He came to London with his father and brothers around 1704 and established himself as a portrait artist. From 1717 he became painter to the Royal court painting...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of George Farington, East India Company, 18th Century
By Arthur Devis
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of George Farington, East India Company, 18th Century
attributed to Arthur DEVIS (1712-1787)
One of a matching pair - the other is belie...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ballantine Beer Ad. Mid-Century American Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Only Ballantine Ale Brews "Brewer's Gold," ad illustration appeared in the major magazines of the day. A magic moment is caught at a peak point of drama.
It's the instant of friends having fun.
A cold beer from the fridge is offered and it's is acknowledged with a head nod.
The woman in the foreground covers her giggling face reacting to a funny comment.
The decisive moment is preserved.
Sounds like a critique of an art photograph?
No, it's an illustrator.
This ingenious Infiniti "S" composition simultaneously represents the best of photography and painting.
Cartier-Bresson could have captured the precise moment.
While Nicolas Poussin could have rendered the complex figural composition.
Add to it , a painting technique and color scheme with the quick drama of a post-impressionist.
We have a great work of art by an overlooked American illustrator/artist/painter, Mike Ludlow...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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
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
Saint John the Baptist & Saint Benedict after Bartolomeo Montagna (1450-1523)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Saint John the Baptist & Saint Benedict, 18th Century
Diptych after lost work by Bartolomeo Montagna (1450-1523)
Large 18th Century Italian Old Master depiction of Saint John the B...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of Gertrude Durnford, Lady Alston (1731-1807), 18th Century
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Gertrude Durnford, Lady Alston (1731-1807), 18th Century
Studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Large 18th Century English portrait ...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Geisha Girl, Pan American World Airways Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1956
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Paperboard
Dimensions: 18.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed with the Artist's Initials 'N/R' Lower Right
Pan American World Airways advertising campaign
Exhibitions
West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Pencil
Mid century English portrait of a Boxer dog standing in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
This late mid-century English portrait of a Boxer dog standing proudly in a pastoral landscape is a striking and characterful piece that embodies both elegance and charm. The artist ...
Category
1950s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude woman reading, seated
Located in Woodbury, CT
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude woman seated reading in an interior.
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during t...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1800’s French Rococo Oil Portrait of Young Girl Pink Bow Blue Dress to restore
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, Rococo period original
Likely to be a preparatory sketch for a larger piece.
oil painting on canvas laid on board, framed
framed: 1...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Sombre Gentlemen, Mid 20th C. Male Portrait, Original Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sombre Gentlemen, Male Portrait, Original Impressionist Oil Painting
British School, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 18 x 24 inches
Incredibly stylish p...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of A Wet Nurse & Baby, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Wet Nurse & Baby, 17th Century
Rare & Unusual English School Portrait
Large 17th Century English School portrait of a wet nurse and baby breastfeeding, oil on canva...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, Early 18th Century Oil Painting
By Dominicus van der Smissen
Located in London, GB
Dominicus van der Smissen
Early 18th Century
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20½ x 16¼ inches
Period gilt frame
This is a portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, composer, Kapellmeister and organist, whom Van der Smissen most probably portrayed during his stay in Hamburg, Brunswick or Amsterdam. The identification is based on the reproduction of the portrait which was engraved by Pieter Anthony Wakkerdak (1740- 1774).
Van der Smissen has reduced the face of the sitters to an egg-shaped oval in three-quarter view, applying diminution to one half of the figure’s torso, which is farther away from the viewer. This partial side view, with the head turned to look at the viewer over the shoulder, creates spatial depth and brings the figure to life by avoiding the stiffness of a frontal depiction.
Because the artist chose to highlight the figure from above, a distinct shadow is cast under the tip of the nose, in the shape of a triangle. This is an often recurring and almost ‘signature’-like feature in Van der Smissen’s oeuvre.
Hurlebusch's garments are of a very high quality and serve to reflect the sitter’s wealth, status and elegance. During this period, gentlemen often shaved their heads in order to facilitate the wearing of a wig, which wouldbe worn with a suit. Here Hurlebusch has been depicted in a luxurious turban-like cap lined with lynx fur, a highly fashionable and expensive material at the time.
Over his shirt, he wears a velvet fur-lined gown adorned with decorative clasps fashioned from silver braid. The elegant informality of his appearance can be seen in his unbuttoned shirt and the unfastened black ribbon hanging from his button hole, which has been artfully arranged into a fluttering drape by the portraitist.
The Sitter
Hurlebusch was born in Brunswick, Germany. He received the first instructions in his field from his father Heinrich Lorenz Hurlebusch, who was also a musician. As an organ virtuoso, he toured Europe, visiting Vienna, Munich and Italy.
From 1723 to 1725 he was Kapellmeister in Stockholm; later he became Kapellmeister in Bayreuth and Brunswick, and lived in Hamburg from 1727 to 1742, where he had contact with fellow composers Johann Mattheson and Georg Philipp Telemann. He made his living composing, performing and teaching.
In 1735 and 1736, he is believed to have visited Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, who promoted Hurlebusch’s compositions as the local seller...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
lying woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 86x114 cm.
Josep Maria Mallol i Suazo (Barcelona, 1910 - Barcelona, 1986) is a well-known painter whom critics pointed out as one of the main names in non-avant-g...
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Lady
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm)
Original gilt swept frame
This portrait is marked by its loose brushwork, which creates a sense of hazy nostalgia. Despite th...
