Portrait Paintings
Portrait Paintings For Sale
Color: Gray
Inspiration, Portrait, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Anatoly Borisovich Tarabanov
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2018
Style: Portrait Art
Title: Inspiration
Size: 23.5...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Black Robe” Oil Painting 63" x 47" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Black Robe” Oil Painting 63" x 47" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Pastel on paper. Framed.
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws up...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Blowpop (Spin Painting)
By Jojo Anavim
Located in Greenwich, CT
Blurring the line between mass consumerism and fine art, New York City based artist Jojo Anavim has established his body of work stemming from a background in graphic design and bran...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nostalgia, Portrait, Contemporary art, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Anatoly Borisovich Tarabanov
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2005
Style: Surrealism
Title: Nostalgia
Size: 35.5" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Feeling Good Oil on Canvas Nigerian Artist 2023 Interior Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Feeling Good: This oil painting is depicting a tremendous and appealing look of a young lady posing while having a bottle of drink in her beautiful Nigerian home.
Joshua Salami...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Bussaghia, Bouée Bleue
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition, Abstract, Portrait, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Anatoly Borisovich Tarabanov
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Abstract Portrait
Title: Composition
Size:...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shadows Speaking to Ghosts by Chris RWK, street art, graffiti, spray paint
By Chris RWK
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Shadows Speaking to Ghosts" (2022), Chris RWK street art, aerosol art, graffiti, comics, red heart, hand lettering, drips, illustration, street artist,...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Portrait Of Violin Player By Neville Stephen Lytton, Of Claude Tryon
Located in York, GB
A Portrait of Claude Tryon (d.1949),holding a violin .This is a painting of the artists son in law
Oil on canvas in gilt frame . Early 20th century
size of painting...
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - L.A 2 Characters
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach. A sleeve - Figurative Acrylic Painting, Minimalism, Pop art
By Joanna Woyda
Located in Warsaw, PL
Joanna Woyda (b. 1981)
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2000-2005). She received her honorary degree in 2005. She was also a scholarship holder of the Ministr...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Deeda Blair at Home, Watercolor portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Deeda Blair at Home, by Manuel Santelices
Ink pen and watercolor on paper
Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W
Unframed
2023
The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pen, Watercolor, Ink, Paper
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Beach 3 Personnages
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Drunken Golfer by Peter Hobbs Golf Original Painting Caricature c1950
By Peter Hobbs
Located in FR
Drunken Golfer by Peter Hobbs Golf Original Painting Caricature c1950
Amusing original sketch caricature of a Golfer
The Drink
Ready to frame
From a series of golf caricatures by the...
Category
1950s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink
Transistor Radio Painting on Canvas 4x6 inches Mute series by Nina Bovasso
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
I've been making these "radio paintings" for about 20 years. I love music and I was thinking about music related objects- like the platinum records "a...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Against All Odds 7
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The face of this black woman shows the expression of victory, success, and triumph.
As humans, it is inevitable sometimes to experience difficulties, but this period strengthens us ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
‘Enlightened’ Abstract Portrait - Mixed Media 40"x30" by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
Enlightened by Masri is a stunning abstract-portrait that depicts a man's upward transcendence into a state of enlightenment.
The thick, textured, and vibrant palette strokes of or...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Invisible Women Groga
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Katherine Reclining with iMac - original female realist still life portraiture
Located in London, Chelsea
Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a composition of portraiture and a still life arrangement presented in an interior scene. The artist applies traditional rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Bathhouse
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Little boy with his grandmother in the bath
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Memories from Past Life - original large painting by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Memories from Past Life - original large art by Paula Craioveanu
Original, large, unique painting, oil on canvas, 150x100cm.
Shipped rolled in a tube from the artist's studio.
Artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Entanglement in Red and Blue- 21st Century Contemporary Portrait of a woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Alejandro Casanova
Entanglement in Red and Blue
130 x 89 cm
oil on canvas
The Spanish artist Alejandro Casanova lives and works in Tenerife, where ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Male Nude - original painting - unique - by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Reclining Male nude. Size 31.5x21.5in / 70x60cm Painted in 2013.
Part of Nude Men series.
