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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 1960s
Un Jardín en mi Hogar
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Raising Cane (self portrait)
Located in Toronto, CA
During the final decade of his life, Gordon Rayner repeatedly returned to portraiture, creating stirring portraits of himself and others, including celebrated artists and his wife, K...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
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1960s Romantic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite

Insomnia
Located in Porto, 13
"Insomnia" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a thought-provoking painting that draws viewers into the depths of the human psyche. Against a white background, the central focus of the artwork ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Chronos and the blade of destiny Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting myth
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and oil pastel on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil

Untitled Face III (To be named by owner)
Located in Seoul, KR
About Faces Series Hayoung Kim's paintings incorporate her own experiences in real life. Now she has given birth and encountered a whole new phase of life. While experiencing motherh...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil

Haitian Couple in Bed Simultaneously Adjusting their Radios, Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Wilson Bigaud is an idea artist in who showcases visual ideas in many of his paintings. In this work, a married Haitian couple tunes their radios in sync as they lie in bed. Bigaud was greatly interested in radios, which appeared in many of his works. This work rises to the level of Surrealism in that Bigaud is doing more than just depicting a normal bedroom moment. There is something very strange and bizarre in the couple's synchronized actions. Also of note, it looks like the woman is swallowing the edge of the radio. Signed lower right in a handmade and hand-painted frame. Wear to the edges of board, including delamination in the corners, some dents and losses. Frame rubbing with associated wear. Areas of white discoloration to the bed and headboard...
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1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

ANGELES EN LA TIERRA
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
This painting is unique, like all the works of art by the fascinating artist Carmen Gutiérrez; made of acrylics, oils, gold and silver inks and as a practical and sublime method of b...
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2010s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Silver, Gold Leaf

Yu Tan with Straw Hat
Located in Breckenridge, CO
This is a one of a kind opportunity to own a painting by a master painter featuring a beautiful depiction of a woman with a straw hat. This is a stunning piece that would add immense...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Splinters of a Secret Sky - Splinters
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on verso): AF/2021
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Acrylic

The mole hour Nicolas Kennett Contemporary painting insect animal art nature
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Unique work Hand-signed on the back by the artist
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Brazilian Girls
Located in Miami, FL
Camila Rosa is a Brazilian Artist and Illustrator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She started her life as an artist in 2010 with a female street art collective and since then she has wor...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Butterfly - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Baiser passionné (Passionate kiss)
Located in PARIS, FR
Circular oil and acrylic painting by artist Wenyu Zhu. This work shows a passionate kiss of two people interwoven together by many red threads. The symbol of red thread can be traced...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

Novus Amor, Novis Vita IX, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita IX, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working proce...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"CARRIE LANE CHAPMAN CATT" Painting, India Ink on Paper, Portrait, Feminist
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions 11 x 11 in, framed 16 x 16 in Unique Signed on recto by artist, includes a certificate of authenticity Indira Cesarine is a multidisci...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, India Ink

Introspective Woman / Actress on Movie Set. Mid Century Art, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for were Woman's Day, ...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Pencil

Like Water Flows Around Rocks -21st Cent, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

Dude
By Paul Fuentes
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Man on beach. About the artist: “There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern f...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
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1960s Feminist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Novus Amor, Novis Vita XI, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita XI, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working proce...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Rebirth
Located in Miami, FL
“Rebirth” 2023 30x40 in Acrylic on canvas $3000 ------ Camila Rosa is a Brazilian Artist and Illustrator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She started her life as an artist in 2010 with a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Zumbi dos Palmares
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.” Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...
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2010s Byzantine Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

No. 83 - Make A Wish
Located in Wien, 9
No. 83 - Make a Wish (2021), Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 100 x 100 cm Elena Steiner was born in Susice (Czech Republic) in 1975 and lives and works in Vienna. She completed her painting studies at the Institute for Fine and Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in Johanna Kandl’s class. In her series of works, Elena Steiner examines a different type of person, sensitizes the viewer, confronts him with the uncompromising demasking of his own world and that of the portrayed by violating the illusion-bearing canvas surface. She creates realistic acrylic paintings as metaphors for being and appearance. The injuries in the form of seams, stitches and stitches are the epitome of traditional female role fulfillment. Elena Steiner deals with the questions of the value of fulfilling external wishes, social recognition and self-determination. Her works experiment with the border areas between painting, object, real exhibition space and imaginative spatiality and thus offer a captivating game be-tween closeness and distance, between impenetrable closeness and revealing familiarity. Her artistic work shows a zoomed in, sharply focused, snappy, humorous portrait...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Meditation #2
Located in Singapore, SG
Humans need a balance between the physical world and the inner consciousness. One way to get there is through meditation. Meditation has a positive and constructive impact on the psy...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - WE IV
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France Six Worldwide well-known art sales website agent KOONESS/1STDIBS/ARTPRICE/...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

