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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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To my Friend Edward Evertt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Inscribed "To my Friend Edward Everett orton 03-43"
Category

Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Miranda Priestly aka Ana winter Protrait in The devil wear Prada. 2021
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Miranda Priestly (Meryl Street The Devil Wears Prada), by Manuel Santelices Acrylic on panel Image size: 8 in. H x 6 in. W One of a Kind Unframe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Panel, Acrylic

Orange Backstage, Fashion shows NYC 2021. Watercolor drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Orange Backstage by Manuel Santelices Ink pen, gouache, and watercolor Image size: 6 in. H x 8 in. W One of a Kind Unframed 2021 The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Pen

Young Susan. Portrait. Acrylic on board mounted on stretcher painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Young Susan. Acrylic on board mounted on stretcher ___________________________________________ The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored through the illustrations...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Acrylic

(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Possibly illustrated for Glamour of Fashion Magazine
Category

1930s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Football coach Paul Bear Bryant
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper Under Glass Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: Approximately 12.00" x 16.00" Portrait of Football Coach Paul Bear Bryant
Category

1980s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

This Week Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right This Week Herald Tribune, February 5, 1939 EXHIBITED: The Dana Room, Steinman College center, Franklin and Marshall College, ...
Category

1930s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nude Smoking
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 9.25" x 10.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nurses, Literary Guild, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 17.25" x 12.75" Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cover of Etude Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Man sitting on a chair playing the accordion. Signed Lower Left on Reverse.
Category

1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

For Men Only
Located in Fort Washington, PA
For Men Only Magazine Cover, October 1956 Considered one of America's greatest historical artists, Mort Kunstler has become well known for the extraordinar...
Category

1950s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Woman in Equestrian Clothing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Walter Beach Humphrey specialized in painting magazine covers and he eventually did work for almost all of them, beginning with small-circulation publica...
Category

1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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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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