Portrait Paintings
Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Color: Black
Pair of Framed Chinese Emperor and Empress Reverse Glass Paintings
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Immerse yourself in the regal allure of Chinese history with this captivating pair of framed reverse glass paintings depicting a Chinese Emperor and Empress...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass
Pallas Athéna with lance, shield, helmet and breastplate.Anonymus early 19th C.
Located in brussel, BE
After Athena was born fully armed from Zeus' forehead, Triton, acting as a foster parent to the goddess, raised her alongside his daughter, Pallas. The sea god taught both girls the ...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Robert von Steiger (1856-1941) Portrait Dutch Officer A. v. Steiger 1884 Holland
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Johann Ludwig Robert von Steiger
(Swiss, * 8th of January, 1856, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; † 1st of June, 1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Portrait of Karl Alfred Arthur von Steiger
Lie...
Category
1880s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Lady with the Green Collar - Portrait “Style of” Frank Duveneck
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait circa 1900 of a woman in dark clothing with a green collar which is a copy of a similar portrait by Frank Duveneck 1875-1879. The woman i...
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1890s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman Signed S Sassoon Between the Wars Period Oil 1920 – 1940
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Between the Wars Portrait Oil Painting
Bust Portrait of a Gentleman circa 1920 – 1940
Signed S. Sassoon
Oil on Canvas.
Image size 20.9 inches x 17.3 inches ( 53cm x 44cm ).
Frame siz...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 19th Century English Oil Painting Portrait of Country Lady in Headscarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Country Lady
English School, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 21.5 x 25.5 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: basic good condition but ver...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 19th Century English Oil Painting Portrait of Country Squire in Yellow Waist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Country Squire
English School, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 26 x 21.5 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: basic good condition tho...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique portrait of a boy, child portrait, early 1800's male framed portrait
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique oil portrait from the early 1800's of a child in a black feather hat on a stretched canvas, framed, unsigned. This is a truly exceptional oil painting of a child, it reminds ...
Category
1810s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Dutch Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of a Country Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Country Lady
Dutch Impressionist, late 19th century
oil on wood - looks like a cigar box lid?
framed
framed: 11 x 8.5 inches
board: 8.5 x 6 inches
provenance: private c...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1880's German/ French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Man with Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man in a Hat
French/ German School, late 19th century
indistinctly inscribed verso, dated 1888
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 14 x 11.5 inches
provenance: private coll...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Victorian Portrait of a Lady Seated in a Chair Original 19th Century Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Seated Lady
English School, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Victorian English Oil Painting Portrait of a Lady with Necklace framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Victorian Lady
English artist, circa 1870's period
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 27 x 21 inches
canvas: 18 x 14 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: ove...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting a little girl with a dog.
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting of a little girl with a dog signed "A.Lemoine" (1809-1839)with coeval frame.
The scene takes place in the foreground with the presence of the little ...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Fine Victorian Portrait of a Gentleman Original 1870's English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Victorian Gentleman
English artist, circa 1870's period
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 27 x 21 inches
canvas: 18 x 14 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: ove...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Emanuel Oberhauser “Mermaids and Nymphs” An Exceptional Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in New York, NY
Emanuel Oberhauser (Austrian 1854 - 1919) “Mermaids, Neptune and Sea Water Nymphs”
An Exceptional Oil on Canvas Painting painted circa 1885.
Mas...
Category
19th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Large 1800's English Oil Country Gentleman in Parkland before Stately Home
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The English Gentleman and his Country House
English artist, circa 1800-1820 period
Fine Georgian period portrait of a young English gentleman, seated with distant view of his country...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large 1800's French Empire Period Portrait of Gentleman with Silk Gloves
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a French Gentleman, circa 1800's
French artist, Empire period
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 29.5 x 25 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: a few min...
Category
Early 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1850's English Oil Painting Portrait of a Clergy Man in Clothing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The English Vicar
early/ mid Victorian English artist, circa 1850's
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 14.5 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: overall good a...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue macaw perched on a branch
By Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the second half of the 19th century,
follower of Oudry
Blue macaw perched on a branch
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm
Category
Late 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charming Oval 19th Century French Signed Oil Mother & Daughter in Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mother & Daughter
French artist, late 19th century
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 22.5 x 18.5 inches
board: 20 x 15 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady, Naïve Portrait, Folk Art, Puffy Sleeve, Staten Island
By John Bradley
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Attributed to John Bradley ( - After 1847)
" Portrait of a Lady Wearing Puffy Sleeves Holding a Book ", c. 1830s
Oil on Canvas
36" x 29"
Housed in a 2 1/8" Frame
Overall Size: 3...