"Jasmine and Clove" oil painting woman female portrait black dress
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess Jasmine and Clove, 2017 oil on Dibond 10” x 8” unframed 13.5" x 11.75" framed Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil painti...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Beyond Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting character skyscape black
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Audrey
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn. Portrait. Abstract Feel. Oil on Linen. Sides painted black. About the Artist: Karl has been a fine artist his entire life and is well known for his portraits,...
Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tinder Profile series: Pattern
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This cubistic portrait is one of a series of portraits I started while in Berlin earlier this year. I do not typically paint portraits, although many recurring motifs of my work are ...
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2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

International feminism Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century Iranian outsider art paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed by the artist
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"Seated Nude"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed LR & Dated 2004 Born in Inner Mongolia Xue's approach to the genre of portraiture is unique: situating Asian subjects in a highly stylised manner that is reminiscent, both te...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mister Universe - Julien Wolf, 21st Century, Contemporary Expressionist Painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas 2019 Signed Unique work Julien Wolf is a French painter born in 1981 in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he graduated from the DNSEP Art section at the Strasbourg Decora...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Lion Mangled Me - A Man Eating Lion
Located in Miami, FL
Using brilliant compositional devices and late afternoon light, Frank McCarthy captures a man at the precise moment before death. The scene is staged wi...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Casein, Board

Ernest Hemingway
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Wood Panel. Portrait or Ernest Hemingway.Piece sits about an inch off the wall in its entirety and is 27x24. About the Artist: "Tomlin is young, upcoming artist based...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

In the beginning was the bird Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painter
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on canvas Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

Bowie
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the late great David Bowie. Figurative painting. About the Artist: Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's, mixing Pop Art and Street Art, he started painting on the walls of his Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris (famous in the 50's for being the gathering point of writers and painters i.e Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Modigliani....). A few years later, Le Closier made official portraits for tennis players Serena Williams, Kei Nishikori, Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten, Bryan Brothers, David Goffin, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jeremy Chardy, American golf player Cristie Kerr and Paris-Saint-Germain's president Nasser Al-Khelaifi (among others). ​ In May 2016, he was asked by France Pavilion to paint a portrait of Chief Justice Stephen Breyer for the French/American business week at the French Embassy in Washington, DC. Today, Le Closier creates colorful compositions inspired by celebrities, arts, comics, advertising, fashion..., mixing people, brands and symbols on different supports (canvas, wood cutouts...
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2010s Conceptual Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

The inseparable I -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

The bird behind the curtain -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated by the artist
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

And Forsake All Others
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lady Gaga, The Pink Panther and the Little Man
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Terrace Theater - Julien Wolf, 21st Century, Contemporary Expressionist Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Oilbar and charcoal on paper 2020 Signed Unique work Julien Wolf is a French painter born in 1981 in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he graduated from the DNSEP Art section at the St...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Oil Pastel

Rayuela
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Peña Rayuela Photo-painting on parchment paper 46h x 40w in 116.84h x 101.60w cm
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Queen moth -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

Magic - Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed lower right
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Prayer - Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed lower right
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled 513 - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer generated animated graphics. It is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mohandas Gandhi[Black&White, Steel on canvas, Stereoscopic, Portrait, New media]
Located in Seoul, KR
will be updated soon
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2010s New Media Portrait Paintings

Materials

Steel

Ballet dancer
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Beautiful drawing by Jean-Baptiste Valadie, hand-signed, museum frame
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2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Engraving, Drypoint, Lithograph

The book of poems Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Contemporary Iranian paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed lower right
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

El Iris Love Letter: Jayne Mansfield
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign. KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Enamel

El Iris Love Letter: Jennifer Jones
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign. KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Charlotte
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Anthony Palliser was born in 1949 of an English father and a Belgian mother. He studied at Downside school and graduated from New College Oxford. In 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Ladies by Annemarie Ambrosoli, Oil on Canvas, 50x70 cm
Located in Kiens, BZ
Ladies (2017), oil on canvas stretched over wooden frame, 50x70 cm, by Italian contemporary artist ©Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist) Hand-signed by the Art...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Pixled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Pixled - many small parts put together to make something beautiful. Sorting out the pieces one at a time. I learned a lot of patience with each individually painted square
Category

2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

3-9-22 (Duptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Comme Avant, As Before" Abstract Colorful Portrait Street Art Pop Art on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This particular piece depicts an anonymous portrait of a beautiful woman. Inspired by the every day, JM Robert strives to create paintings that mimic the fla...
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2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

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.

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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