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A Bobby, a Cowboy, and a Beast
Located in Columbia, MO
Awaiting
c. 2000s
Watercolor and pastel on paper
30 x 22 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Joan Amid Narcissus Oil Gold Leaf Canvas Figurative 33 x 22 Feminine Figurative
Located in Houston, TX
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Joan Amid Narcissus is a new painting by artist Honora Jacob. Also included in the images are two other paintings that were recently completed. Here is an ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pensive young girl
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood
65 x 57 x 8 cm
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait with Knot
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Very fun painting by artist, Ekaterina Bokotey, a graduate of the prestigious Repin Academy in St. Petersburg.
This painting is a great size for a small wall and is a classical pa...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
''Earrings'' Dutch Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Girl with Earrings
Located in Utrecht, NL
Children play the leading role in Edith Snoek's work, and they are a recurring element in almost all of her paintings. Her captivating ''girls'' hang in ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
''Home'' Dutch Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Girl in Front of a House
Located in Utrecht, NL
Children play the leading role in Edith Snoek's work, and they are a recurring element in almost all of her paintings. Her captivating ''girls'' hang in ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
The Cornish Fisherman Antique English Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Sea Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Mate" (Cornish fisherman)
by David W. Haddon (British, early 20th century)
signed and dated 1914
oil on board, framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 16 x 12 inches
provenance: pr...
Category
1910s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Arone 18h00
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pierrot. Surrealistic, Fantasy Oil Painting on Board, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figurative oil on board painting by Polish artist living in the USA, Monika Rossa. Artwork depicts wide variety of fantastical creatures on a black background. Scene takes place at n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Saint Martin de Porres
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
Late 18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Cleansing Actress Series No. 5’ Diptych Portrait Oil On Canvas By Duan
By Duan Zhaonan
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. was Born in 1955 in Yunnan, China, and is a renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright, and Producer.
Mr. Duan serves as Director of the Chinese Dramatic Literature Society and Chairman of the American Chinese Culture Artists Association.
Since 1986, Mr. Duan has been written about in more than twenty regular columns under the title “Duan’s Opera Figure Painting Column” on Chinese Newspapers and Magazines in the US and China. He has published thousands of Opera Figurative paintings. He has been featured in more than two hundred reports and interviews from television, radio, newspapers, and magazines such as American Art Collector and British Art Review. His work is collected by civic institutions, and private patrons across the United States, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and National Level Museums in China.
'Cleansing Actress Series No. 5' by Duan is a captivating diptych-style portrait that transcends time and tradition. This remarkable artwork pays homage to the beauty and mystique of old Chinese artistic styles while introducing a modern twist.
In this piece, the enigmatic woman emerges as if from a bygone era, her visage a blend of art and theatricality. The striking contrast of black and white imbues her portrait with an air of timelessness, while hints of vibrant orange and fiery red add a contemporary touch. Adjacent to her, an old Chinese vase...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Attrib. Filippo Marantonio (1863-1937) - Italian Oil, Reading the Newspaper
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming interior scene depicting a man reading the newspaper to his wife. A pipe rests on the table. Presented in a distressed gilt-effect woo...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Be Brave
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Kristen
Located in PARIS, FR
Acrylic and resin on wood
140 x 140 x 5 cm (55.1 x 55.1 x 2 in)
Unique artwork
Signed by the artist
Certificate of authenticity
The first impression on discovering Alban’s art is u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
Femme au Chapeau, 20th Century Portrait, Figurative Painting of a Woman w/ Hat
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jesus C. Vilallonga (Canadian, 1927-2018)
Femme au Chapeau
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
24 x 16 inches
30 x 21.75 inches, framed
Jesús Carles de Vilallonga was a Spanish/Canadian...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Celeste Amid The Coneflowers Oil Gold Leaf Canvas Figurative 40 x 30 Feminine
Located in Houston, TX
FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT
Celeste Amid The Coneflowers is a new painting by artist Honora Jacob. Also included in the images are two other paintings that were recently completed. He...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
AIWEIWEI by DeGRUPO
Located in New York, NY
TITLE: AIWEIWEI
SIZE: 18X22 INCHES
MEDIUM: ACRYLICS AND AEROSOL ON CANVAS
YEAR:2023
FRAMED WITH WOOD FRAME
SIGNED BY DeGRUPO
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Spray Paint
Gallant
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Portrait of Girl with White Blouse on Black Background Soap Bubbles
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas.