Category
Early 19th Century Folk Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Gentleman with Cigar Large 19th Century British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman with a Cigar
English artist, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 25 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: overall good a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1820's English Portrait of Country Squire Jane Austen Period Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Country Squire
English artist, circa 1820's period
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 23 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: some minor indents and scuffs but ...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Very Large 19th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait Bearded Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Bearded Man
French Impressionist artist, late 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 38.5 x 30.5 inches
canvas: 36 x 28 inches
provenance: private collection, Franc...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sir Beauchamp, 1880-90 - oil paint, 73x62 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas with its original frame.
Category
1880s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century By Comte d'Houdetot Portrait of GiovanniAntonioFilippini Oil/canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Ancient "cassetta" frame in ebonized wood.
The painting is a copy made for academical purpose, derivation of the painting by Philippe de Champaigne, Portrait of Padre Giovanni Anto...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th-19th Century By Natale Schiavoni Portrait of the Sister Oil on Cardboard
By Natale Schiavoni
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Original frame in gilded wood and gilded pastiglia.
Autograph dedication of the artist in the back of the painting.
Natale Schiavoni (Chioggia (Venice), 1777 – Venice, 1858) wan a...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
19th Century By Giuseppe Molteni Portrait of a Woman Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Beautiful original frame in gilded wood.
Expertise by Prof. Fernando Mazzocca.
Category
19th Century Old Masters 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
Cardinals & Explorer Discussing Maps Grand Elaborate Interior Antique Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Studying the Maps
Italian School, late 19th century
signed lower corner
watercolour on board, framed
framed: 24.5 x 17.5 inches
painting: 20.5 x 14 inches
provenance: private collect...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Pair of antique paintings gilded bronze signed "Lieve du Morvain "1847
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Pair of religious background paintings depicting " Penitent Magdalene" and " Madonna and Child" by Lieve du Morvain, works signed and dated both lower left, oil on ivory.
Magdalene ...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century French Naive Portrait of Gentleman with Moustache Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman
French School, 19th century
circle of Henri Rousseau, 1844 - 1910
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condit...
Category
19th Century Folk Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A portrait of a young man 19th century oil on canvas
Located in LA BOUILLE, FR
Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 in Antwerp - 6 December 1874 in Paris) was a Belgian painter, also known by his Flemish name, under which he signed his works, Egidius Karel Gustaaf or Gustaf Wappers. He was introduced to the art of painting at the academy of painting in Antwerp where he was a student of Guillaume Herreyns and Mathieu-Ignace van Brée, his trip to Paris in 1826 allowed him to introduce the Romantic movement, then essentially French, into the future kingdom of Belgium.
He was successively made commander of the orders of Leopold and Christ (in Portugal), Grand Cross...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century Antique English portrait of a terrier dog head in profile
By George Earl
Located in Woodbury, CT
Attributed to George Earl
Exceptional English 19th century oil on board of a terrier head study in profile.
The quality of the painting is totally outstanding with great skill in how the eyes and fur are painted throughout the painting.
The Earl family were all very skilled painters of animal portraits . This piece has all the quality of either George or Thomas Earl...
Category
1860s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
American Folk Art Portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel British Inventor Engineer
Located in Rochester, NY
Early 19th century American portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel. Brunel was a well known British inventor and engineer. He is credit...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil
19th century portrait military officer 5th Royal Lancashire Militia, East Lancs
Located in York, GB
A fine 19th century oil on canvas portrait stated to be Captain Paul John Henry Butler, 5th Royal Lancashire Militia, half length, wearing breast star. Hou...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Antique silhouette of children, reverse painted on glass
Located in Harkstead, GB
A charming silhouette of a group of children ambling along. So much character is expressed through the minimal monochrome depiction.
