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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1930s
Woman and Child - Old Master Regency portrait painting Mother carrying infant
Located in London, GB
A superb, large Regency circa 1820 portrait of the finest quality. It depicts a lovely young woman holding a child on her back. The portrait is framed behind glass in a magnificent d...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Portrait of a Lady with Lace Collar - British 19th century art oil painting
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
This very charming British 19th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Thomas Lawrence. Painted circa 1810 it is a seated half length portrait of a l...
Category
1810s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of A Child As Lord Nelson, 19th Century FRANK THOMAS COPNALL
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Child As Lord Nelson, 19th Century
FRANK THOMAS COPNALL (1870–1949) - one of a pair
oil on canvas by Frank Thomas Copnall. Leading example of Copnall's work of a yo...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Young Boy in Red Coat - British Victorian 1892 art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This charming British Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted portrait artist Gilbert Baldry. A half length portrait painted in 1892, the sitter is a young boy in a red coat with...
Category
1890s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Soldier's Farewell - Scottish Victorian art Interior portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Scottish interior genre oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Robert Gemmell Hutchison. Painted circa 1890 Hutchison painted several versions of this scene of a young ...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Framed Chinese Emperor and Empress Reverse Glass Paintings
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Immerse yourself in the regal allure of Chinese history with this captivating pair of framed reverse glass paintings depicting a Chinese Emperor and Empress...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass
David Tägtström, Hegert, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Swedish artist David Tägtström (1894-1981) depicts a seated woman referred to as ‘Hegert’.
Leaning forward as if listening intently to a fami...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Seated Young Woman - British 30's art Impressionist oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely portrait was painted by the noted British Impressionist portrait painter Walter Ernest Webster. It depicts a young woman and was painted circa 1930 in an impressionist pa...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Girl in Straw Hat - British Victorian art Newlyn School oil painting
By Frank Bramley
Located in London, GB
Newlyn School, circle of Frank Bramley is the attribution for this lovely Victorian portrait oil painting. Painted circa 1890 on panel, it is a head and shoulders portrait of a young girl in a straw hat...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Taking Tea" 19th Century Orientalism Portrait Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Jacksonville, FL
"Taking Tea" by Jan-Baptist Huysmans, an accomplished Orientalist painter of the 19th century, unveils a captivating world in his oil painting on panel. Born in 1826, Huysmans was re...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of a Flower Seller - British 19th century Victorian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This charming British Victorian portrait oil painting is by artist Harry Leslie Baldry. It was painted in 1887 when Baldry was based in London. The composition is a three quarter len...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Gossip - Scottish 19thC art Victorian oil painting young romantic couple
By William Fettes Douglas
Located in London, GB
A fine Victorian Scottish genre oil on canvas painting which dates to 1868 and is titled The Gossip by famous Scottish artist William Fettes Douglas RSA. It is a stunning depiction o...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Baby and Dog - British Victorian Genre animal art oil painting
By Henry Turner Munns
Located in London, GB
This charming British Victorian genre oil painting is by attributed to noted exhibited artist Henry Turner Munns. Painted circa 1870 the composition is of a baby by a hearth, asleep ...
Category
1870s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ottoman Barbary Pirates Raid, 19th Century circle of Eugène Delacroix (1798-186
Located in Blackwater, GB
Ottoman Barbary Pirates Raid, 19th Century
circle of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
Large 19th Century scene following a raid by Ottoman pirates with a woman tied to the mast as the ...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Paysanne dans un bois
By Leon Richet
Located in Barbizon, FR
"Paysanne dans un bois", oil painting on wooden panel, signed in the bottom left corner, 48.9x32.4cm.
Origin:
-Christie's New York, sale on May 29th 1981, lot no. 24
-Rindoko Museum, in Tochigi, Japan
-Private collection in 2020, after sale Museum collection
As a young man, Richet followed painting classes from Détrez, an old student of Léon Cogniet's. In Paris, he built a friendship with Teinturier (painter from Valencia) and became a student of Jules Lefebvre's but most importantly the disciple of Narcisse Diaz de La Pena, with whom he collaborated ( some canvas bare both their signatures). They both share a remarkable audacity in their enameled way of treating reflections of light on water as well as the the effects of the sun on the clouds. At the Salon de Paris...
