Portrait Paintings
Portrait Paintings For Sale
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Abstraction - Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA
studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of A Boy, N Williamson, early 20th Century
By Glyn Philpot
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of A Boy, N Williamson, early 20th Century
inscribed to GLYN WARREN PHILPOT (1884-1937)
Large early 20th Century portrait of a young boy...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Chess", Set of 4 Portraits King-Queen-Bishop-Knight Figurative Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A set of portraits of four chess characters - "the king, the queen, the bishop and the knight". Each of these four acrylic figurative cubist paintings measures 60 cm x 60 cm.
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a Young Gentleman and Pet Dog c.1680, Antique oil on Canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
The portrait genre was valued particularly highly in English society. Neither landscapes nor allegorical pictures were ever priced so highly at exhibitions and in the trade as depictions of people, from the highest aristocracy to scholars, writers, poets and statesmen. This charming portrait, presented by Titan Fine Art, of a fashionable young gentleman and his faithful pet is an excellent example of 17th century child portraiture in England. There is a remarkable beauty and sensitivity to the portrait. The face, particularly well rendered, has captured the character of this young man – both charming and at the same time mischievous.
Only the playful attention of a small dog suggests anything less than patrician dignity. Symbolism was important in portraiture and it provided a pointed and aspirational narrative that would not have been lost on contemporary viewers. For example, the presence of the dog, which was likely the boy’s pet, is at once a charming pictorial device and also a clear allusion to fidelity, trust and loyalty.
The hairstyle and the attire, notably the type of cravat with the blue ribbon, help to date this portrait to between 1670 to 1685. Until the late eighteenth century children were dressed as adults - boys were dressed like men in breeches, vests, and coats between four and seven years of age. The expensive lace is an indication to his family’s wealth.
Held in a good quality and condition antique gilded frame.
Born in Suffolk, Mary Beale, nee Cradock (1633-1699) was employed by many of the most distinguished persons of her time including nobility, landed gentry, and clergymen. Technically accomplished, her paintings are noteworthy for their honest and sympathetic portrayal. In 1651 she married Charles Beale...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'In the Sycamore', Large Figural Oil, Carmel, California Woman Artist, Muralist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Caswell' for Helen Rayburn Caswell (American, 1923-2018) and painted circa 1955.
A substantial, mid-century figural oil by this listed California woman artist who showed her talent at an early age. In Saratoga, Caswell began a successful career as an artist and portrait painter, displaying in galleries in Carmel and teaching artist workshops. In addition to her work as a fine artist and portrait painter, Helen wrote and illustrated over 30 books for children and adults. In 1981, Helen moved to Occidental in Sonoma County where, in addition to continuing to paint and teach, she designed stained glass windows for the Sebastopol United Methodist Church. She was also commissioned to paint numerous murals including at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and for the Elizabeth Seton Center in Menlo Park.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sitting girl with open book
Located in Wien, 9
As a pupil of William Straube, Dora Hitz, Max Pechstein and Willy Jaeckel, Edith Meyer von Kamptz achieved her own individual aesthetic designs with colourfu...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Unveiled" Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Vakseen's "Unveiled" is an original, hand made acrylic painting that depicts layers of color and hyper realistically painted magazine cutouts.
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
"Overcome", Oil Painting
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert ( US based) "Overcome" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a red-headed model gently resting her head in her hand.
Artist bio/statement:
Matt Talbert is a contemporary oil painter living in Southern California. Both a graduate from the Orange County School of the Arts and the Laguna College of Art and Design, he is now named one of the "Top 100 Figurative Artist Working Now" by Poets Artists Magazine. Matt's primary focus is expressive paintings of the human figure exhibited in galleries such as Arcadia Contemporary...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Naughty Children" on Canvas by Harold Stephenson, Aka Abruzzi
By Harold Stephenson
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting features two children with big brown eyes peeking behind red-slatted shutters. The innocence on their faces contrasts with some sense of embarrassment, like if they had...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Judaica Oil Painting, Holy Man Portrait
By Shaul Victor
Located in Surfside, FL
Shaul Victor, (1947-2016), Russian American Israeli artist, paints vivid Judaica/Israel scenes and portraits.