The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Terrier dog painting with detailed brush strokes in a handsome dramatic frame
By Hans Guerin
Located in Charleston, US
A Yorkshire Terrier dog painting masterfully painted by Hans Guerin intrigues with detailed brush strokes and is in a handsome dark frame. The finely detai...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman and Towel By The River_America Martin_Acrylic/Linen_Figurative_Black/White
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman and Towel By The River"
Acrylic on Linen
54.75 x 70.75 in. Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspir...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Portrait of a Lady in an Elaborate Stone Cartouche, Oil on canvas Painting
By Mary Beale
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Lady in an Elaborate Stone Cartouche c.1675-80
Mary Beale (1632-1699)
Titan Fine Art present this superb portrait where the sitter has been portrayed wearing a low-cut white chemise under a gold silk robe with a draped light...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Lady in Russet Silk Dress c.1710, Michael Dahl, oil on canvas painting
By (Circle of) Michael Dahl
Located in London, GB
This charming work is a good example of the type of portrait in vogue during the first quarter of the eighteenth century in Britain. The sitter, portrayed bust-length, wears a russet silk dress over a white chemise...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Patterns and Shapes, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Patterns and Shapes" is a portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 40" x 36" oil on board portrait is painted in a vibrant color palette. "St...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A young black Girl
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Alfred Neville Lewis 1895-1972 was a South African born artist who painted in England and South Africa. This portrait was probably painted in South Africa in the 1950's, it is a youn...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Man and Woman
Located in Austin, TX
Painting by Peter Plonkin (b. 1879)
32 x 46 inches
Oil on Canvas
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Male and female portrait, both in silk kimono, possibly textile dealers
By Christoffel Lubieniecki
Located in Amsterdam, NL
CHRISTOFFEL LUBIENIECKI (1659-1729)
Pair of portraits of a gentleman and a lady, both in silk kimono, before a country house (circa 1680)
Indistinctly signed “C.......” on a box under the man’s left hand
Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 67 cm each
Both sitters are portrayed wearing a silk “Japanese” coat. During the second half of the seventeenth the Japanese silk coat, an adapted Japanese kimono, became a real vogue in the Dutch elite. The exclusive Dutch trade contacts with Japan can explain the popularity of the kimono-style silk coats in the Netherlands. Everybody who could afford one, dressed in such a fashionable and comfortable coat and, like the present sitters, some proud owners had themselves portrayed in a “Japanese” coat often together with an oriental carpet to underline their standing and international connections. These portraits are the work of the Polish-born portraitist Christoffel Lubieniecki (also known as Lubienitski, Lubinitski or Lubiniecki)
Lubieniecki was first trained in Hamburg under Julian Stuhr and after 1675 in Amsterdam under Adriaen Backer and Gerard de Lairesse. He specialized in landscapes, generally of an Italianate character, and in portraits. The loving execution of these contented burghers, enjoying the garden vistas of their country house, places him alongside Amsterdam portraitists such as Constantijn Netscher and Michiel van Musscher...
Category
1680s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Him', A Large Glasgow School Oil Painting Portrait on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large Glasgow School oil on canvas portrait by Scottish artist Stuart Mackenzie. The painting is presented in a plain baton wood frame.
Though not ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Large Antique French Old Master Oil Painting after Rembrandt, self portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 19th century, after the earlier work by Rembrandt
Title: Self portrait of the artist
Medium: oil on canvas, framed in antique gilt swept frame.
Fra...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Virgin Mary Icon IV (Michelangelo) /// Renaissance Christianity Pietà Portrait
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Virgin Mary Icon IV (Michelangelo)"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Canvas
Green Dusks - large green, blue, yellow, woman figurative still life oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A twilight figure is balanced with forms of yellow, green and prussian blue in this sophisticated composition by Jennifer Hornyak who titles the work in French 'Crepiscules verts', ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 18th Century French Old Master Oil Painting The Penitent Magdalene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Penitent Magdalene
French School, 18th century
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 30.5 x 25 inches
framed: 39 x 33 inches
condition: exc...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School 19th Century Memento Mori Human Skull Still Life Oil
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school memento mori still life oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 7L x 7H.