English or American School, 19th Century
A silhouette...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Glass
Antique Dog Portrait of "Mignonne" dated 1876 by Louis Eugène Bourgeois
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting of "Mignonne" dated 1876
Louis Eugène Bourgeois (French 1831-1878)
Pastel on cardboard
Signed lower left "E. Bourgeois"
Inscribed upper right "Mignonne."
Rever...
Category
1870s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Huge Antique European Portrait of Girl with Plaits in Hair oil on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Girl with Plaited Hair
European School, late 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 41.5 x 35.5 inches
canvas: 36 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condi...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Lady Sewing - British 19th century art Newlyn School oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful late 19th century portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Walter Langley. It has the hallmarks of the Newlyn School of artists such as the subject matter, com...
Category
1890s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century genre oil painting of a gentleman asleep at a table
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Hermann Armin Kern
Hungarian (1839-1912)
Siesta
Oil on panel, signed, with wax seal to reverse
Image size: 18.25 inches x 12.25 inches
Size including frame: 23.75 inches x 17.75 inc...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th Century German School, Gentleman with Top Hat, 1839
Located in Beachwood, OH
19th Century German School
Br: Venus aus Chemnitz 50 Jahre alt 58 24/5 39, 1839
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
25.5 x 20 inches
30.5 x 24.75 inches, framed
The gentleman is Johann ...
Category
1830s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wonderful Portrait of exceptional quality
Located in LA BOUILLE, FR
Louis Felix Amiel 1802-1864. Ecole national superieure des Beaux Arts. This painting signed bottom left is of exceptional quality resembles the playwright Charles Theodore Cogniard t...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Herbert Fisher, Mid-19th Century Oil Painting, Original Watts Frame
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
c.1855 - 1860
Image size: 19 x 14 inches (48.25 x 37.25 cm)
Original Watts frame
The Sitter
Herbert William Fisher (1826 - 1903) was a British historian, best known for his 'Considerations on the Origin of the American War' (1865). Fisher was tutor to the future King Edward VII, and served as Private Secretary to the 5th Duke of Newcastle. in 1863 he became Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, his former pupil, before being appointed to the position of Vice-Warden of the Stannaries in 1870. One of his daughters, Adeline, married Ralph Vaughan Williams.
George Frederick Watts
Watts (1817 - 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He is known to have said 'I paint ideas, not things'. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as 'Hope' and 'Love and Life' in which the emotions and aspiration life were intended to be represented in a universal symbolic language.
Watts was born in Marylebone in central London on the birthday of George Frederic Handel (after whom he was named), to the second wife of a poor piano-maker. He showed artistic promise very early, learning sculpture from the age of 10 with William Behnes, starting to study devotedly the Elgin Marbles (later writing "It was from them alone that I learned") and then enrolling as a student at the Royal Academy Schools at the age of 18.
He first exhibited at the Academy in 1837, with a picture of "The Wounded Heron" and two portraits, but his attendance at the Academy was short-lived, and his further art education was confined to personal experiment and endeavour, guided by a constant appeal to the standard of ancient Greek sculpture. He also began his portraiture career, receiving patronage from his close contemporary Alexander Constantine Ionides, who later came to be a close friend. In 1849 the first two of the allegorical compositions which form the most characteristic of the artist's productions were exhibited—"Life's Illusions," an elaborate presentment of the vanity of human desires, and "The people that sat in darkness," turning eagerly towards the growing dawn. In 1850 he first gave public expression to his intense longing to improve the condition of humanity in the picture of "The Good Samaritan" bending over the wounded traveller; this, as recorded in the catalogue of the Royal Academy, was "painted as an expression of the artist's admiration and respect for the noble philanthropy of Thomas Wright, of Manchester," and to that city he presented the work. From the late 1840s onward he painted many portraits in France and England, some of which are described below. Notable pictures of the same period are “Sir Galahad...
