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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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Marilyn Monroe - Sweet Dreams
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Panel Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 36.00" x 30.00"
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Panel, Acrylic

Interwoven Socks Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1920-1925 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Size: 29.50" x 23.00" Interwoven Socks Advertisement Literatu...
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1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Thomas Carey
By Paul II van Somer
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Circle of Paul van Somer (Antwerp c. 1577-1621 London) Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Thomas Carey (1597-1634), youngest son of Thomas, 1st Earl of Monmouth Oil...
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Jeremy Abbott, Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jeremy Abbott, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Size: 15.7 H x 11.8 W in. Signed on the back by the artist Unframed ___ Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazi...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

The terrifying night of the first transformation, Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The terrifying night of the first transformation, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Size: 19.7 H x 15.7 W in. Signed on the back by the artist Unframed ___ Ra...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

Masked nº 15, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Masked nº 1, 2015 by Ramonn Vieitez Oil on cotton canvas Size: 23.6 H x 19.7 W in. Signed on the back by the artist Unframed ___ Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist who...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cotton Canvas

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...
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Late 18th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, 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...
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of an Artist (possibly a Self-Portrait)
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Bradley Collection. Private Collection, Upperville, Virginia. Literature: Katlijne van der Stighelen and Hans Vlieghe, Rubens: Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters painted in Antwerp, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, vol. 19, pt. 3, London and Turnhout, 2021, under cat. no. 189, p. 161, and fig. 75. This painting had previously been considered to be by an anonymous Tuscan painter of the sixteenth century in the orbit of Agnolo Bronzino. While the painting does in fact demonstrate a striking formal and compositional similarity to Bronzino’s portraits—compare the nearly identical pose of Bronzino’s Portrait of a Young Man in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fig. 1)—its style is completely foreign to Italian works of the period. That it is painted on an oak panel is further indication of its non-Italian origin. This portrait can in fact be confidently attributed to the Antwerp artist Huybrecht Beuckelaer. Huybrecht, the brother of Joachim Beuckelaer, has only recently been identified as the author of a distinct body of work formerly grouped under the name of the “Monogrammist HB.” In recent studies by Kreidl, Wolters, and Bruyn his remarkable career has been delineated: from its beginnings with Joachim in the workshop of Pieter Aertsen; to his evident travels to Italy where, it has been suggested, he came into contact with Bronzino’s paintings; to his return to Antwerp, where he seems to have assisted Anthonis Mor in painting costume in portraits; to his independent work in Antwerp (where he entered the Guild of Saint Luke in 1579); and, later to his career in England where, known as “Master Hubberd,” he was patronized by the Earl of Leicester. Our painting was recently published by Dr. Katlijne van der Stighelen and Dr. Hans Vlieghe in a volume of the Corpus Rubenianum, in which they write that the painting “has a very Italian air about it and fits convincingly within [Beuckelaer’s] oeuvre.” Stighelen and Vlieghe compare the painting with Peter Paul Ruben’s early Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in which the sitter holds a compass and wears a similarly styled doublet (Fig. 2). Huybrecht both outlived and travelled further afield than his brother Joachim, who made his career primarily in Antwerp. Whereas Joachim was the main artistic inheritor of their uncle and teacher, Pieter Aertson, working in similar style and format as a specialist in large-scale genre and still-life paintings, Huybrecht clearly specialized as a painter of portraits and was greatly influenced by the foreign artists and works he encountered on his travels. His peripatetic life and his distinctly individual hand undoubtedly contributed to the fact his career and artistic output have only recently been rediscovered and reconstructed. His periods abroad seem to have overlapped with the mature phase of his brother Joachim’s career, who enrolled in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke much earlier than his brother, establishing himself as an independent painter in 1560. Joachim’s activity was confined to the following decade and half, and his latest work dates from the last year of his life, 1574. Our portrait was likely produced in the late 1560s, a dating supported by the dendrochronological investigation performed by Dr. Peter Klein, which established that it is painted on an oak panel with an earliest felling date of 1558 and with a fabrication date of ca. 1566. This painting presents a portrait of an artist, almost certainly Huybrecht’s self-portrait. The young sitter is confidently posed in a striking patterned white doublet with a wide collar and an abundance of buttons. He stands with his right arm akimbo, his exaggerated hands both a trademark of Huybrecht and his brother Joachim’s art, as well as a possible reference to the “hand of the artist.” The figure peers out of the painting, interacting intimately and directly with the viewer, as we witness him posed in an interior, the tools and results of his craft visible nearby. He holds a square or ruler in his left hand, while a drawing compass...
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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Robert mapplethorpe portrait, Watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Robert Mapplethorpe Portrait, by Manuel Santelices Watercolor on paper Image size: 15 in. H x 10.5 in. W Unframed 2022 The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

