Miniature Portrait Paintings

Jan Meerhoud Gorinchem 1633 – 1677 Amsterdam Dutch School Golden Age 'Traveller in a Dutch Village' Signature: signed lower left Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: image size 21 x 2...

Amanda Norman’s expressive contemporary dog painting, "Not Guilty", captures the unmistakable look of a Pug caught in the act—but claiming innocence. With bold brushwork and a cl...

"Christ Pantocrator". After an Icon in the style of the Moscow school (15th century). Somewhat similar to that of Rublev. Author: Oliver Samsinguer Egg tempera and gold leaf on gesso and on wood. Dimensions; (H) 42 x (W) 33.5 x (D) 3.5 cm. (H) 16.54 x (W) 13.19 x (D) 1.38 in. This is how the artist sums up the technique used by him to create the icon: “The aim of these steps is to create a durable painting. The icon is eternal. The first step is to choose a support, traditionally made of wood, from the center of the trunk to avoid warping it. For this purpose, two hardwood bolts were often used on the back to give the picture panel additional stability. Often a frame is milled out. Then the image carrier is sanded smooth and now 12 or 14 thin layers of gesso are applied and sanded smooth as well. Then the preliminary drawing is applied and the drawing board is prepared with a special preparation called bolus. This bolus can be polished to a high gloss. Afterwards, the gold leaf is "shot" with special brushes. It dries up within a few hours and can now be polished with an agate. Gold leaf is real 24-carat gold . Now, the actual process of painting begins. Egg tempera is made fresh from egg yolk, water, and a little vinegar. This is used to prepare the color pigments. Tempera painting is done in numerous layers from dark to light. When the icon is finished, it is left to dry for a few months and varnished with a special varnish called Olifa made from boiled linseed oil and other ingredients”. ABOUT THE ARTIST Oliver Samsinger...

Jeremy Novy’s unique brand of street art is ripe with thoughtful social examinations. Novy has combated a homophobic lack of representation with a celebration of gay iconography, br...

Jeremy Novy’s unique brand of street art is ripe with thoughtful social examinations. Novy has combated a homophobic lack of representation with a celebra...

Albert Marquet was a French painter. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, ...

Oil on canvas

Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey The present painting depicts Saint Vincent Ferrer preaching from a raised pulpit to a group of seven peopl...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

Interior with Young Girl

Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958) Original portrait done on paper and mounted on cardboard. Signed on back of the cardboard by artist. Lever was born in Australia studied art in bo...

This charming German miniature painting, created of oil on copper, depicts a young woman wearing a large and lavish hat. With dark, braided hair and blue eyes, the sitter's cheerful ...

American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1970. Signed. Image size, 5.5"L x 8.5"H.

Suchitra Bhosle's "A Moment in Time" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman, in all white, crouching with her knees pulled to her c...

Fred Calleri was born in Maryland and has slowly moved westward towards his current home in Santa Barbara, California. On his way, he earned an Illustration and Graphic Design degree...

John Baker’s “Studio Sketch of Valerie” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 18 x 14 inches in pinks, greys and browns. When Valerie visited my studio she at first stayed ve...

This piece titled "Side Quest Mask" is an original painted dimensional work by Sarah Detweiler and is part of Detweiler's "Spectrum of Curiosities" series, featuring whimsical portra...

Provenance: Private Collection, New York, until 2022. Martín de Porres was born in Lima in 1579, the illegitimate son of a Spanish-American father, J...

Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) signed Title: portrait of a man with a moustache Medium: oil on board, unframed Size : 10 x 7 inches Provenance: private coll...

Affen Segun was born in 1993 in Lagos, Nigeria. A native of Bayelsa State, he discovered his love for art at a young age, and later got enrolled in a roadside art shop to start to ho...

Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Resist" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman, with straight across bangs, in profile where the bright light from a window casts her s...

Eugène Louis Boudin Honfleur 1824 – 1898 Deauville French Painter 'Etude de jeunes Bretonnes' Signature: signed lower right, revers named and defined 'Studies of young Breton women...

Oil painting on a wooden panel realized by Marco Fariello in 2024, and depicting a girl lying on a Bed.

This painting by artist Ray Simonini titled "Miranda" is a 16x16 farm animal oil painting on canvas featuring a portrait of a pink pig against...

Soldier. 1950. Cardboard, author technique, 39,5x20 cm Artwork depicts a soldier in motion. Author has used a mixed media technique on cardboard. Both the soldier himself and the fe...

European Painter (19th century) - Portrait of a Gentleman. 13.5 x 10 cm without frame, 18.5 x 15.5 cm with frame. Watercolor on paper, in original 19th century frame (not signed). ...

An oil painting of an antique key, hanging by a teal colored ribbon, from a single nail. Painted in the realist style known as Trompe-Loeil, which is French for "Trickery of the Eye"...

"See No Evil" is an oil painting. It depicts a woman, the artist, Maryann Lucas covering her eyes with her hands. The two tone composition represents the artist's astrological sign, ...

"Currency #265" by Natasha Lelenco presents the profile of an anonymous male figure in deep blue tones, painted over a luminous metallic silver colour background. The portrait is fra...