Category
19th Century Barbizon School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Death of the Young Men 1938 - British art figurative Surrealist oil painting
By Jack Sassoon
Located in London, GB
An oil on canvas painted by Jack Sassoon which was certainly a premonition of what was to come. Entitled Death of the Young Men and dated 1938, it depicts men in gas masks and a woma...
Category
1930s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cecily Byrne as Mary Stewart - British art 30's actress portrait oil painting
By George Carr Drinkwater
Located in London, GB
Painted by George Carr Drinkwater, this vibrant oil on canvas depicts the actress of stage and screen Cecily Byrne as Mary Stuart. Painted circa 1930 it is a stunning evocative portrait of an actress who was famous throughout the 1930’s. A fine portrait of a long forgotten film star. Cecily Byrne (1889-1975) was an actress, known for Loyalties, Henry IV and Brown Sugar...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Woman - Pre-Raphaelite Victorian drawing girl white collar
Located in London, GB
This beautiful Victorian pencil drawing dates to around 1890 and is by an unknown hand. It is a head and shoulders portrait of a young lady gazing to her right. Her dark hair is tied...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Artist in his Studio - French 19th century art figurative interior oil painting
By Adolphe Monticelli
Located in London, GB
This lovely French 19th century figurative Impressionist oil painting is by Adolphe Monticelli. Painted circa 1870 the painting depicts a group of seven figures amusing themselves in...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Famous American Artist John O'Brien Inman (1828-1896) O/C Antique 1864 Portrait
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is an original antique 1864 oil painting on canvas by Famous American Artist John O'Brien Inman (1828-1896), depicting a portrait of a seated baby.
Signature on verso "Painted by Jho. O'B Inman Portlana Jan 18th 64"
The painting is in good/antique condition, minor stable craquelures.
Presented in an ornate vintage gilded frame. Please see the photos, the photos are part of the description.
Measures with the frame 41" X 34.5", painting 30" x 25".
Free insured shipping. Free delivery in 200 miles from Boston.
Please read some interesting information about Artist...
Category
1860s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Barbara
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Augustus Edwin John (Welsh, 1878-1961). Portrait of Barbara, ca. 1930. oil on canvas, 11 5/8 x 14 5/8 inches. Framed dimension: 16 x 19 inches....
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
French Breton Lady - British Victorian Post Impressionist portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
A stunning British Post-Impressionist portrait oil painting by noted British artist William Lee Hankey. He was a very interesting painter who travelled widely throughout Europe capt...
Category
19th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Emma Woods - British Victorian art oil painting noted female artist
Located in London, GB
This stunning British Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Annie Louisa Swynnerton. The sitter is Emma Woods, nee King (1806-1896). Emma was the wife of Samuel ...
Category
1890s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil On Canvas, Art Nouveau XIX century Portrait Lady With Oval Frame
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas, Art Nouveau XIX Portrait Lady With Oval Frame"
Oil on canvas Portrait of a lady, Art Nouveau style, signed Gustav Julius GRÜN (1823-1896)
German school of the 19th c...
Category
1880s Jugendstil Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Summer Beauty - British Victorian genre art female portrait oil painting
By Edwin Roberts
Located in London, GB
This lovely portrait oil painting is by much exhibited British artist Edwin Roberts. The painting is an excellent example of Victorian romantic genre art and is of a Summer Beauty. T...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man Reading Newspaper - Orientalist art 19th century portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This striking large Orientalist oil portrait painting is by a talented Turkish School artist from the late 19th century. The portrait is extremely well painted, dating to circa 1890 ...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Chlorinda with Letter - British art Victorian genre oil painting
By George Wells
Located in London, GB
This charming oil portrait painting is by noted British Victorian artist George Wells. Painted circa 1880 we know the elegant sitter is Chlorinda but her relationship to Wells is unk...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Folk Art Portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel British Inventor Engineer
Located in Rochester, NY
Early 19th century American portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel. Brunel was a well known British inventor and engineer. He is credit...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil
A Quick Repair - British art 1880 interior oil painting children clock Horology
By Frederick George Pasmore
Located in London, GB
This charming Victorian genre oil painting is by noted British artist Frederick George Pasmore junior. The painting is full of rich colour and tells a story. The scene is a detailed ...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century portrait, painting of father and daughter
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century portrait, painting of father and daughter. Oil on canvas. No visible signature. 28 x 36 unframed, 33.25 x 41 framed.