Shaul Victor, painter. Born in Russia in 1947, immigrated to Israel in the early 70's and lived in Safed. He became Orthodox religious.
Shaul Victor graduated from the Academy of Art in Kiev, where he studied between 1967-1973. Immigrated to Israel from the USSR with his wife and children in 1973 after having conflicts and difficulties with the Soviet authorities.
He was accepted as a member to the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association and received a studio and a small gallery in the Artists' Colony in Safed, where he worked for many years. He became a prominent painter among the artists of Safed and received great respect and favorable reviews in the leading Israeli newspapers.
He was also chosen to appear on the Israeli TV (the only channel in the 1980s) about art in Safed.
Select solo exhibitions:
1974 Safed and Bezalel, Jerusalem (Portraits Exhibition).
1976 Smith Gallery London.
1977 Edelstein House, Kiryat Shmona.
Shaul Victor participated in group exhibitions in the Artists' Quarter Gallery in Safed, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, in the Chai Gallery, Chabad Chassidic Art Institute in Brooklyn, and in other art galleries in Brooklyn. Shaul Victor is one of the artists championed by the Chai Gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn New York, they have represented all of the major Lubavitch Hasidic artists such as Baruch Nachshon, Hendel Lieberman...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting by Minnie Agnes Cohen The New Bonnet"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Minnie Agnes Cohen The New Bonnet" 1864 - 1940 Figurative scene painter studied at the Royal Academy Schools where she exhibited. Lived in Axminister, worked in St Iv...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guido Reni Follower – The Death of Cleopatra – 17th Century Italian School
By Guido Reni
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Italian School
By a follower of Guido Reni (1575-1642)
The Death of Cleopatra
• 17th Century
• Oil on octagonal hewn oak panel, ca. 25 x 19 cm
• Octagonal frame, constructed out of a 19th Century gilt frame, ca. 32.5 x 27 cm
Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no charges for handling & delivery
Cleopatra, the last empress...
Category
Mid-17th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Woman portrait by Armand Cacheux - Oil on canvas 92x73 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas without frame
Painter born in Geneva in 1868.
Died in 1965.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arthur Spooner (1873-1962) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Portrait of a Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil portrait of a man in Spooner's typical style with characteristic brushwork, dressed in a smart shirt. Provenance: Bonhams, The Chester Sale, 13 Jun 2021. Unsigned. On ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Female figure - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Female figure is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Includes frame: 93.5 x 73.5 cm
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
He was born in Milan on June 1, 1887 to Giovanni Feltrinelli, the nephew of Giacomo, who was the founder of the Feltrinelli partnership. Feltrinelli was not only a prominent figure in the Italian economic and financial field, but he was also a painter, who was characterized as a strong, impetuous hot colorist, and preferred still lifes, portraits and landscapes. He started his career in 1930 at La Permanente (Milan), where he exhibited a portrait and a still life that won him the Fornara award.
