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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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Contemporary Cubist Portrait, "Helena"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original cubist painting by San Diego artist, Alexander Arshansky. Its dimensions are 16x20x1.5. It is unframed. A Certificate of Authenticity will follow the...
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2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Portrait after Franz Josef Winter, Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop Cologne
Located in Greven, DE
Clemens August Ferdinand Maria Hyazinth, Duke of Bavaria (* August 16, 1700 in Brussels; † February 6, 1761 in Koblenz) was as Clemens August I from 1723 to 1761 Archbishop of Cologne and thus at the same time Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, sovereign of the associated archdiocese as well as the tributary lands of Recklinghausen and Westphalia. In addition, he was Legatus natus of the Holy Apostolic See in Rome and Archchancellor of Imperial Italy. Furthermore, he combined the offices of Grand Master of the Teutonic Order...
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18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings

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Canvas

"The Violet Hour" figurative painting male with cats spotlight
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess The Violet Hour, 2017 oil on Dibond 18.5" x 14.5" unframed 22" x 17" framed Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil painting...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

In a Dream
Located in Denver, CO
Sarah Warda's "In a Dream " is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white clad female model reclining on a bed of grass with her hands folded o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Portrait of a Young Man - 17th Century Portrait in Oil
By Pieter Harmensz Verelst
Located in London, GB
Circle of Pieter Harmensz Verelst 1618 - 1678 Portrait of a Young Man Oil on oak panel Image size: 7 ½ x 5 ¾ inches Dutch ripple frame
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18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

A Rich Merchant - Painting by Unknown - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A rich merchant is an original old master artwork realized in the 18th Century. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas depicting a merchant looking at a coin in his left hand. Provena...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

She closed her eyes #7 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back Zahra ZEINALI was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran. From 2001 to 2004, she studied Fine arts at the Art and Architecture University in Tehran. At the same time, she taught visual arts to children during 15 years. Passionate about photography, she trained in photography in 2007 at the House of Photography in Tehran. In 2012, she moved to France. Confronted with her new life, her vision of the world changed. Since 2020, she has resumed training in photography at the EFET School in Paris. Zahra ZEINALI The Doll’s House “What can a true artistic temperament aspire to after a youth spent in Iran today? To flee the hassles, prejudices, restrictions, to open wide a window of freedom rich in potentialities that were believed for a long time inaccessible. Zahra Zeinali became a visual arts teacher for fifteen years. Her pupils are 6 to 12 years old. Drawing, sculpture, painting, model design, she taught them a great diversity of techniques, but above all to think and design freely by themselves, in an atmosphere of joyful creative disorder which, surprisingly, is tolerated by a careful hierarchy. Then she studied four years at the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. When she arrived in France, after a brief abstract period inspired by the rhythms of nature, it was at the time of the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks, which marked her deeply, to the point of lastingly darkening the ideal of emancipation and autonomy that she had projected on her stay in Paris. "There is no paradise on earth" she concluded with a melancholy smile. An old doll, bought for 1 euro in a storage room, triggers a click in her. The bitter imprint left by the Iranian confinement, the memory of her fifteen years of teaching visual arts to children, the loneliness of her Parisian exile, all this sentimental nebula found a plastic metaphor in the image of the doll. This is what these delicate earthenware faces evoke, often abused, abandoned, the childish innocence of their ingenuous gazes, a sort of strange absence from the world of the living, as if their attenuated life took place behind the mystery of a theater curtain...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Martyrdom Of Saint Andrew, 19th Century
By Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Martyrdom Of Saint Andrew, 18th/19th Century follower of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) - signed Murillo Huge 19th Century Span...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Figure in a Wide-brimmed Red Hat
Located in Miami, FL
Elegant and graphic study of a figure of undetermined gender. It's executed with quick and confident brush strokes in the artist's signature color scheme of black and red. It's a fla...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Pastel, Gouache, Board

Calling
Located in Denver, CO
James Van Fossan's "Calling" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an elderly man with a long white beard as atmospheric clouds swirl in the background.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Charcoal, Panel

Waterbuck Nebula
Located in Denver, CO
Stephanie Freese's "Waterbuck Nebula" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model in profile with blue hair and horns sprouting from her head that reach int...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Board, Acrylic

1930's Original Parisian Fashion Illustration Watercolor Black Oriental Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1930's French fashion design, no doubt of Parisian origin. The painting, executed in gouache/ watercolor and pencil, is dated to the upper corner ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache, Watercolor, Pencil

Catherine
Located in Denver, CO
Katalin Studlik's "Catherine" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a close up portrait of a female model with a ballerina bun and a dangling gold earring.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Board, Acrylic