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Classical French TURKISH Orientalist Beauty Painting of a Woman w/ Mandolin
Located in New York, NY
Francois Martin-Kavel (1861 - 1931) was active/lived in France. He was a profiling painter of woman, especially orientalism
His auction records have exceeded over $20,000
Such a ...
Category
1880s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hippolyte-Pierre Delanoy (1849-1899) - 1878 Oil, Studious Sitters
By Hippolyte Pierre Delanoy
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming portrait depicting two opulently dressed women sitting for a portrait. They pour over a large, illustrated book in a panelled interior with a fresh vase of flowers to thei...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 19th century British figure painting - Girl’s portait with cat - English
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (late 19th century) - Little girl with kitten.
61 x 50cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Original canvas. Good state of conservat...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Dutch Girl with Goat - Laren School 19thC pastoral oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful 19th century Dutch oil painting is by noted artist Willem or more often Willy Martens. Painted circa 1890 it is very much in the style of the Laren School. The Laren S...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Boy Playing a Flute - 18th/19th century art Old Master oil painting
Located in London, GB
This interesting painting is a British Old Master late 18th century or early 19th century oil painting attributed to Thomas Barker of Bath. It is stylistically very similar to his ot...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Rebekah at the Well', Follower of Luca Giordano, Early 19th Century Figural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early 19th century, figural oil of a young woman with chestnut hair, shown wearing a headscarf and glancing towards the viewers left. A detail from a copy of 'Rebeca at the Well',...
Category
19th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Lady in Pink - Victorian Impressionist art female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
An original circa 1890 oil on canvas which is unsigned and attributed to the circle of James Abbot McNeil Whistler. A fine late Victorian portrait oil painting. It depicts a stunnin...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blessing the Harvest - Belgian 19thC art figurative Victorian oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning arched top Victorian figurative oil painting is by noted Belgian artist Charles Soubre. It was painted in 1853 and is signed and date lower right. The composition is a ...
Category
1850s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Marquesa De Escombreras - French 19thC art female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb French Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted French society painter Jules-Elie Delaunay. Painted in 1883 it is a three-quarter length profile portrait of the Marquesa de Escombreras. Her full name was Trinidad Maria Piedad Fulgenico de Aguirre. She was born in 1824 in Cartagena, Spain, the seventh and last child of Jose de Aguirre, a retired naval officer. On October 22nd 1843 she married Frenchman Hilarion Roux (1819-1898) who was a banker from Marseille who settled in Cartegena in January 1843. After her marriage she was known as Trinidad Roux. Hilarion Roux had arrived in Cartagena first to trade silver. He quickly became one of the main lead industrialists in Catagena then in the Mediterranean area. The couple later lived in France again, in Marseille and later in Paris, where Trinidad died in 1905 aged 81. Interestingly there is no similar portrait of her husband.
In this superb painting, the Marquesa, aged about 60 in reality, is wearing a black off the shoulder dress...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian School Mid 19th Century Oil - Lady in Half-Mourning
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming portrait study depicting a Victorian woman in half-mourning. He wears a traditional black dress to symbolise her grief along with smaller details such as the mourning ring...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Dog Painting of a Terrier by Jules Chardigny (1849-1892) Circa 1870
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting of a Terrier
Jules Chardigny (1849-1892)
Circa 1870
Oil on wood panel
8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 frame) inches
This is one of several examples of dogs being painted in this precise style as face-on with a mirthful expression that we've located. The examples all seemingly date to around 1870 and were painted by several artists all who rather contemporaneous of one another; Louis...
Category
1870s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a man with a chechia
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature
Work on canvas
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Catalan peasant oil on canvas painting spanish
By Luis Graner Y Arrufi
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil mesures 36x23 cm.
Frameless.