That same year, Feltrinelli exhibited his work at the Venice Biennial and at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan. Together with other prominent avant-garde artists, he participated in various foreign exhibitions on modern Italian painting...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Standing Guard Orientalist Watercolor by Antonio Gargiullo
Located in New York, NY
Orientalist watercolor of a guard standing watch. He stands at the ready, attentively listening while resting his hand on his sash which holds a sheathe...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Holy Family Piola Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Maria Religious
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Genoese school of the second half of the seventeenth century
Circle of Domenico Piola (Genoa 1627-1703)
The Holy Family
Oil painting on canvas
83 x 68 cm. - in an antique frame 99 x...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait, Two Women, Oil on Canvas
Located in Surfside, FL
From the late 1920s to the eve of World War II, Anton Vorauer was an art professor at the Vienna Fine Art Academy. While painting at the Parthenon during the Nazi invasion of Greece,...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bruges Moreno Pincas 21st Century art Contemporary painting portrait figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cora. Contemporary Portrait in Oil on Linen Covered Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A contemporary oil on linen board portrait of Cora, part of a series of portraits: 'Portrait in Landscape' by the Dutch artist Bernadette 'Berna' Van Baarsen. The painting is signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Linen
Portrait Of A Girl "Bringing In The Nets", 19th century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Girl "Bringing In The Nets", 19th century
by Charles Sillem LIDDERDALE (1831-1895)
19th century portrait of a young girl bringing in the nets, oil on canvas by Charle...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dua Lipa Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas Surrealism In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dua Lipa Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas Surrealism In Stock
Caroline Westerhout (Weert, 1970) studied Reproduction Drawing at the Graphic Lyceum in Eindhove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Woman Lady Delle Piane Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century Art
By Giovanni Maria delle Piane dit Mulinaretto (Genoa 1670 - Monticelli d´Ongina 1745)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The beautiful portrait proposed, which represents a Genoese woman of high social origin and dressed in a sumptuous and elegant manner, illustrates the typical stylistic characteristics of the great Genoese portrait painter Giovanni Maria Delle Piane, called the Mulinaretto.
Giovanni Maria delle Piane dit Mulinaretto (Genoa 1670 - Monticelli d´Ongina 1745), attributed
Portrait of a noble Genoese nobleman
Beginning of the 18th century
Oil on canvas, 79 x 65 cm,
In a beautiful carved and gilded wooden frame cm. 106 x 89
The noble lady displays a stern and proud expression, a smile which has just been mentioned but full of determination; the well-erected and authoritative pose is softened by the habit of the red ribbon woven in the hair, reminiscent of the brocade of clothes, according to an interpretive taste typical of Delle Piane.
In the painting we appreciate the meticulous detail of the lace of the sleeves and fabrics on the neckline, the rich drapery of the dress, the contrast of colors between the golden threads of the embroidery and the iridescent red of the fabric that envelops the figure and that emerges from the the dark background. Finally, the pleasant conduction which characterizes the refined line is appreciated in the capacity to make the light glide on the clothes and the complexion of the woman.
The artist, pupil of Giovanni Battista Gaulli...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Oil - Man with Cigar
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming portrait depicts an elderly gentleman smoking a cigar. The artist has used leaf skeletons to create a textural surface for the oil paints. The man's delicate features a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anatomy Moreno Pincas 21st Century art Contemporary art painting figurative art
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fish woman Moreno Pincas 21st Century art Contemporary painting figurative art
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Horizon, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mixed Media on Panel
Located in Austin, TX
Jasmine Zelaya is a multi- disciplinary first generation Honduran- American artist based in Houston, Texas. The daughter of parents who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1970’s, mu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Latex, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Gouache, Panel
Rabbi, Judaica, Mixed Media
By Moshe Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe Katz (Romanian Israeli), 1937- an Israeli citizen, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, as well as at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He received second pr...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
A Nap Before Entering the Synagogue Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Hasidic Rabbi
Located in Surfside, FL
Judaic oil painting by Krakow, Poland born artist Mark Siegband.
Signature on top left. Framed w title plaque on frame.
He is one of many great Jewish Polish artists that included Leopold Gottlieb...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
In Prayer, Early 20th Century, Rabbi Portrait Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Seeberger (Sieberger) was a known artist and post-card designer who lived in Paris and was active around 1900-1940. He was arrested for being a Jew when the Germans occupied Paris in the 1940s. He was brought into a concentration camp...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Venice Landscape Italian Oil on Canvas Painting in Gilt Wood Frame, Belle Epoque
Located in Firenze, IT
This delightful turn of the century (early 20th century) oil on canvas painting represents an Italian landscape with one of the most famous squares in the world: Piazza San Marco in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Figurative in Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude study by Andy Smith (American, 20th Century). A woman is seated, slightly leaning to the left of the composition. The background fades from a rusty red to a dark blue, changing ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Canvas, Oil
Santa
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Salvation Army Santa looks on with a mixture of fatigue and disinterest as a group of children tell him their Christmas gift wish lists in this lighthearted composition by leading American illustrator Leslie Thrasher. This painting was created for the December 20, 1930 issue of Liberty Magazine, for which the artist illustrated covers on a weekly basis for six consecutive years. Thrasher is known for his scenes of everyday American life imbued with a sense of humor, qualities represented to great effect in this charming painting.
