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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Impressionist
Style: Expressionist
French School - Portrait PS 93 Debbie Blondie - (XL Large) Post Impressionist
Located in Zofingen, AG
PS 93 Debbie Blondie
Portrait of the singer Debbie Harry
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on canvas F30 92x73cm ■■ 36,2x28,7 inch
》》R E A D Y -- T O -- H A N G《《
❶ → Original si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Ink, Acrylic
Contemporary British Modernist Oil Portrait Of A Blonde Lady In Pearl Earrings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape
signed by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century)
dated 93'
oil painting on board , unframed
board: 15 x 12 inches
condition: overall very good
provenance: all the pain...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
John "Scrappy" Ramirez, portrait, pro-boxer, oil painting, Execute Your Plan
Located in Houston, TX
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Scrappy is an oil on canvas painting by Joan Breckwoldt from Houston, Texas. It is framed in a custom floater frame. Scrappy bring...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Danseuses a la barre - Impressionist Figurative Pastel - Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative pastel on canvas circa 1910 by French genre painter Pierre Carrier-Belleuse. The work depicts three ballerinas wearing white tutus, warming up in a studio. Carrier-Belleuse was a contemporary of Edgar Degas and they exhibited simultaneously at the major Salons in Paris. This classic example evokes the Belle Epoque period in french history and is superbly executed.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 29"x24"
Unframed: 26"x21"
Provenance:
Private French collection
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel and the interior decorative artist Pierre Victor Galland. He started out as an oil painter and produced genre compositions, such as his Final Rendezvous. From 1885, however, he opted to work exclusively in pastel, producing a large number of sketches and portraits but always remaining faithful to his earlier genre compositions. Examples include Pierrot, Harlequin, Woman with Cat. The periodical Figaro Illustré published a large number of his sketches of dancers, a recurrent theme throughout his work.
From 1875, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse exhibited frequently at the Paris Salon, receiving an honourable mention in 1887 and being awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889.
Museum and Gallery Holdings:
Dunkirk: Dancer Adjusting her Shoe (pastel)
Gray: On the Dunes; In the Sun
La Rochelle: Dancer
Le Puy-en-Velay: Fantasy
Mulhouse: Mule's Bonnet
Paris (Municipal Collection): Tender Vow (pastel)
Versailles...
Category
1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel
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
Elevated
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Elevated" by Obiora Anamaleze is a striking and enigmatic artwork that invites viewers into a world of profound symbolism and contemplation. The cent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French School - Portrait Black Elvis - Large - Oil Painting Post Impressionist
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait Elvis Presley
Technique: Acrylics, oil painting, China ink on canvas 73x60cm / 28,7x23,6inch
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❶ → Original signed work. Certificate of aut...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Large Expressionist Portrait, Follower of Max Beckmann, Glasgow School
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large Glasgow School Max Beckmann influenced oil on canvas portrait by Scottish artist Stuart Mackenzie. The painting is signed and dated to the rea...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Oil on Canvas after Cézanne, Le Jardinier, The Gardener
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist Oil on Canvas after a painting by Paul Cézanne titled 'Le Jardinier Vallier' (R950, FWN547). The painting is titled and signed 'élève de beaux arts d' Aix' to th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Lady Sunbathing on Beach British Modernist 20th Century Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
On the Beach
by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century)
oil painting on thin board, unframed
board: 18 x 22.5 inches
condition: overall very good
pr...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Artist's Family Portrait - British American Impressionist art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning British American Impressionist portrait oil on canvas painting is by Sir James Jebusa Shannon circa 1905. The painting is of the artist and his wife Florence and daught...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Encaustic Painting Portrait Boston Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Bears old label verso from Raydon Gallery in New York city.
Aronson, David 1923-
David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Blending into the landscape
Located in THOMERY, FR
This painting is from the series La Dolce vita. It is done with watercolor on a watercolor paper.
Linda Clerget focuses on the exploration of colors and textures, inspired by the na...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Judaica Oil Painting Samuel Grodensky Hasidic Rabbi, Children in Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Grodensky (1894-1974)
"Hassidim"
Hand signed and dated "Grodensky '62" u.l.,
Titled verso in pencil on stretcher
31" x 27" canvas , 35 1/2" x 31 1/2" framed.