The Veronica of the Virgin (Verónica de la Virgen)
Located in New York, NY
The panel has been attributed both to Joan de Joanes and his son Vicente Macip Comes (Valencia, ca. 1555 – 1623). Provenance: Private Collection, England, by 1886 (according to stencils on the reverse) Private Collection, New Jersey, until 2010 The Veil of Veronica, often called the Sudarium, is one of the most important and well-known relics of Christ. According to legend, Veronica offered Christ her veil as he carried the cross to his crucifixion. He wiped his face with the veil, which left the cloth miraculously imprinted with his image. Depictions of Christ’s face on a veil, or simply images that focused in on Christ’s face, were treasured objects of religious devotion. The popularity of this format also inspired similar images of the face of the Virgin. The iconographic type of the present painting is known as the Veronica of the Virgin, which was especially favored in late medieval and early Renaissance Spain. Distinct from the images of the suffering Christ, the Veronica of the Virgin is based on the legend that Saint Luke painted a portrait of Mary from life. Although scholars have sometimes mistaken them for portraits of Queen Isabella I of Castile (known as Isabel la Católica) or as a depiction of Saint Maria Toribia (known as María de la Cabeza, or, Mary of the Head), paintings like this one were clearly intended as images of the Virgin in the style of Saint Luke’s lost portrait. The Veronica of the Virgin was especially popular in Valencia, and depictions of this subject produced there all stem back to one visual prototype: a Byzantine image in the city’s cathedral (Fig. 1). This early treatment of the Veronica was given to the cathedral in 1437 by Martin the Humane, King of Aragon and Valencia, who promoted religious veneration of the Veronica of the Virgin as part of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. This devotion spread throughout Martin’s kingdom and particularly took hold in Valencia, where the Byzantine image resided. The image, which is displayed in a gold reliquary...
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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Gewitter. Mixed media fashion portrait on a Black and white photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Gewitter, 2022 by Hunter & Gatti Acrylic and scratch on fine art metallic paper with a pearlescent coating Image size: 20.8 in H x 15.7 in W Unframed The “visible” spectrum, probabl...
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Archival Paper, Acrylic

Laßt Blumen sprechen. Mixed media fashion portrait photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Laßt Blumen sprechen, 2022 by Hunter & Gatti Acrylic and scratch on fine art metallic paper with a pearlescent coating Image size: 20.8 in H x 15.7 in W Unframed The “visible” spectrum, probably the most well-known of human sensory limitations, as the human #eye is only capable of perceiving light at wavelenghts between 390 and 750 nanometers. Of course, calling it the “visible” spectrum is a bit of a misnomer, as plenty of animals are capable of perceiving light with frequencies outside this relatively narrow band of electromagnetic radiation. Using infrared black and white...
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

Sled. Mixed media fashion portrait on a Black and white photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sled, 2022, by Hunter & Gatti Acrylic and scratch on fine art metallic paper with a pearlescent coating Image size: 20 in H x 15.5 in W Unframed The “visible” spectrum, probably the most well-known of human sensory limitations, as the human #eye is only capable of perceiving light at wavelenghts between 390 and 750 nanometers. Of course, calling it the “visible” spectrum is a bit of a misnomer, as plenty of animals are capable of perceiving light with frequencies outside this relatively narrow band of electromagnetic radiation. Using infrared black and white...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Metal

Portrait of a Woman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Unsigned Contact for dimensions.
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm (23 ⅝ x 28 ¾ inches) Signed a...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, 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

Young and Noble
Located in Storrs, CT
Oil on canvas board measures 12 x 9; frame dimensions measure 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 1. Artist's signature and date, '09, lower right. Weight is 3.6 pounds.
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Early 2000s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