Restored.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait of an Irish Red Setter Dog - British Victorian animal art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous British Victorian dog portrait oil painting is by noted animal artist George Denholm Armour. Painted in 1886 it is a lovely portrait of a red Irish Setter dog. The dog ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Seaside Resort of Dieppe' Vintage Oil Painting
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'The Seaside Resort of Dieppe', oil on board, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Located on the scenic French Alabaster Coast, Dieppe has a long and fascinating history of seafaring, kno...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Mrs Willis - British 30's art exhibited oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
This beautiful British exhibited portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Alice Mary Burton. Painted circa 1935, the sitter is noted verso to be Mrs Willis. The painting was e...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1870's French Portrait of Man with Moustache Possibly Self Portrait Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man with Moustache
believed to be a self portrait of the artist
French School, circa 1870's
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 20.5 x 17 inches
canvas: 18 x 15 inches
proven...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christ in the House of His Parents The Carpenters Workshop Antique English Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Carpenters Workshop
British School, late 19th century
based on the Pre-Raphaelite painting by Millais
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 27.5 x 39 inches
canvas: 24 x 36 inches
proven...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beautiful 1930's French Signed Oil Portrait Lady Purple Dress Blue & Pink Back
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady in Purple Dress against a Pink and Blue Wallpaper background
French School, circa 1930's
signed lower front corner
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
p...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Flower Girl
Located in St. Albans, GB
Louise Abbéma
1853–1927
Louise Abbéma (30 October 1853[1] – 10 July 1927) was a French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque.
Abbéma was born in Étampes, Essonne
Born into a wealthy aristocratic Parisian family with close ties to the city’s artistic community, She began painting in her early teens, and studied under such notables of the period as Charles Joshua Chaplin, Jean-Jacques Henner and Carolus-Duran. Portraits of actors and actresses at the Comédie Française dominated her early works until she made a name for herself at the Salon of 1876 with her portrayal of the “Divine Sarah.” Abbéma ultimately executed multiple portraits and received recognition for her work at age 23 a bronze medallion of Sarah Bernhardt, with whom she was a close friend and possibly lover.
Like most women artists of the time, Abbéma focused mainly on portraiture and genre scenes (images of everyday life). Her high-society portraits executed with a light touch and rapid brushstrokes reveal the academic and Impressionist influences that shaped her style. Her sitters included French diplomats and other notable members of society. Abbéma developed a variety of techniques using oil paints, pastel, and watercolor, and worked on various supports, including fans.
Abbéma received commissions for panels and murals which adorned the Paris Town Hall, the Paris Opera House, numerous theatres including the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and the "Palace of the Colonial Governor" at Dakar, Senegal. Abbéma solidified her international reputation after exhibiting works, including two wall murals (on canvas), at the Women’s Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. A bust of Sarah Bernhardt sculpted by Abbéma was also exhibited at the exposition.
Abbéma specialized in oil portraits and watercolors, and many of her works showed the influence from Chinese and Japanese painters, as well as contemporary masters such as Édouard Manet. She frequently depicted flowers in her works.
Among her best-known works are The Seasons, April Morning, Place de la Concorde, Among the Flowers, Winter, and portraits of actress Jeanne Samary, Emperor Dom Pedro...
Category
1890s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Signed American Impressionist 19th Century Genre Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
1890s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady with bun and lace scarf
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature
Work on canvas
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Woman with Jewelry
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Richard Clague was sent to school in Geneva to study painting with Jean-Charles Ferdinand Humbert (1813-1881) where Richard developed a preference for landscape painting. Following his father's death in December, 1836, he received a substantial inheritance which allowed him to continue his studies. After completing his studies, he travelled to Morocco, Algiers and other destinations in the Middle East where he kept a sketchbook (now in the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana) and developed an interest in Oriental subject matter. Although he was largely trained in Europe, he settled in Louisiana, becoming part of the "Bayou School".He regularly painted with William Buck...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charity - Royal Academy exhib. 19thC art Pre-Raphaelite portrait oil painting
By Rudolf Lehmann
Located in London, GB
This stunning circular 19th century oil painting is by noted prolific Royal Academy exhibited artist Rudolf Lehmann. A portrait artist, German born Lehmann moved to England in 1866 w...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Pink Bonnet - Scottish art oil pastel portrait painting of artist's wife
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous Scottish 1930's soft focus and sensual pastel oil painting is by noted artist John Bulloch Souter. It was painted in 1931 and the sitter is the artist's beautiful wife...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
19th century portrait military officer 5th Royal Lancashire Militia, East Lancs
Located in York, GB
A fine 19th century oil on canvas portrait stated to be Captain Paul John Henry Butler, 5th Royal Lancashire Militia, half length, wearing breast star. Hou...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with red shawl and muslin headdress
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seated Female Nude Portrait - British 1930's portrait oil painting Empire frame
By Harold Knight
Located in London, GB
This superb British nude portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Harold Knight. Painted circa 1930, it is a seated study of a nude woman in soft focus, arms raised to on...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil
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