Born in 1889 in Piedmont, West Virginia, Thrasher studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a teenager and received a scholarship to study art abroad in Paris. Upon his return, he began studying under Howard Pyle, known as the “father of American illustration.” Thrasher sold his first cover illustration to the Saturday Evening Post in 1912, four years before Norman Rockwell’s first Post cover, and he would go on to produce over 360 magazine covers throughout his career. He painted humorous, relatable scenes of everyday life in America with colorful characters set against white backgrounds. He was also a successful commercial artist, painting advertisements for Cream of Wheat, Chesterfield Cigarettes...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Question of Time - original painting on round canvas Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Inspired by the mythological Greco-Roman origins, these works of art are dreamlike superimposed views of expressive and sometimes sensual figures.
Like the immortal mythological heroes, my subjects remind us of the human ability to remain beautiful and noble despite de passing of time and damage it brings.
This double portrait is a combination of a deconstructed, sectioned ancient marble head...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
10-1-21 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Family
Located in London, GB
'The Family', gouache on fine art paper (1984), by Raymond Dèbieve. In a clear nod to Picasso's influence both stylistically and in terms of subject matter ...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Large Israeli Expressionist Orientalist Oil Painting Draped Child Kibbutz Art
Located in Surfside, FL
William (Sunny) Weintraub, Israeli (Born 1926)
Oil on masonite
William Weintraub (He was also known as Shlomo Weintraub and nicknamed Sonny Weintraub)
Genre: Impressionist
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: framed 24 X 32.5 canvas 19 X 27
In an ever-changing art world that embraces one movement after the next, the timeless art of portraiture can become lost. Portraiture is often associated with the royal paintings of centuries-old French kings, European nobility, and other wealthy individuals from art history's past. However, styles like Social Realism and Dutch genre painting spotlighted...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Male Portrait - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2011
Located in Roma, IT
Male Portrait is a wonderful original oil painting on canvas, realized by the Russian emerging artist, Anastasia Kurakina in 2011.
Signed and dated i n blue ink on the back at the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Circle of Myles Birket Foster, Portrait of a red haired girl
Located in Harkstead, GB
This exceptional quality watercolour depicts a snapshot of innocence and childhood with this delightful portrait of a red-haired young girl. Presented in a fine quality, hand carved and pierced, period frame with inlaid detail.
Circle of Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899)
Portrait of a red-haired young girl
Watercolour with touches of white
4 inches diamter (image only)
11 x 11 inches with frame
This beautiful image is of exceptional quality, as apparent in the delicate detailing to her eyelashes and the sunlit highlights of her hair. This is the work of an artist at the very peak of their powers and the intimacy of the work suggests a connection between artist and sitter such as daughter and parent. The level of draughtsmanship brings to mind artists from this period such as Myles Birket Foster, Fred Morgan and Helen...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Gianni Vagnetti Lady in Red Portrait Painting 20 century oil panel,
By Gianni Vagnetti
Located in Florence, IT
The painting is a portrait of an unknown lady, here depicted with a with an absorbed look. The intense red lipstick, matching with the the dress-allusion to fire and passion-creates ...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Never give up never complain
Located in SAINT-TROPEZ, FR
Joseph is a conceptual artist born in Paris in 1961.