A Game of Cards by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
A Game of Cards by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil on canvas 59 x 72 cm (23 ¹/₄ x 28 ³/₈ inches) Signed and titled upper right Orovida 1949 Artist biography Orovida Camille Pissarr...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Sogni di Gloria
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Max Pellegrini. "Sogni di Gloria" is a contemporary portrait, oil on canvas in a palette or pinks and blues by Italian artist Max Pellegrini. The work is signed in the ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Young boy by Max Band - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Young boy by Max Band (1901-1974) Oil on canvas 81.2 x 54.4 cm (32 x 21³/₈ inches) Signed lower left Max Band Provenance Private collection, London
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20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The Call
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 16 x 28 inches Framed size: 21 x 33 inches Signed lower left
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman Reading by JOZEF ISRAËLS - Dutch painter, Hague School, portrait art
Located in London, GB
Woman Reading by JOZEF ISRAËLS (1824-1911) Oil on Panel 21 x 12.5 cm (8 1/4 x 4 15/16 inches) Signed lower right Executed circa 1870 Artist biography D...
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19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

A pair of Portraits of a Rabbi by José Schneider
Located in London, GB
A pair of Portraits of a Rabbi by José Schneider (1848-1893) Oil on canvas 2 parts, 21.2 x 18.4 cm (8 ³/₈ x 7 ¹/₄ inches) each Signed lower left on second panel, José Schneider
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Stay
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 16 x 24 inches Framed size: 22.5 x 30.25 inches Signed lower left
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Man
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: with Leo Blumenreich and Julius Böhler, Munich, 1924 Dr. Frederic Goldstein Oppenheimer (1881-1963), San Antonio, Texas; by whom given to: Abraham M. Adler, New York, un...
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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Ronald Reagan vs. Jimmy Carter Debates, " Proposed Art for TV Guide Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic Airbrush and Pastel on Board Signature: Signed Middle Right
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1980s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Acrylic, Board