Category
1870s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Portrait of a Girl with Bun and White Top on Black Background
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas.
The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique Continental Old Master oil after Murillo, fine gilt frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 18th/ 19th century Continental School, after Murillo
Title: Figures eating Grapes
Medium: signed oil painting on metal, framed.
Size:...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with a flower-21st century painting of a girl in black dress & white flower
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
'Girl with flower'
100 x 60 cm ( Frame is included in price, size framed in a black frame form the pictures is:
Oil on linen, framed
Painted after life, the artist ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Evy- 21st Century Contemporary Portrait of a young Girl with Beautiful Eyes
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Evy
24 x 30 cm ( it will be delivered framed/ frame is included: size with frame 28 x 34 cm )
Acrylic paint on wood
The Dutch artist Jantina Peperkamp likes to paint portraits of y...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Small Room" Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Small Room" Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube.
A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous, feminine, provocative...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A priori Yankel Contemporary painting arbstract art collage blue character
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and collage on wood panel
Unique work
Hand-signed higher right by the artist
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Young woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Roser Vinardell (1941) - A young woman - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 55x46 cm.
Frame measures 75x66 cm.
ROSER VINARDELL
Roser Vinardell Tolrà was born in Cabrera de Mataró in 1941. ...
Category
1990s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Aechmea fasciata. 2005. Oil on canvas, 50x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Aechmea fasciata. 2005. Oil on canvas, 50x40 cm
Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974)
Born in 1974 in Riga.
Professional education:
1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School;
1995 - 2...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"DAY OFF" Abstract Oil Painting 36" x 30" inch by Carlos Delgado
Located in Culver City, CA
"DAY OFF" Abstract Oil Painting 36" x 30" inch by Carlos Delgado
ABOUT:
Carlos Delgado is a Colombian artist with international recognition living be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Erik Estrada - Black and White Celebrity Portrait Oil Painting
By David Lyle
Located in East Quogue, NY
Fun realistic celebrity 'autograph' black and white portrait painting by David Lyle.
Oil and sharpie marker on panel. Size: 10 x 8 inches. Offered unframed.
This is a realistic oil painting of actor Erik Estrada, best known for his role in the 1970-80s TV series "CHiPs." The painting resembles the vintage autographed press photographs of yesteryear. A fun piece for avid collectors of classic television...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Permanent Marker
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of gestural abstraction with dynamic brush strokes and shapes. Main color is red balanced with yellow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 19th Century Portrait of a French Man with Moustache, Large Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 19th century
Title: Portrait of a smartly dressed gentlema from the 19th century, sporting a moustache.
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed and inscribe...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Study for a Man, Young man, Italian or Dutch School, 17th Century, Old Master
Located in Greven, DE
Study for a Man, perhaps Italian School , Follower of Caracci. Old Master Painting.
In a Golden Frame, 52 x 46 cm.
Category
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Terry Shelbourne (1930-2020) - 1986 Oil, Portrait of a Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. Presented in a wooden frame with an inner gilt detail. On canvas board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stupendous Beauty 2 Oil/ Canvas Nigerian Artist 2023 Portrait Art Realism
Located in Houston, TX
Description: This painting "Stupendous Beauty 2 " conveys the confidence and the very impressive beauty of a black woman that is painted in bold colors in the style of Realism. It is oil on canvas. Stupendous Beauty 2 is a unique work of art, not a print or other type of copy.
Joshua Salami...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Deathbed Of King James I, 19th Century FORD MADDOX BROWN (1821-1893)
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Deathbed Of King James I, 19th Century
FORD MADDOX BROWN (1821-1893)
Large 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite interior scene of the deathbed of King James I,...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Oil - Jack Russell Terrier
Located in Corsham, GB
A portrait depicting a Jack Russell Terrier on a deep green background. A delightful homage to a loved pet. Signed illegibly to the lower right. O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lost and found- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a man laying down
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Victor Schegin 'Seehund'
Lost and Found
130 x 97 cm
oil on canvas
The French artist Victor Schegin 'Seehund' lives and works in Paris.