Varnished and ready for hanging. Shipping from Forest ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Precipitate, Portrait, Realism, Classical, Florence Academy, Figurative
By Anton Zhou
Located in Houston, TX
Precipitate is painted in the classical style of Realism that he first learned at the Florence Academy of Art. He has painted portraits over the years and is known for showing the expressions in the person's face. He is also know for winning the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo art contest for several years when he was in high school. His paintings sold for over $200,000 with the proceeds going to the scholarship fund.
Anton Zhou
Painter, Draftsman
Anton Zhou is a painter and draftsman whose work operates along the lines of impressionistic realism. Having studied at the Florence Academy of Art and Columbia University in New York City, he paints primarily in oils with elements that span both classical realism and contemporary art. A Houston native, Anton was named a Young Master by the Texas Commission on the Arts and is represented by artist organizations across the states.
Artist Statement
“Crafted by classical methods and embellished with a vibrant palette, my artistic practice revolves around expressing the ephemeral nature of our surroundings. The transitory state of each happening allows for only brief but pure recollections, so adopting a candid lens is a way of genuinely feeling moments, examining their context and illuminating the beauty woven into this space.
A painter of light...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe art, film star art, Hollywood art, celebrity art
By Gill Storr
Located in Deddington, GB
Mixed media on stretched canvas using image printing, decal paper, acrylics and gel/texture mediums.
Gill Storr artist with Wychwood Art. Gill Storr is a London born and based contemporary artist. Following an accomplished career in the graphic design industry, Gill has blended her artistry with her knowledge of design, drawing on previous creative inspirations to add zest and variation to the art pieces she creates. After diligently refining her style over a number of years, she now focuses purely on art and is an emerging artist with work in private collections in the UK and US. Gill has had a standout couple of years, establishing herself as a one to watch within the contemporary art scene, with much more to come in the near future. Gill’s evolution into the art world came about from her desire to add an element of tactility to her work and experience blended into one. Gill coins the phrase ‘deconstructed lens’ to describe her work, creating one-off contemporary pieces that incorporate multiple layers with the traditional medium of paints, oils and gels combined with photographic elements on the canvas, board and paper. Gill’s work serves as a juxtaposition of traditional photography, taking an image that can be stored, re-purposed and viewed from a range of perspectives and creating an original piece that forces the viewer to see the scene purely from the artists’ point...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Gaby Dream
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Post Impressionist Tuscan Figurative Painting 20th century oil canvas
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 40 x 29,8 cm; with wood frame 61 x 51 cm) represents two lovers.
It's signed M Maccari on the bottom right.
Mino Maccari was a satirical artist and journ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
the greco roman question, figure with classical statues, greens, earth tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas, humorous depiction of a woman with classical artwork
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Portrait II (Modern, Academic Style Portrait Painting of a Young Man)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, academic style portrait painting on canvas of a young athletic male
oil on canvas, 26 x 17 inches in antique wood frame
This vertical, contemporary portrait painting of sin...
Category
2010s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jeune femme à l'ombre d'un arbre
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Georges MANZANA-PISSARRO (1871-1961)
Jeune femme à l'ombre d'un arbre
Circa : 1903
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
Format of the work: 27 x 36 cm
Stamp of the artist on the back...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Traveler (blue cloth ) 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Traveler" is an artwork that embodies the spirit of exploration, adventure, and the quest for new experiences. The title itself suggests a sense of movement, curiosity, and the desi...
Category
2010s 85 New Wave Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Acrylic, Charcoal, Canvas
"Nica" is the goddess of victory from Greek mythology
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
On the right side from below and behind
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1951
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 141 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings: Orovida, 3rd-26th January 1952, no. 51
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Blue Mobile
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Female Face Icon X /// Contemporary Pop Street Art Portrait Painting Canvas
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Female Face Icon X"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso
Year: 2023
Medium: Orig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Canvas
Spring
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Portrait of a girl in a headscarf with a samovar
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
LOVE FACE
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Mixed media on paper
Shipped well protected, rolled in a tube, unframed
I can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, contact us without obligation
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Ocean Beach San Francisco
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Working Class Man
Located in Surfside, FL
American artist Samuel Brecher (active NY, 1897-1982) Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right ‘S. Brecher’
Brecher was a very accomplished painter who won over forty prestigious prizes and awards during his career, and had numerous one-man exhibitions. Brecher’s works are included in many important private collections as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Newark Museum of Art. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and is a member of the Salmugundi Club* and the National Academy of Art
Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains, now a part of Poland. His family came to New York in 1910, where Samuel graduated from Cooper Union* in 1921. He studied Art at the National Academy of Design* from 1921-1924, and continued studies under Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Brecher was represented by several well known New York City galleries in the 1940’s and 1950’s including the Kraushaar Gallery, the ACA Gallery, the Hudson Walker Gallery and the Merrill Gallery. During his career he won over forty prestigious prizes and awards and had numerous one-man shows.