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1850s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman in a Landscape, Scottish Portraiture, Portrait, Wealthy
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John Pairman (Scottish, 1788 - 1843)
Signed: J Pairman 1820 (Lower, Right)
" Portrait of a Gentleman ", 1820
Oil on Canvas
22 1/4" x 18 5/8"
Housed in a 2 3/4" Husar Frame
Ove...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil on Canvas Portrait Painting of a "Fashionable Young Lady" by Irving Wiles
Located in New York, NY
Irving Ramsay Wiles, 1861-1948
A Fashionable Young Lady
Oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 22 5/8 inches
Signed lower right: Irving R Wiles
Illustrator, teacher, and painter Irving Ramsey Wiles was adept at portraits, figural works, and
landscapes characterized by the informal elegance of cosmopolitan American art at the turn of the twentieth century. Wiles received his earliest art instruction from his father, landscape painter and teacher Lemuel M. Wiles (1826–1905), and at the age of eighteen, in 1879, exhibited his first painting at New York’s prestigious National Academy of Design. After one year’s study at the Art Students League in New York, under the influential painter-teachers William Merritt Chase and J. Carroll Beckwith, Wiles went to Paris for further study. He enrolled in the Académie Julian, a popular school among American artists, and then worked in the studio of French academic painter Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (1837–1917). During his student years Wiles painted watercolor street scenes of Paris, and he also traveled in Italy and in the French countryside.
Wiles returned to New York in 1884 and exhibited two of his sketches. These attracted the notice of the art editor of the popular Century Magazine, who asked the young artist to make illustrations for the journal. Wiles’s illustrations appeared in other publications as well, and he also supported himself by teaching at his studio and at his father’s summer art school in upstate New York. Wiles was elected a member of the progressive Society of American Artists and, after one of his works won a prize there, to the National Academy of Design as an associate member; full membership followed in 1897. By that date, Wiles was able to devote himself more fully to portraits and figural compositions in oils, paintings that mark the influence of his teacher Chase, who remained a lifelong friend. Like his mentor, Wiles also worked in watercolor and pastel and belonged to several organizations devoted to those media, which enjoyed revivals in late-nineteenth-century America. He exhibited his work widely and won numerous awards throughout his career.
In the late 1890s, Wiles and his father moved their summer classes to Peconic, on the North Fork of New York’s Long Island...
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1890s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil on Canvas Portrait Painting of "Femme Avec Le Chapeau Plumé, by Hildebrandt
Located in New York, NY
Howard Logan Hildebrandt, 1872-1958
Femme Avec Le Chapeau Plumé, n.d.
Oil on canvas
26 ½ x 21 ½ inches
Signed (lower right): H L Hildebrandt
Provenance
Private collection, Detroit
A...
Category
1890s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique MUSEUM 1890’s CUBAN Painting, “The ARTIST GRAND CHILDREN”
Located in New York, NY
For sale we have this large portrait depicting two young girls in white dresses, standing side by side and posing for the painting. Painted by John Peoli and the Girls happen to be J...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Portrait of a Gentleman with Top Hat, French Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Joseph Fanelli Semah (French, 1804-1875)
Portrait of a Gentleman with Top Hat, 1830
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left
16.25 x 10.75 inches
18.5 x 13 inches, framed
Lou...
Category
1830s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 7 x 5¼ inches (18 x 13.5 cm)
Framed
This portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at Heatherley’s...
Category
1880s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Antique 19th Century Portrait of a Nobleman American School Painting
Located in Whitefish, MT
Original Antique 19th Century Portrait of a Gentleman American School Oil Painting
Oil on Board, 30" x 25", 33" x 28" Framed
Good conditi...
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1820s Folk Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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.
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1870s 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
Oil, Canvas
Period Portrait of Ohio Governor and Abolitionist Charles Anderson
Located in Baltimore, MD
Portrait and history painter Charles Webber was born in New York State and moved to Cincinnati in the later 19th century. There he became a leader in that city’s art circles. He is ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady Holding Bouquet Of Red Poppies
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Lady Holding Bouquet Of Red Poppies.
Portrait depicting a beautiful young woman holding bouquet of red poppies in a fine pink satin dress.
The painti...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cornish Man - Newlyn School Antique Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A fine late 19th century Newlyn School oil on canvas portrait of a Cornish man. Fine quality portrait of the elderly working man seated in a chair wearin...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of singer Adelina Patti - L. Frossard - Opera
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
L. FROSSARD
(active in Vienna around 1870)
Portrait of Adelina Patti (1843-1919)
Oil on canvas
H. 100.5 cm; L. 73.5 c
Signed lower left
If the artist maintains a certain discretion ...
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1860s French School 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
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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.
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