Bretonne à la Vache by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Oil on panel
Located in London, GB
Bretonne à la Vache by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on panel 54 x 65 (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed and dated lower left, Manzana 1929 Pissarro Inscribed lower left, Pon...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in New York, NY
Circle of Jacques-Louis David (French, 18th Century) Provenance: Private Collection, Buenos Aires Exhibited: “Art of Collecting,” Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, 23 November 2018 – 6 January 2019. This vibrant portrait of young man was traditionally considered a work by Jacques-Louis David, whose style it recalls, but to whom it cannot be convincingly attributed. Rather, it would appear to be by a painter in his immediate following—an artist likely working in France in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Several names have been proposed as the portrait’s author: François Gérard, Louis Hersent, Anne-Louis Girodet (Fig. 1), Theodore Gericault, and Jean-Baptiste Wicar, among others. Some have thought the artist Italian, and have proposed Andrea Appiani, Gaspare Landi...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman
By Ippolito Scarsella (Scarsellino)
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Suida-Manning Collection, New York Private Collection Exhibited: Venetian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, October 30-December 15, 1963, no. 31. Veronese & His Studio in North American Collections, Birmingham Museum of Art, Oct. 1-Nov. 15, 1972, and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Dec. 5-Dec. 31, 1972 Literature: Robert L. Manning, A Loan Exhibition of Venetian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century, exh. cat. New York 1963, cat. no. 31ill., as by Veronese Stephen Clayton and Edward Weeks, eds., introduction by David Rosand, Veronese & His Studio in North American Collections, Birmingham 1972, as by Veronese, p. 38 ill. Terisio Pignatti, Veronese, Venice 1976, I, p. 199, cat. no. A225, II, fig. 908, as attributed to Veronese Terisio Pignatti and Filippo Pedrocco, Veronese; catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence 1991, no. 54°, as attributed to Veronese. Terisio Pignatti and Filippo Pedrocco, Veronese, Milan 1995, II, pp. 517-518ill., cat. no. A 56, under attributed paintings, by Veronese and workshop) John Garton, Grace and Grandeur; The Portraiture of Paolo Veronese, London-Turnhout 2008, p. 237, fig. 77, cat. no. R16, as workshop of Veronese. Scarsellino’s art is widely regarded as critical link between the Renaissance and the Baroque styles in Emilian painting; not only was he an important transmitter of the heritage of the Renaissance, but he was also open to innovative ideas, and was one of the earliest to experiment with the trend to naturalism that would become fundamental to art of the new century. Born around 1550, he received his earliest training from his father Sigismondo, an architect and painter; it was probably while working at his father’s side as a youth that he acquired the nickname Scarsellino, or “little Scarsella”. After absorbing the principles of his art in Ferrara and Parma, he went to Venice in 1570, staying for four years and working in the shop of Veronese. In the following decade, his art —especially in terms of its piety and its development of landscape— demonstrates a strong sympathy with that of the Carracci, with whom he worked in 1592-1593 at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. Maria Angela Novelli and later Alessandra Frabetti both propose that Scarsellino traveled to Rome, although such a trip has not been documented; if he did travel to Rome, it probably would have occurred during the years that Scarsellino’s colleagues Agostino and Annibale Carracci were there, that is, beginning in 1595 and until 1609. The last decades of Scarsellino’s career again involve stylistic experimentation, this time in a manner that would bring his work very close to the progressive figurative naturalism of Carlo Bononi and prepare the way for Guercino. The present portrait of a distinguished gentleman had been long thought to be by Paolo Veronese and was in fact attributed to him by such distinguished connoisseurs as Adolfo Venturi and Wilhelm Suida. The portrait’s style is, however, distinct from Veronese’s, although clearly indebted to it, and the attribution to the young Scarsellino is wholly convincing. The painting would then date from the 1570s – a date confirmed by the costume the subject wears. The puffed hat that appears in the painting had a rather short-lived vogue in the early 1570s. One sees it in Giambattista Moroni’s Portrait of Count...
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18th Century and Earlier Baroque Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dead Relatives - Glenn Brown, contemporary art, abstract, portrait, auerbach
Located in London, GB
Glenn Brown (British, b.1966) Dead Relatives 1995 oil on canvas laid on board 57.8 x 47.6 cm (22¾ x 18¾ in.) signed and dated 'Glenn Brown 1995' (on the verso) Price: £341,250 GBP (...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Portrait of George and Edward Finch-Hatton in Van Dyck Dress
By David Martin
Located in New York, NY
Appointed Portrait Painter to the Prince of Wales in Scotland in 1785, David Martin was the leading Scottish portrait painter of his generation. The artist is best known in the United States for his portrait of Benjamin Franklin, which is in the White House collection, Washington, D.C. The sitters depicted in this double portrait were the sons of the British diplomat Edward Finch-Hatton. George (1747-1823), later of Eastwell Park, Kent, is shown seated, reading an ancient charter or medieval manuscript...
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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', ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Edie Sedgwick, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Edie Sedgwick by Manuel Santelices Acrylic on Canvas 10 in. H x 10 in. W Unframed 2020 The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are explored thro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Head of an Angel
Located in New York, NY
Procaccini was born in Bologna, but his family moved to Milan when the artist was eleven years old. His artistic education was evidently familial— from his father Ercole and his elder brothers Camillo and Carlo Antonio, all painters—but his career began as a sculptor, and at an early age: his first known commission, a sculpted saint for the Duomo of Milan, came when he was only seventeen years old. Procaccini’s earliest documented painting, the Pietà for the Church of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan, was completed by 1604. By this time the artist had made the trip to Parma recorded by his biographers, where he studied Correggio, Mazzola Bedoli, and especially Parmigianino; reflections of their work are apparent throughout Procaccini's career. As Dr. Hugh Brigstocke has recently indicated, the present oil sketch is preparatory for the figure of the angel seen between the heads of the Virgin and St. Charles Borrommeo in Procaccini's altarpiece in the Church of Santa Afra in Brescia (ill. in Il Seicento Lombardo; Catalogo dei dipinti e delle sculture, exh. cat. Milan 1973, no. 98, pl. 113). As such it is the only known oil sketch of Procaccini's that can be directly connected with an extant altarpiece. The finished canvas, The Virgin and Child with Saints Charles Borrommeo and Latino with Angels, remains in the church for which it was painted; it is one of the most significant works of Procaccini's maturity and is generally dated after the artist's trip to Genoa in 1618. The Head of an Angel is an immediate study, no doubt taken from life, but one stylistically suffused with strong echoes of Correggio and Leonardo. Luigi Lanzi, writing of the completed altarpiece in 1796, specifically commented on Procaccini's indebtedness to Correggio (as well as the expressions of the angels) here: “Di Giulio Cesare...
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Oil

(Untitled)
By Frank Benton Linton
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 54.00" x 38.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Eugene Higgins, Age 80.
By Alphaeus Philemon Cole
Located in Storrs, CT
Portrait of Eugene Higgins, Age 80. 1954. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25 (framed 35 x 30). Signed and dated lower right. Cole and Higgins (1874-1958), both lived in Lyme, Connecticut. Higg...
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1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Kobe Bryant
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Stay
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on linen Linen size: 16 x 24 inches Framed size: 22 x 30.5 inches Monogrammed lower left
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

