Portrait Paintings
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Panel, Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Board
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Board
2010s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Board
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Pastel, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Fabric, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Academic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Bamboo Paper
2010s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Paper
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Linen, Oil Pastel, Oil
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Enamel
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil, Cotton Canvas
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil, Paper
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Acrylic, Varnish, Wood Panel
Early 2000s Portrait Paintings
Board, Oil
2010s Portrait Paintings
Oil, Linen
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Clay, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman depicts a portrait of Timothy from the book "Nothing Here to See" by Kevin Wilson. "This reminds me of my own experiences as an only child, when my room was my headquarters and the things inside were my comrades-in-arms for navigating the world of grownups," shares Johansen. In the painting, the boy finds comfort in his stuffed animals, using them as a shield from the people around him.
About the Artist
Artist Johansen Newman captures various characters through charming scenes that often weave nostalgia. A reflection of her fondness for edge and funk prevails in her dynamic portrayal of humans with animals and objects of their affection. As a toddler, her mother gave her crayons and allowed her to draw on the walls of her room. She pursued a degree in painting and printmaking, then furthered her education by studying with Bil Baird at his puppet theater in New York, ultimately forming her puppet troupe. Years of crafting puppets, designing scenery, writing stories, and performing shows developed her arsenal of skills—going on to be an award-winning fiber artist exhibiting throughout North America. She integrates these learnings into her current art practice. "My paintings capture fragments of a tale in a time and place that was, is, or has the promise to become," says Johansen. She works at her studio and display gallery at Gorse Mill Studios, a 19th Century textile mill building in Needham, MA. Her woodworking shop doubles as her home studio, where she constantly evolves her compositions to satisfy her aesthetic. Johansen's work has been featured on the cover of local publications, in pictorial essays, and toured museums across the United States. She was a professional and published illustrator for more than 35 years, including two dozen children's books, three of which she also wrote. Besides creating art, she finds herself an enthusiast of vintage collectibles, jukeboxes, signages, tin toys, neon lights, cookie jars, carnival chalkware...
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings
An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.
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