Bring warmth and charm into your home with this delightful original oil painting by Austrian artist Hans Kerber (b. 1920–?), portraying an elderly gentleman joyfully holding a guitar...

Subrata Gangopadhyay - Untitled Pastel on Paper 15 x 11 inches, 2000 ( Unframed & Delivered ) This evocative pastel artwork by Gangopadhayay captures a graceful, intimate moment of ...

Cain & Abel, 19th Century School of Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863) 19th century French scene of Cain & Abel, oil panel. Excellent quality and condition biblical scene of the death of...

Dan Pelonis's oil painting "Vaders on Pink" combines pop culture imagery with repetition and imperfection to explore the degradation and abstraction of visual icons. Against a flat, ...

Immerse into the blue, with this outstanding piece from Delphine Rocher., from the Series "Blue Ocean". She uses a blue ballpoint pen over acrylic, on a wood panel. Already framed ....

"The Champ" is an egg tempera painting of Teofimo Lopez who is also known as The Takeover after winning four belts in his last fight. He is ranked # 1 in his weight class. The painting by E. Melinda Morrison...

Oil Painting by Erwin Eichinger "The Old Tyrolean Gentleman" 1892 - 1950 Member of the popular Austrian family of figurative artists who painted Tyrolean...

Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, oil on board, signed Girardet, French School (circa 1950s). A compelling vintage oil portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the most influ...

Immerse into the blue, with this outstanding piece from Delphine Rocher., from the Series "Blue Ocean". She uses a blue ballpoint pen over acrylic, on a wood panel. Already framed ....

Lorraine Fox was a pioneering female Illustrator/artist who championed a unique style immediately identified as hers. This work, in two parts, was most likely for a newsstand woman's...

Oil on canvas Image size: 15 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (39.5 x 28.75 cm) Original gilt frame This is a touching head and shoulders portrait of a young peasant girl. Wearing a headscarf, a...

The Village Cricket Match, 18th/19th Century English School - Indistinctly Signed 18th 19th Century English School Rural Village Cricket match, oil on ...

Nude Portrait of a Reclining Lady By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century Oil painting on board, unframed Board size: 16x12 inches Exquisite nude oil painting of a young lady, ...

* No US duty or taxes to pay on this item * A beautiful mid 20th century French modernist oil on board portraity of a smartly dressed young lady. Typicallly French look to the lady...

This realistic oil painting is a portrait of a young Kenyan girl by Daniel Hughes. Internationally recognized as a fine artist, Daniel Hughes has painted a haunting image with this ...

Benedetto Luti (Florence, Italy, 1666 - Rome, Italy, 1724) Title: Head of a Girl Medium: Oil pastel on canvas Dimensions: without frame 28 x 23.5 cm - with frame 38.5 x 33.5 cm Orig...

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792 - 1845) The Cuirassier 27 x 21.5 cm 42 x 36,5 x 5 cm with frame Without signature

I created Aging Sucks at the beginning of my painting career. Modeled after a relative of mine, the man acts almost as an inverse to the car, which is old and run down. The young man...

Corn Offering by Lu Haskew Oil 10x12" image size Figurative Native American Dance Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. ...

Amber in electric blue with yellow by David Shevlino whose female figures beautifully link traditional representation with abstraction. Through Shevlino’s sensuous application of pai...

Portrait of a French man in beret/ cap French artist, circa 1930's oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 13 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and soun...

Suchitra Bhosle's "Mood in Orange" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dark haired woman, in vivid orange clothing, tilting her head a...

Lisa Fricker's "Deep Dive" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a woman underwater. Through her portrait and figure paint...

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

Immerse into the blue, with this outstanding piece from Delphine Rocher., from the Series "Blue Ocean". She uses a blue ballpoint pen over acrylic, on a wood panel. Already framed ....

A pencil, chalk and crayon drawing of the Virgin and Child with St Anne inspired by the 'cartoon' of Leonard da Vinci currently held in the National Gallery London. An elegant and c...

This contemporary abstract expressionist woman's portrait was created by the French artist Natalya Mougenot. With flowing long hair and no facial details, the figure is rendered in a...

Mid century portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "Blake" in the lower left corner. Unframed. Marjorie May Gulley Blake w...

Ohio-born painter William J. Forsyth (1854-1935) spent most of his life in Indianapolis and initially trained at the Indiana School of Art. But by 1882 Forsyth wanted to hone his drawing and rendering skills abroad. He enrolled at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany. Fellow Hoosier students in Munich included artists T. C. Steele and J. Ottis Adams, which helped the new arrival’s transition. Forsyth painted figures like this one while in Munich. One intriguing indication that this piece may have been done during the artist’s Academy period is that a very similar portrait of a remarkably similar sitter was described at auction as "German School, 1891" with the inscription "G. Büttner/Munich '91." However, while there Forsyth shifted his interest to landscapes under the influence of American artist J. Frank Currier...

JAMES CARROLL BECKWITH (1852-1917) Nita Oil on panel 10 1/16 x 7 5/8 inches Signed lower right Inscribed, “Background of/Nita Sewell/1897,” verso James Carroll Beckwith enjoyed enor...