At the age of 15, young Victor discovered tag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alistair Douglas - Mid 20th Century Oil, Old Gentleman with a Pipe
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming portrait of an old gentleman smoking a pipe. His white hair and long beard are the focal point of the composition, which makes for a strikin...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Lady Anne Howard (nee Montagu) Countess Of Suffolk (1660-1720)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Lady Anne Howard (nee Montagu) Countess Of Suffolk (1660-1720), 18th Century
follower of Sir Peter LELY
Large 18th Century English portrait of...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horace Porter, United States Ambassador to France
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Plaster and gilded wood frame
114 x 95.4 x 10 cm
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eventide, Original Oil and Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Eventide" by Aiden Kringen (United States) is a handmade acrylic and oil painting that depicts a female model with an abstracted background. It is unframed, but ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Wood Chopper, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Wood Chopper, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1917
Oil on masonite
33 x 24 inches
"We were fortunate in that the two farms in Brecksville were still open to our visits. The urbanization of the township was then only beginning and we spent several summers there where I tried to capture something of the rural peace so soon to be erased from the countryside." - Wilcox
Exhibited: “Water Colors and Oils by Frank N. Wilcox,” Cleveland Museum of Art, January 1937.
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School...
Category
1910s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady with a Chiqueador
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Torres Family Collection, Asunción, Paraguay, ca. 1967-2017
While the genre of portraiture flourished in the New World, very few examples of early Spanish colonial portraits have survived to the present day. This remarkable painting is a rare example of female portraiture, depicting a member of the highest echelons of society in Cuzco during the last quarter of the 17th century. Its most distinctive feature is the false beauty mark (called a chiqueador) that the sitter wears on her left temple. Chiqueadores served both a cosmetic and medicinal function. In addition to beautifying their wearers, these silk or velvet pouches often contained medicinal herbs thought to cure headaches.
This painting depicts an unidentified lady from the Creole elite in Cuzco. Her formal posture and black costume are both typical of the established conventions of period portraiture and in line with the severe fashion of the Spanish court under the reign of Charles II, which remained current until the 18th century. She is shown in three-quarter profile, her long braids tied with soft pink bows and decorated with quatrefoil flowers, likely made of silver. Her facial features are idealized and rendered with great subtly, particularly in the rosy cheeks.
While this portrait lacks the conventional coat of arms or cartouche that identifies the sitter, her high status is made clear by the wealth of jewels and luxury materials present in the painting. She is placed in an interior, set off against the red velvet curtain tied in the middle with a knot on her right, and the table covered with gold-trimmed red velvet cloth at the left. The sitter wears a four-tier pearl necklace with a knot in the center with matching three-tiered pearl bracelets and a cross-shaped earing with three increasingly large pearls. She also has several gold and silver rings on both hands—one holds a pair of silver gloves with red lining and the other is posed on a golden metal box, possibly a jewelry box. The materials of her costume are also of the highest quality, particularly the white lace trim of her wide neckline and circular cuffs.
The historical moment in which this painting was produced was particularly rich in commissions of this kind. Following his arrival in Cuzco from Spain in the early 1670’s, bishop Manuel de Mollinedo y Angulo actively promoted the emergence of a distinctive regional school of painting in the city. Additionally, with the increase of wealth and economic prosperity in the New World, portraits quickly became a way for the growing elite class to celebrate their place in society and to preserve their memory. Portraits like this one would have been prominently displayed in a family’s home, perhaps in a dynastic portrait gallery.
We are grateful to Professor Luis Eduardo Wuffarden for his assistance cataloguing this painting on the basis of high-resolution images. He has written that “the sober palette of the canvas, the quality of the pigments, the degree of aging, and the craquelure pattern on the painting layer confirm it to be an authentic and representative work of the Cuzco school of painting...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Violet" Oil painting 55" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Violet" Oil painting 55" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad
Yousra Hafad is an Egyptian artist, born in March 1980. She graduated from Faculty of Art Education in 2001.
Her sumptuous pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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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