In his latest series of creations, the work assigns to the viewer a place, a function and a power, acting as an abyss as the view...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Wood Panel
"Night Murmurs, " Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Night Murmurs" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a man in a dark interior room with a yellow lamp lit on his bedside table.
Mia Bergeron...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Black pride 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The piece is an illustration of the beauty and strength of an African woman.
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This work is unique, not a print or other...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Acrobat - Mid 20th Century Modern British Circus Performer Portrait Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A wonderful signed and dated 1959 Modern British oil on board portrait of an acrobat by Charles Mussett. Very rare and unusual depiction of the circus performer which is of fine qual...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bask, Original Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Mixed Media Portrait Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Bask, Original Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Mixed Media Portrait Painting
42" x 33" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Oil and Print on Canvas
This mixed media portrait by artist Sarah Jacobs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Color
Mid 19th Century Woman in Black Dress and Lace Cap Original Oil Painting c.1840
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 19th Century Woman in Black Dress and Lace Cap Original Oil Painting c.1840
A fine portrait of an elegant matron with the lappets of her cap held together by a fancy brooch
Ori...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait, 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 9 1/4 x 7 inches (23.5 x 18 cm)
Original pierced gilt frame
This wonderful Pre-Raphaelite self-portrait contributes to the artistic tradition of representi...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Dead Canary, 18th Century
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Dead Canary, 18th Century
circle of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)
18th Century French School portrait of a girl and her dead canary, oil on canvas. Beautiful oval study of t...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Beauty, Red, Pink, Green Color, Acrylic on Canvas Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Oinam Dilip - The Beauty
Acrylic on Canvas, 42 x 42 inches , 2022
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Dilip is one of the most promising young artists with his works very nominally Priced.
Oinam Dilip was born in 1982 in Bishenpur, Dileep received his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Delhi College of Art. In the early years, Oinam experimented with abstract and realist forms of art, which were inspired by the metro cities...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The model
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood
72 x 56 x 6 cm
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Lovers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "The Lovers" is an original artwork made from oil on double vintage portrait paintings on wood by André Schulze. This piece...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Oil
"Undone, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Undone" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto portrait.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
David Goliath Cagnacci Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italian Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Guido Cagnacci (Romagna, 1601 - Vienna, 1663)
workshop / attributable
Quality work depicting David with the head of Goliath (or the Triumph of David)
oil painting on canvas
Dimensio...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rabbi In Prayer, Early 20th Century Oil Painting
By S. Sieberger
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Seiberger, (Seeberger) was a known artist and post-card designer who lived in Paris and was active circa 1900-1940. He was arrested for being a Jew when the Germans occupied Paris in the 1940s. He was brought into a concentration camp...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
At the Yacht Club
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Artist Edward Cucuel and his wife Clara Lotte von Marcard spent their first two decades together in Germany, mostly in a villa on Lake Ammersee in Holzhausen near Munich. It is the works created in this period, mainly outdoor scenes of young women in fashionable attire of the day, that are most collected and appreciated among his works. It’s easy to see why- they capture an elegance and sense of calm and easy leisure- of long days in gardens or by the water.
This is one of those captured moments with a well-dressed woman watching the sailing yacht...
Category
1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cubist Interpretation of Baule Masks, Masques Africains Cubistes.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century French oil on board painting of stylised African Tribal masks by Charles LeBris. Signed, dated and numbered bottom right.
An arresting and colourful work reminiscent of the paintings of Picasso and Modigliani from the beginning of the 20th century.
Le Bris has taken as his subject the Baule masks...
Category
1990s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Board
« The mother lays a wreath…»
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
A young couple in a recreated wedding outfit from the village of Kornych, Kolomiysky District, 19th century.
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Virgin of Tijvin (after a Russian Icon in the style of the 18th century).
Located in Segovia, ES
The Virgin of Tijvin (after a Russian icon in the style of the 18th Century).
Egg tempera and gold leaf on gesso over wood.
Measurements in centimeters: 45 x 36.5 x 3 cm / In inch...
Category
1990s Byzantine Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
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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