Eagle Woman 22
Located in Denver, CO
This is an framed original painting. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Archival Paper, Mixed Media

"On the Lake" American 20th Century Oil Painting In the Style of Camille Carot
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful landscape reminiscent of the great American artist Camille Carrot done. The details are masterfully done with beautiful brush work and wonderfully rich and lush color pal...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Ghost
Located in Denver, CO
Daire Lynch's (IE based) "Ghost" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model in profile with a red glow cast upon her face.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Paper

Portrait of Bridget Drury Lady Shaw, formerly Viscountess Kilmorey
Located in London, GB
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – 1680 London) Portrait of lady with a crown, possibly Bridget Drury Lady Shaw, formerly Viscountess Kilmorey, later Lady Baber (d.1696) c.1665 Oil on canvas 46 1/2 x 40 3/4 inches, Framed 42 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches, Unframed Inscribed left [……….]Isabella James Mulraine wrote the following for this piece: This portrait dates to the middle of the 1660s, the decade when Lely’s career took off as successor to Sir Anthony van Dyck. At the Restoration Charles II had appointed him Principal Painter to the King and paid a pension £200 per annum ‘as formerly to Sr. Vandyke...’1 Lely had trained in Haarlem and he was in his early twenties when he came to London in 1643. He was an astute businessman and a wise courtier. In 1650 he painted a portrait of Oliver Cromwell (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) while maintaining links with the Royalist exiles through the 1650s. He had arrived in England as a painter of small-scale portraits and lush scenes of nymphs in landscapes in a Dutch style. His experience of Van Dyck in English collections transformed his painting. His lavish and alluring vision of Arcadia exactly captured the spirit of the Court and as Principal Painter he dominated English portraiture for the next twenty years. Lely ran a highly efficient studio along Netherlandish lines, employing a team of specialists like the drapery painter John Baptist Gaspars and young artists-in-training like Nicolas de Largilliere. He had numerous rivals during that period, and by 1670 he had introduced numbered standard poses to speed up production, while collaborating with printmakers for further revenue and advertising. He died in 1680 of a stroke while painting, working to the last. The portrait, painted at a date when Lely’s poses and execution were still individual and inventive shows a lady sitting at three-quarter length facing away from the viewer. She has begun to turn towards the viewer, a pose with a long pedigree in art, first used by Leonardo da Vinci in the Mona Lisa (Louvre). She steadies her blue drapery where it might slip from her arm with the movement, a flash of realism beautifully captured. Like Van Dyck, Lely painted his female sitters in a timeless costume rather than contemporary fashion, showing a loose gown and floating silk draperies. It presented the sitter as a classical ideal. The portrait would not date. The saffron dress may be the work of a drapery painter but the brown scarf must be by Lely himself, and appears unfinished, broadly sketched in behind the shoulder. The delicate blue glaze and nervous highlights suggest shimmering translucence. Lely was a master of painting hands – his hand studies are marvels of drawing – and the lady’s hands are superb, exactly drawn, delicately modelled and expressive. The fidgety gestures, clutching the gown, fiddling with the edge of the scarf, give the portrait psychological bite, suggesting the personality behind the calm courtier’s expression, adding to the sense shown in the look of the eyes and mouth that the lady is about to speak. The portrait’s language is Vandykian. The inspiration comes directly from Van Dyck’s English portraits of women. Lely owned Van Dyck’s Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Thimbleby and Dorothy Viscountess Andover (National Gallery, London) and the sitter’s costume quotes Lady Andover’s saffron dress and brown scarf. But Lely paints a generation who sat nearer to the ground and through a dialogue of expression and gesture he shows sitters who are more flesh and blood than Van Dyck’s. The background with a column and curtain is different to those shown in most of Lely’s portraits of women. They tend to include trees or fountains, with a glimpse of landscape. But there are other examples. A portrait of the King’s reigning mistress, Barbara Villiers Duchess of Cleveland...
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1660s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

18th Century Venetian School Portrait of a Bishop Oil on Panel Green Brown Black
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on panel measuring 40 x 30 cm without frame and 48 x 38 with frame representing a great bishop of the Venetian school from the first half of the 18th century. Very curi...
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Early 18th Century Italian School Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Amber Ray, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Lacey Lewis's (US based) "Amber Ray" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model sitting on a red couch, with big dark hair, and pasties over her nipples. Thi...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Portrait of Gerardina Van Osch by Dutch artist Johan Hendrik Neuman (Dutch)
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful realist mid 19th century portrait of Gerardina Van Osch (Dutch, 1819-1898) by Jan Hendrik Neuman (Johan Heinrich Neuman) (German, 1819-1898). S...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

purple hat, social observation, portrait of woman with red hat,
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Champ, oil, ARC Salon Finalist, Portrait Society of America, Florence
Located in Houston, TX
The Champ was painted over several days in the artist studio in Florence, Italy. The painting measures 16 x 12 with a handmade frame from Italy. This is oil on a linen panel which ...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Linen, Panel