Some of Brechers’s contemporary artist friends were Walt Kuhn, Reginald Marsh, Richard Haley...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fix your hair
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Cubans in national headdresses and dresses in the process of communication. One girl fixes another's hair
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
The Beatles Painting by David Hollier
Located in New York, NY
Text from: I Want To Hold Your Hand, November 29th 1963, The Beatles.
Acrylic on canvas.
Piece size: 27" x 47"
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Muddled 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Muddled speaks to my feelings about the present, the whole world has turned upside down right before our very eyes.
The despondent expression in the painting shows a confused act of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Traveler 1 (purple cloth)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Traveler" is an artwork that embodies the spirit of exploration, adventure, and the quest for new experiences. The title itself suggests a sense of movement, curiosity, and the desi...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Acrylic, Canvas
"Night. Silence." Oil Painting 39" x 29" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Night. Silence." Oil Painting 39" x 29" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Year: 2010
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Untitled" Contemporary Abstract Portrait of a Young Man by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri is a passionate Italian, US-based artist whose work has been exhibited in USA, the UK, Germany, Lebanon, Italy and Norway. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, an...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Portrait of a Young Man', Dennis the Menace, Walt Disney, Figural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, 'Ketcham' for Hank Ketcham (American, 1920-2001) and dated 1990.
Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace, was born in Seattle...
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1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Young Girl Portrait Acrylic on Canvas Painting Signed Kimberly Van Rossum
Located in Plainview, NY
A portrait of young girl in a Garden Acrylic on canvas painting signed Kimberly Van Rossom .
The painting feature a young girl standing in a garden and the portrait shows white Wing...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Italian Tuscany Figurative Expressionism Female Nude watercolour ink paper 20st
Located in Florence, IT
The painting is signed and dated: L. NOCENTINI 92.
The style of Ladislao Nocentini can be defined as a sort of Figurative Expressionism: his i...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Italian Tuscany Figurative Expressionism Female Nude ink on paper 20st
Located in Florence, IT
The painting is signed and dated: L. NOCENTINI 91.
The style of Ladislao Nocentini can be defined as a sort of Figurative Expressionism: his i...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Family 2 - Contemporary Minimalistic Figurative Oil Painting, Realism, Beach
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Minimalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman on the beach Spain oil on canvas painting impressionist spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Vives Maristany (XX) - Woman on the beach - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 47x56 cm.
Frameless.
It presents restorations.
Category
1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady Gardener - Modern British Impressionist Fauvist Oil Painting
By Paul Beauvais
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful post impressionist/fauvist impasto oil on board portrait of a lady gardener resting on a bench, by modern British artist Paul Beauvais.
Excellent quality early work by ...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Abstract Figure - Painting by Behçet Safa - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Figure is an original contemporary artwork realized by the artist Behçet Safa (1934-2018).
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated on the back.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
I'm coming already - Acrylic Figurative Painting, Dog, Polish art
By Rafał Bojdys
Located in Warsaw, PL
RAFAŁ BOJDYS (born in 1967) Bojdys studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Graphics Department in Katowice. He graduated from project atelier of Tomasz Jury and painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Novus Amor, Novis Vita V, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita V, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working proces...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Swaying chatter Julien Wolf Contemporary art painting expressionist
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
“At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tried to captur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and Child II
Located in London, GB
'Mother and Child II', watercolour on fine art paper (1970), by Raymond Debiève. In a clear nod to Picasso's influence both stylistically and in terms of subject matter (Picasso pain...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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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