Category
Late 18th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mme de Noirmont", Oil on Canvas Portrait, circa 18th Century
By (circle of) Nicolas de Largillierre
Located in Detroit, MI
This painting titled "Mme de Noirmont" is an oil on canvas work from the studio of Nicolas de Largilliere, one of the most prolific and esteemed French portrait painters of the 18th ...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Adhesive, Oil
Rabbi and Torah, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Rabbi and Torah
Year: circa 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 16 x 12 inches
Frame Size: 26 x 20 inches
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Bleu", Albert Bertalan, Original Oil, Blue, Figurative
Located in Dallas, TX
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Bleu" is an original oil on canvas impressionistic portrait of a woman by Albert Bertalan. A red-headed lady sits with her hand pressed upon her cheek thoughtfully thinking in front of a blue background. The painting is framed with an ornate gold frame.
From the late 19th century until World War Two, Paris was the center of the art world. Artists and intellectuals from around the globe descended on Paris, drawn by the atmosphere of creative freedom established by the French Impressionists. Because of the Impressionists’ innovations the direction of art had changed forever, the times were ripe for another Renaissance. The School of Paris, as this broad-based group of artists are referred to embodied the spirit of modernism.
Albert Bertalan was born on September 21, 1899 in Jaszbereny, Hungary. He is known for painting compositions of figures in unique environments, including women by the sea, among other similar subject matters. He studied at the Nagybanyai Art School under some of the most important Hungarian artists, including Ivànyi Grünwald...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Paper
Portrait of a Gentleman in Grey Coat & White Cravat, Oil on canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
This exquisite work, presented by Titan Fine Art, is by the notable artist Hans Hysing, who was a noteworthy painter in England; it is significant in its q...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl Of Mornington, circa 1800
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl Of Mornington, circa 1800
Circle of Sir Thomas LAWRENCE (1769-1830)
Large circa 1800 English Regency portrait traditionally identified ...
Category
Late 18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arabian Nights - Guard and Sitting King - Islamic Golden Age - Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
One Thousand and One Nights - It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. What is notable about this work is how magnificently composed, designed, and rendered it is. Its l...
Category
1950s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Bay Area Figurative Movement Portrait of a Woman in Oil on Artist's Board 1950s
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Figurative Movement Portrait of a Woman in Oil on Artist's Board 1950s
Portrait of a woman man by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The woman is looking directly at the viewer, with a neutral expression. She has dark hair and a slender nose, and is wearing a blue dress. A distinctive bay area figurative movement portrait by well known San Francisco artist Honora Berg.
Signed "H. Berg" in on verso.
Stamp from Miller Fine Art on verso
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Initialed and numbered "HB 122 " on verso
Unframed.
Board size: 24.75"H x 19"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Illustration Board
untitled ( Civil Rights )
Located in Miami, FL
Evergood is decades ahead of his time in shouting out against racial injustice. Painted in the late 1950's KKK is an important work. For Philip Evergood (born Philip Blashki), pain...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self-Portrait of the Artist
Located in London, GB
'Self-Portrait of the Artist', oil on canvas, by Lilian E. Whitteker (1952). This may be the only self-portrait (or portrait) of Lilian Whitteker as her favourite subjects to paint w...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
" A Derilick" Down and out on His Luck
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5106 Down and out oil on board by Westhayer 1957
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Artist’s Self Portrait Oil Painting - Urban vs Rural Social Commentary
Located in Baltimore, MD
Baltimore-born Thaddeus Haduch was mainly known as a landscape artist. He was born to Polish immigrant parents in East Baltimore in 1905. It seems that he lived his entire life in a...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
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
Eisenhower, Time magazine cover Time magazine cover, July 4, 1955 ( alternate)
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches.
A noble portrait of Ike as President is depicted against a ringing Liberty Bell. In the...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event.
Signed lower left
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Most likey for the Sa...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Dutch School original oil painting on canvas, Genre scene
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a phenomenal Antique “Dutch School” original oil painting on canvas, depicting a genre scene. "By A. Van Ostade" - written on the back of the canvas (Ostade was a Du...
Category
Early 1700s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a priest Prémontré
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
French school around 1760
Portrait of a Premonstratensian
Oil on canvas
H. 81 cm ; W. 65 cm
Traces of signature at the top left
Provenance: Private collection, Versailles
While the...
Category
1760s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christ and John the Baptist the Apostle Peter Saint Augustine of Hippo TRIPTYCH
Located in Blackwater, GB
Christ and John the Baptist, the Apostle Peter, and Saint Augustine of Hippo, triptych
After Pinturicchio (1454-1513)
Large Italian Renaissance triptych...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Grand Mother and Grand Son Read Emotional Letter
Located in Miami, FL
Crockwell is as good as Rockwell. Many would agree with that statement including the editors of the Saturday Evening Post in which both artists were frequent contributors. In fact, ...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Portrait of Young Girl Gouache Painting by Max Moreau
By Max Moreau
Located in Atlanta, GA
1950s portrait, gouache on paper painting by Belgian artist Max Moreau (1902 - 1992).
This is a finely detailed portrait of a lovely young girl looking like a good child from right a...
Category
1950s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of a Young Boy, Titled "Boy", Original Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Boy, Titled "Boy", Original Impressionist Oil Painting
By the British artist, JM Green, Mid 20th Century
Signed and titled 'Boy' verso
Oil painting on board, unfr...
Category
1950s 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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