Lost #2 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

LADY IN BLACK-In the Manner of G. Bodini Italy figurative oil on canvas painting
Located in Napoli, IT
LADY IN BLACK - Oil on canvas painting, Eugenio De Blasi, Italy, 2011 This is his reinterpretation of a greatest old master painting by Giovanni Boldini. Gold leaf gilded and mohogan...
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Early 2000s Italian School Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Fine Old Master Portrait, by Gillis Claeissens, Portrait of a Lady, 1580, Bruges
By Gillis Claeissens
Located in Greven, DE
Gillis Claeissens Portrait of a Lady, probably "Anne Joigny-de Pamele" Oil on wood, 35,5 x 28 cm Gillis Claeissens has only recently been rediscovered as an important portrait painter of the 16th century. He received his training in the studio of his father, Pieter I Claeissens. Gillis became a freemaster of the St Luke's Guild in Brussels in 1566 and worked at the court of Alexander Farnese in Brussels between 1589 and 1592. Later he was also court painter to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. After his return to Bruges, he created portraits of high Bruges society. It was only through the Forgotten Masters exhibition in Bruges in 2018 that the work of Gillis Claeissens was rediscovered. The present painting recently turned up in a private collection and was confirmed as a typical work by Claeissens by Mrs Oosterwijk at the Museum Groeninghe in Bruges. Gillis Claeissens or Egidius Claeissens (Bruges, 1526 – Bruges, 17 December 1605) was a Flemish painter of portraits and altarpieces and a member of a prominent family of artists originating in Bruges. It has only been possible to distinguish Gillis Claeissens' work from that of his father and siblings after scholars discovered a contract with the artist for the painting of a tryptich. It was further discovered in 2015 that he artist can be identified with the Monogrammist G.E.C. These discoveries have allowed to recognise Gillis Claeissens as an important portraitist alongside Pieter Pourbus in 16th century Bruges. Portrait Paintung, Old Master, Bruges School, Bruges Painting...
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16th Century Northern Renaissance Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Portrait of Lady Bateman, 19th Century
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Lady Bateman, 19th Century School of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) Large 19th Century portrait of Lady Bateman, oil on canvas. Half lengt...
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Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Nebula One
Located in Denver, CO
Trevor Taylor's "Nebula One" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude female model angling her shoulders forward as her hair transforms and blends into the outer spa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Linen, Oil

Lost #3 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Lynx speak Nicolas Kennett 21st Century Bristish painting portrait expressionist
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back "Incanto" or the enchantment of shifting "Nicolas Kennett revisits the organic world through painted and sc...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Waiting Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Push
Located in Denver, CO
Kimberly Dow's "Push" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a female model pushing against a beam as the wind whips her brown hair across her face.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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ABS, Panel, Oil

Marilyn 12, No. 29
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Marilyn 12, No. 29” is a chromogenic print in color by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is unsigned and editioned 72/75. Lawrence Sc...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Portrait Paintings

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Color

Lost #1 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting portrait woman pink
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

REM #6 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Lost #5 Zahra Zeinali 21st Century Iranian painting child world doll pink
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Attributed to John Riley, 17th century English portrait of a girl on a terrace
By John Riley
Located in Bath, Somerset
Portrait of a young girl, full-length, wearing a blue silk gown, standing on a terrace beside a classical urn holding a branch with blossom. Attributed to John Riley...
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

HRDR.FSTR, SMTR Steven Navarro, PanAm Games, Olympics 2024, Team USA
Located in Houston, TX
HRDR.FSTR,SMTR is an oil painting by V...Vaughan of Steve Navarro of California. In late November Steven Navarro is participating in the PanAmerican games in Cali, Colombia after wi...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"An Urgent Man" (Abstract, Black & White, Figurative Oil Painting, Neutral Tone)
Located in Paris, IDF
AN URGENT MAN 2020 Paris, France Oil and acrylic on canvas portray a ‘derbyed’ man attempting to shed the weighted armor of his obligations and persona. A very loose nod to the char...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