Large Fauvist Expressionist Jewish Family Oil Painting
This is done in an Expressionist style in Fauvist colors. Influenced by the Judaic artists of the early Israeli...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Independent
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
At first glance, "Independent" captures the viewer's attention with its striking imagery of a woman wearing a vibrant yellow coat. The choice of yellow as the dominant color is symbo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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
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
Daughter Reading to Mother - British 1900 Impressionist portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This most charming oil painting is attributed to the circle of noted British Impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer. Painted circa 1900 this lovely Edwardian Impressionist paintin...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young girl portrait oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Carmen Ventosa (1919-1964) - Young Woman - Oil on panel
Oil measurements 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pierrot et Monocole - Impressionist Oil, Portrait by Armand Francois Henrion
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Wonderful signed impressionist oil on panel circa 1910 by French painter Armand Francois Henrion. The work depicts a portrait of a mischievous Pierrot - a French clown - wearing white ruffles, a yellow hat and a monocle. The yellow of the hat is contrasted against the grey background.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Unframed: 11"x8.5"
This painting is nit currently framed but a suitable frame can be sourced if required
Provenance:
Private French collection
Armand François Joseph Henrion...
Category
1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Strength of a Woman
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Strength of a Woman" by Muideen Abdulkadir is a compelling artwork that celebrates the creative spirit, passion, and inner strength of women. At its core, this piece is a visual ode...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Love, Passion and Nature
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Muideen Abdulkadir, a renowned artist from Nigeria celebrated for his ability to convey profound emotions through his artwork, has once again demonstrated his artistic genius with "L...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1930's Portrait of a French Gentleman of Character Wearing Black Hat & Moustache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, circa 1920's-1930's period
Portrait of a Characterful Gentleman wearing a wide rimmed black hat and sporting a moustache
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 19.5 x 11.5 in...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Lady - British Impressionist 1900 art female artist oil painting
By Florence Kate Upton
Located in London, GB
This superb British Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Florence Kate Upton. Born in America to English parents, Upton visited Britain with her family aged 20 and remained here to further her art career. Although a children's book illustrator, Upton was first a painter and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy. This lovely portrait, painted circa 1900, is a half length profile view of a lady in a black dress with gold front panel. A vibrant peacock blue shawl is across her arm and the background is a rich plum coloured drape. She has a black and silver choker...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
David's Journey
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"David's Journey" by Joshua Salami is a captivating artwork that beautifully encapsulates the spirit of a young man embarking on a profound voyage of self-discovery, passion, and vis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Ray of Hope
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In "Ray of Hope," a captivating portrait, the audience is drawn into the arresting gaze of a black African woman, her shoulders raised with unwavering stre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Conspirators discuss a course of action
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Uncanny brilliance is deployed as we run through art history’s highlight reel via the work of Ta Byrne. With the recurrent motif of an egg and Edward Burra-like layered body composi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
OLIVIA
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The work “OLIVIA,” is part of the author's broader exploration of the theme of human identity in the modern world. Special attention is paid to the portrayal of th...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boss going on holiday
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ready to hang and free worldwide shipping.
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud
I want my art to be unpred...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man in Hat Seated on Ground Stylish 1920's French Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Man
by Maurice Georges Poncelet (French, 1897-1978)
oil painting on board, signed initials - datedf 1929
11 x 14 inches
condition: overall good and sound though a little ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
MY DEAR PRINCESS
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
In “MY DEAR PRINCESS,” I delve into the realm of naive archetypal imagery, creating a sanctuary from the aggressive modern world. This piece offers an opportunity ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boss hoping for the best
Located in Zofingen, AG
Welcome to my world of Monkeys smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red.
Ta is a best-selling artist. She is an exciting Thai painter who has ga...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original painting on canvas, "Fiery George Washington" by Serg Graff, COA
Located in Framingham, MA
This is a rare unique original acrylic/mixed media painting on canvas in a naïve primitivism style depicting George Washington (1732-1799) - the Founding Father of the United States....
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Summer, Figurative Nude Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Mishurovski V.V.
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Style: Classic Figurative
Year: 2010
Title: Summer
Size: 35.5" x 18" x 0....
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French School - Portrait PS 230 Starwoman AC/DC Queen Oil Post Impressionist
Located in Zofingen, AG
PS 230 Starwoman Queen
Portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II with AC/DC earrings
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden frame 40x40cm ■■ 15,7x15,7 inch
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
ORIGINAL 1860 Famous American Artist Henry Peters Gray (1819-1877) oil on canvas
By Henry Peters Gray
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is an amazing original antique oil painting on canvas by Famous American Artist Henry Peters Gray (1819-1877), depicting a portrait of a W.P. Wright Esq.
