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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1970s
19th Century French School - Portrait of a Young Maiden, ca 1840
Located in Baltimore, MD
This French School portrait of a lovely young maiden is quite charming. It is not signed but is clearly by an accomplished hand. The young woman's facial expression of innocence an...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Mrs Anne Neale Tucker Lauzun - British Old Master art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Old Master portrait oil painting is painted in the manner of Sir Henry Raeburn. Painted circa 1800, the sitter is Anne Neale Tucker Lauzun. She was born in St Geo...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
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
The School Room - Flemish 19th century art interior genre oil painting children
Located in London, GB
This charming Flemish genre oil painting is attributed to Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder. Painted circa 1850 it is a fine realist genre scene of the interior of a school room, a t...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
By The Light Of The Lantern, 19th Century European Oreintalist School
Located in Blackwater, GB
By The Light Of The Lantern, 19th Century
European Oreintalist School
Large 19th Century European Orientalist portrait of a woman at night illuminated by her lantern, oil on panel....
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman in a Bowler Hat - British late 19th century art
Located in London, GB
This charming British male portrait oil painting is of a gentleman in an iconic bowler hat. Painted circa 1880 it is a wonderful soft focus realistic image of a man in a suit with a wide pale blue tie and handkerchief in pocket. We can also just see the chain of his pocket watch. He is positioned again a wall with wonderful brushwork. A really fantastic painting in a stunning gilded oak frame...
Category
1880s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique British Dog Oil Painting Portrait of Dalmatian Dog Signed & dated 1896
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Dalmatian Dog
by Adrienne Lester, British 1870-1955
signed & dated 1896
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 27 x 32.5 inches
canvas: 25 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection
condi...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
18/19-th Century French Antique Original Oil Painting on canvas, Rococo, Framed
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is a fabulous Oil on canvas painting. French, late 18th to early 19th century. The artwork depicts a gallant scene, a shepherdess, and her lover resting in the forest. This stunning impressive piece of art is waiting to be a part of your collection. Collectible European Classical Paintings, Rococo, And Romanticism in Fine Art
More photos are available upon request.
Overall in very good condition.
Please see the photos, they are part of the description.
The painting is presented in a nice vintage ornate frame...
Category
Early 19th Century Rococo 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 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
19 century, Original Antique Oil Painting in canvas, Female Portrait
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is a very interesting antique 19th-century original oil painting on canvas depicting a woman who overlooks a parapet and touches a bottle placed on it. With her right han...
Category
Early 19th Century Renaissance Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of an elegant lady sitting
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed Late 19th Century Oil - Two Sisters Embracing
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful late 19th century portrait of two young sisters embracing. The elder looks out at the viewer with an angelic smile while her younger sister looks into the distance. Well ...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Hippolyte-Pierre Delanoy (1849-1899) - 1878 Oil, Studious Sitters
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
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
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
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
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
Dutch woman reading a book, Carl Schmitz-Pleis, Oil paint/canvas, Impressionist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Germany, 1877-1943
Carl Schmitz-Pleis, originally Karl Schmitz (21 September 1877, Hennef – 1943, Düsseldorf) was a German painter.
Carl Schmitz-Pleis studied at the Düsseldorf Art ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
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
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
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
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 man with white hair
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Plaster and gilded wood frame
66 x 59 x 9 cm
Fragile frame for transport.
It is possible that it is damaged during the journey.
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
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
Huge Antique Oil Painting Portrait of Mrs Boone & Daughter after lost original
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
After SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
(1723 -1792)
Portrait of Mrs Boone and her Daughter
Oil on Canvas
Canvas Size : 55.25 x 43.25 inches (140 x 110 cms)
Framed size : 62 x 50 inches (157.5 x 127 cms)
Provenance : Private Collection, France
This present picture is a good quality copy of a Reynolds original. Copies are notoriously
difficult to date, but judging by the style and the materials used it is most probable that we are
dealing with a picture painted between 1890 and 1920. The professional standard of the work
makes this painting a fine and substantial piece of decoration in the 18th century English
manner. But in this case there is more…
The Reynolds original was painted around 1774-6 and depicts Harriet Boone, wife of Charles
Boone with their daughter, also Harriet – later the wife of Sir William Drummond K.C. This
picture was by 1865 in the collection of one T Colleton Garth (a relative of the younger
Harriet Boone), who lent it to an exhibition of Old Master pictures at the British Institution in
1865. It was engraved in 1866 by G.H. Emery – presumably after attracting some attention at
that exhibition. The painting was then bought from Garth by the dealers Agnew in 1903 and
sold the following year in 1904 to the famous Anglo-German diamond magnate Alfred Beit.