An Ageless Love
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 19.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Image of elderly couple seated in front of a table.
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Atoms and Pearls, #2237. Horst P. Horst homage color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Atoms and Pearls, #2237 by Natasha Zupan Photo Collage 43.3 in. H x 33.85 in. Framed One of a kind Signed lower right on recto by the artist Framed 2018 ____________________________...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Photographic Paper, Acrylic

Female Fencer, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Alfred J. Cammarata
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 40.00" x 30.00", Framed 47.00" x 37.00" Cover of the Saturday Evening Post, April 1, 1933.
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1930s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Listening in the Moonlight
By Norman Hall
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 28.00" x 22.00"
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Templanza, 2019, Acrylic on Canvas with Gold Foil
By Rafael Barón
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Templanza, 2019 by Rafael Barón Acrylic on Canvas with Gold Foil Size: 31.5 in. H x 31.5 in. W Frame: 33.5 in. H x 33.5 in W Signed by the artist Artist certificate One of a kind ___...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Foil, Gold

Girl with Black Cat and Silver Moon - large, rich, figurative oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Jennifer Hornyak’s richly textured oil paintings are reminiscent in form and colour of the great Fauvist artists such as Matisse. This intriguing painting features a young woman hold...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Cabinet Maker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel Dimensions: 55.00" x 42.00" Still painting of a joyous cabinet maker. This illustration is very large in size.
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Young Man
Located in New York, NY
Oil on panel
Category

1980s Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Man with Hat - small blue, white, male portrait figurative still life oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using layers of thick, expressive brushwork, solid colors and slightly flattened space, Jennifer Hornyak has created an elegant portrait of a man in black shirt and white sun hat. The simple, modern forms outlined in black on an indigo ground emphasizes the stillness of the oil portrait on canvas that is reminiscent of the work of Jean Paul Lemieux...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study of Little Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned A study of a little girl. Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 - July 25, 1951) was one of the pre-eminen...
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1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Discipline-Reading Boy
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An ink and watercolor on handmade paper painting by contemporary Chinese artist Jianyong Zeng. "Discipline-Reading Boy" depicts a boy, a necklace of thorns around his neck, reading a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Handmade Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Head of a Classical Poet (Socrates?)
By Pier Francesco Mola
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Possibly Antonio Amici Moretti, Rome, 1690 Roy Clyde Gardner, Union, Mississippi, 1970s until 2004; by whom given to: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 2004-2010 Lit...
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17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Bewigged Gentleman
By Vittore Ghislandi
Located in New York, NY
Vittore Ghislandi, called Fra Galgario Provenance: Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, ca. 1966-1996 Private Collection, USA Exhibited: “Eighteenth Century European Pai...
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18th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings

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Copper

Smoking Pipe
By Otto Kirchner
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 7.13" x 5.50" Image of a man smoking a pipe.
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Man With Pink Shirt - large abstracted male portrait figurative still life oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Hornyak speaks of wanting to capture a certain “pathos and frailty which exists in the human condition.” Indeed, her large portraits speak of a profound sense of human solitude, as f...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

MAD #508 "John 'Boo-Hoo' Boehner 'The Weeper of the House
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Board Richard Williams MAD #508 "John 'Boo-Hoo' Boehner 'The Weeper of the House'" Illustration Original Art (EC/Warners, 2011). The comically sad expression o...
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20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Board, Canvas, Oil

Stroll II - Large, green, blue, red, man and woman, figurative, oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A hunched person in a coat and hat, depicted in painterly passages of moss green, grey, and black walks past a tall figure in red, red flowers and an exciting bicycle in this oil pai...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Man with Striped Shirt - green, male portrait figurative still life oil painting
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using layers of thick, expressive brushwork, solid colors and slightly flattened space, Jennifer Hornyak has created an elegant portrait of a man in a pink and black striped shirt and dark jacket. The simple, modern forms outlined in black on green ground emphasizes the stillness of the oil portrait on canvas that is reminiscent of the work of Jean Paul Lemieux...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Larry
Located in Dallas, TX
Sedrick Huckaby's paintings and works on paper metaphorically express universal themes of faith, family, community, and heritage. Huckaby focuses on the subjects of quilts and portra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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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