Some of his pai...
Category
1860s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Sisters - British Edwardian art Newlyn School portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British Edwardian portrait oil painting is attributed to noted Newlyn School artist Albert Chevallier Tayler. Painted circa 1905 the painting is of the head and shoulders...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Courageous Spirit
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Tunde Bakare, a visionary artist with an uncanny ability to infuse profound emotions into his works, has risen to prominence for his powerful portrayal of marginalized voices and the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Lady - British 50's art oil painting woman in green female artist
Located in London, GB
A super circa 1955 British portrait oil painting in tones of grey and green. A very evocative period portrait of a woman painted by British listed female artist Constance Anne Parke...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Kite
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I want to tell you what it means when a man feels at home. It is not when he sits in his house alone; it is when he can step out of his home without thinking it is risky to do so.
(...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Busker playing the Sax
Located in Zofingen, AG
I have always been fascinated by artists who pushed the boundaries, experimented and changed the art world; my art explores many styles, from Modernism to Impressionism, Expressionis...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady in yellow
Located in Zofingen, AG
I paint people; I want my paintings to have character to tell a story but without words, as if using mime. To be dramatic, emotional, sometimes theatrical but always with feelings an...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man in black
Located in Zofingen, AG
My painting make a statement, I want them to be timeless, exquisite, of indeterminate origin, the tone beautifully considered with an atmosphere of wonder and intrigue, giving an emo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peek a Bunny
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
22" x 22" Framed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Todd Whit
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s eyes as t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yogilates
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ready to hang and free worldwide shipping.
My lady in blue is full of energy and vigour and a gymnast of the highest degree, flexible after years of yoga and beautiful, and I’m delig...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Egg boy with his friend the Iguana
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 Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady in blue
Located in Zofingen, AG
Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why is it that people from around the world acquire Ta's work and speak and write such beautiful things about her art. There has to be ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Duke
Located in Zofingen, AG
My painting make a statement, I want them to be timeless, exquisite, of indeterminate origin, the tone beautifully considered with an atmosphere of wonder and intrigue, giving an emo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude
Located in Zofingen, AG
I once said it would be easier for me to walk on the moon than become an artist.I left school at 12 to work in the rice fields; at 13, I worked in a sweatshop in Bangkok making shirt...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Reader
Located in Zofingen, AG
I once said it would be easier for me to walk on the moon than become an artist.I left school at 12 to work in the rice fields; at 13, I worked in a sweatshop in Bangkok making shirt...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boss getting ready for holiday
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ready to hang and free worldwide shipping.
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud
I want my art to be unpred...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The changing room
Located in Zofingen, AG
"For me, nudes are interesting to paint; I've had people say my Ladies are grotesque, fat and ugly. I think they are profoundly beautiful" says a passionate Ta. She wants each of her nude ladies...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Apple
Located in Zofingen, AG
Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worldwide acquire Ta's work and speak and write such beautiful things about her art. There must be something in the painting ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Egg Girl Flying
Located in Zofingen, AG
At first viewing, Egg Girl may come across as humorous, quirky, flippant or even clever. However, there may also be a deeper meaning in the work. The Egg Girl wants to be seen, but she does not want to reveal herself entirely. So, on a human level, Egg Girl is symbolic of the masks we wear, the devices we use to hide ourselves even as we reveal ourselves; to the world and to the judgement of others.
How my Eggs came about.
I wanted something to change my world, a painting that would make that happen. I wanted something I’d never seen before in the art world. I used to sit for hours late at night thinking about what to paint to make that change. It was Egg lady...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stretching
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ready to hang and free worldwide shipping.
My lady in blue is full of energy and vigour and a gymnast of the highest degree, flexible after years of yoga and beautiful, and I’m delig...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coco the Clown in Top Hat and Bow Tie. Milan School, Italian Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Expressionist oil on canvas portrait of a clown by Italian artist Luciano Morterra. Signed bottom right and dated 1976 to the bottom left and presented in a period frame under glass....
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady in Purple - British 50's Impressionist oil painting portrait female artist
Located in London, GB
A vibrant portrait oil painting by female artist Pauline Glass who was educated on the continent at the Academy Julien and who exhibited throughout her career. This stunning oil is a...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern British Portrait of Lady in Red Coat Tartan Trousers 20th century Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century)
signed initials oil painting on board, unframed
board: 27 x 18 inches
condition: overal...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings
An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
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