Two years later in 1906, Beit - who would fill his later years with numerous philanthropic
donations in Germany, England and South Africa - gave the Reynolds original of Mrs Boone
to the Berlin Gallery...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Young Girl in Summer, Andre Gisson
By André Gisson
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Andre Gisson (1921-2003)
Title: Young Girl in Summer
Year: circa 1973
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, recto
ANDRE GISSON ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Portrait Of David Lyon Junior (1794-1842), early 19th Century English School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of David Lyon Junior (1794-1842), early 19th Century
English School
Large early 19th Century portrait of a David Lyon Junior, oil on canvas. Good quality and condition Re...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Serenade in the Harem - French 19th Century Orientalist art nude oil painting
By Joseph Caraud
Located in London, GB
This beautiful French 19th century Orientalist oil painting is by noted French artist Joseph Caraud. It was painted circa 1848 when Caraud was painting Algerian scenes. The compositi...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
'Richard Milhouse Nixon', Carmel Art Association, Oakland Art Museum, Monterey
By Dick Crispo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'D. Crispo' for Dick Crispo (American, born 1945) and dated 1972.
Dick Crispo has presented 76 one-man shows and won 36 awards for his artistry, including a gold...
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
HIS BIRTHDAY (LARGE PAINTING)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas mounted on linen. Hand signed and dated upper front by Peter Max. Canvas is not stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Some signs of expe...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
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
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
Victorian School 19th Century Oil - Woman Through an Ivy Wreath
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil portrait depicting the head and shoulders of a woman wearing a pink shawl and lace bonnet. The artist frames the woman's face in a wreath of ivy and honeysuckle. Unsig...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Portrait of a man with a chechia
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature
Work on canvas
Category
19th Century 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
The Flax Spinner - Belgian Victorian art female portrait oil painting craftwork
Located in London, GB
This beautiful Victorian portrait oil painting is by Belgian artist Alfred Ronner. Painted circa 1890 the painting is of a young woman sat at a spinning wheel. She is spinning flax, ...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady with bun and lace scarf
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature
Work on canvas
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
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...
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1890s Impressionist 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...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School 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
Portrait of a Lady and Dog - British Victorian animal art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British Victorian portrait oil painting is by much noted and exhibited female artist Maud Porter. Painted circa 1890 it is a seated portrait of a young woman and her terr...
Category
1890s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Antique silhouette of children, reverse painted on glass
Located in Harkstead, GB
A charming silhouette of a group of children ambling along. So much character is expressed through the minimal monochrome depiction.
English or American School, 19th Century
A silhouette...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Glass
Woman with red shawl and muslin headdress
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Fishermen
Located in London, GB
'The Fishermen', oil on canvas, by Anna Costa (circa 1970s). Cassis is a small, Provencal fishing village in southern France, located about 45 minutes east of Marseille and 45 minute...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Spanish Lady
By Charles Baxter
Located in St. Albans, GB
A perfect example of Charles Baxter's work. A beautiful Spanish lady wearing typical Spanish attire. Despite being unsigned, the painting has full provenance having being fully catal...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady with Harvest - British Victorian art Exh 1842 oil painting
Located in London, GB
Henry Room, noted Birmingham artist, painted this lovely Victorian portrait oil painting. It was painted in 1842 and exhibited at the Society of British Artists the same year, entitled Forsaken Innocence. It is a charming half length portrait of a young lady in a hat, dark ringlets gleaming and ruby red lips slightly smiling. She is holding a sheaf of wheat with trees beyond. The detail and brushwork are lovely. A super pastoral oil painting and an accomplished example of Henry Room's work with excellent provenance. .
Signed lower left. Indistinctly inscribed to label verso.
Provenance. Exhibited at the Society of British Artists 1842 no. 63 entitled Forsaken Innocence.
Mentioned in “German Compliments to British Art,” The Art-Union (Dec. 1842), 279-281. Comments by Dr. Henry Merz on the exhibition of the Society of British Artists (Suffolk Street, Pall-Mall East); p.280: “In this exhibition we find also the peculiar sentimentalism of the English school, in No. 129, ‘Sterne’s Poor Maria,’ by F. Stacpoole; No. 63, ‘Forsaken Innocence’ (a coquettish young lady with a sheaf of gleanings in her apron), by H. Room”
Berwick House, Shropshire.
James Watson was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham in 1818, He bought Berwick House In August 1875. With the renovations on the mansion house nearing completion, by 1879 Watson turned his sights to forming a collection of suitably impressive paintings and furnishings for the recreated rooms.
Condition. Oil and panel, 30 inches by 25 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in an ornate gilt frame, 38 inches by 33 inches and in good condition.
Henry Room (1802–1850) was an English portrait-painter, from an evangelical background in Birmingham. Henry Room was born in Newhall Street, the son of John Room, a japanner, and studied at Joseph Barber's drawing school on Great Charles Street. An original member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, he was also one of the group of artists that broke away from the Society in 1828 to exhibit at a rival institution in Temple Row. Room was in London in the late 1820s, sharing a studio with Peter Hollins in Old Bond Street. He was a deacon in the church of John Morison. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1826 onwards and completed many portraits of missionaries, academics and reformers which were engraved by John Cochran. Room maintained close links with Birmingham and was appointed as auditor for the newly formed Birmingham Society of Artists in 1842. He had a reputation as a painter of portraits, and received commissions, some of his portraits being engraved. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826. He practised for some time at Birmingham. He painted a portrait of Thomas Clarkson...
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19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine English Georgian Period Oil Painting Portrait of a Country Squire Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Country Gentleman
English School, circa 1800
oil on canvas, unframed *see below
painting: 30 x 25 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound c...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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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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