A Thin Smile
Located in Denver, CO
Pegah Samaie's "A Thin Smile" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a female model smiling modestly as her face is overlapped ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Nostalgia- 21st Century Dutch Portrait Painting of a Girl with Lantern Plants
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Dutch Female Artist Liseth Visser is no stranger to the world of portraiture. In the past she was nominated for the 'BP portrait award' from 'Th National...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

First Love
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "First Love" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impressionistic portrait of a blonde mother smiling as she cradles her i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Portrait of Margaritta MacDonald in red jacket and white gown (half-length)
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Sir Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756-1823) Title: "Portrait of Margaritta MacDonald in red jacket and white gown (half-length)" *No signature found Circa: 1820 Medium: O...
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1820s Baroque Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Oil, Gesso

Annunciation
Located in Denver, CO
Annunciation, 2021
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

The Good Shepherd Antique German Oil Painting on Canvas Christ with Lamb
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Good Shepherd" German School, circa 1900 oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 19.75 x 24 inches framed: 25 x 30 inches Beautiful oil painti...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait Of Jeanne III d'Albret (1528-1572), 16th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Jeanne III d'Albret (1528-1572), 16th Century French School Court Portrait - oil on panel Fine 16th century French Old Master portrait of Jeanne III, Queen regent or Navarre, oil on panel. Rare and early depiction of the Queen regent in court attire by a French court painter circa 1550. Jeanne d"Albret married Antione De Bourbon to become the Duchess of Vendome. Her son Henri would be come Henri III...
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16th Century Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Bathers On A Mountainous River Landscape, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Bathers On A Mountainous River Landscape, 17th Century attributed to Sisto BADALOCCHIO (1581/85-1647) Fine huge 17th Century Italian Bolognese School Old Master landscape with bathers in a mountainous river landscape, oil on canvas attributed to Sisto Badalocchio. Excellent quality and condition for its age presented in a superb antique gilt frame. Measurements: 120cm x 90cm...
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17th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Halfway, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elena Burykina's "Halfway" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman with her hands folded and supporting her chin as she stares forward, her face cast in light and ...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Portrait Of Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734), 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734), 18th Century Rare Early Scottish School Portrait Large 18th Century Scottish School portrait of the famous outlaw...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala, Oil, Portrait Painting, Figurative Art, American
Located in Houston, TX
Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala by Stacy Kamin was painted as a commission for the gallery. It is 16 x 15 unframed and 20 x 21 framed. It is a handmade w...
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2010s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Natty Dreads" mixed media portrait of a Black woman with cowrie shell headband
Located in Edgartown, MA
"As an African-American artist in today’s world, I embody the vast differences found in our collective backgrounds. I view them as cultural assets. We are always self discovering and...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Resin, Mixed Media

Communist the tramp charlot charlie Chaplin oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquim Falcó (1958) The painter Joaquim Falcó was born in Manresa (Barcelona, Spain) and was related to art from a very early age: at the age of 9 he e...
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Early 2000s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Jan Verhoeven A large Vertical Matisse like Indian woman in a Sari ,
Located in Brookville, NY
A Beautiful Indian woman in a flowing green sari is seated in an exotic chair. The blue and cream rug set off the red and blue background behind her. ...
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1930s Dutch School Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Elvis Presley Icon V /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Rock Music Portrait Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Elvis Presley Icon V" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2019-2022 Medi...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Study Of A Tulip circa 1700
Located in Blackwater, GB
Study Of A Tulip circa 1700 attributed to Simon SAINT-JEAN (1808-1860) Fine 19th Century French study of a tulip, oil on paper laid to board. Beautiful early circa 1840 intricate ...
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Board, Oil

Portrait Of Henry Farington, East India Company, 18th Century
By Arthur Devis
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Henry Farington, East India Company, 18th Century attributed to Arthur DEVIS (1712-1787) One of a matching pair - the other is believ...
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18th Century English School Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Couple, Spiritual, Acrylic on Canvas, Green, Red, Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Das - Untitled - 12 x 12 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas. Style : Subrata Das's works are a poetic representation on Indian Mythological forms, skillfully rendered....
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Blue , American Realist painter, Representational Figurative art, Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Blue is painted in the style of American Realism. The painting is Representational Figurative art which is a time consuming process especially with portraits and figurative art. T...
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sir Roger de Coverley and his Hounds A Sporting Portrait, signed and dated 1843
Located in Lincoln, GB
Sir Roger De Coverly and his Hounds” by Richard Barrett Davis (1782-1854) Oil on Canvas, Unframed Size: 85 x 112cm Framed Size: 114 x 141cm Signed and dated 1843 Richard Barrett D...
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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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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.

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