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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Color:  Red
Blue flowers Abstract Colorful Portrait of Girl with Flowers by German Artist
Located in Sempach, LU
Original portrait painting by the German artist Ljubow Jung. Jung is a professional artist and clothes designer. Imitation of stained glass windows. Stained glass windows are made o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she ende...
Category

1970s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Me and My Big Strong Capable Hands (With Tiny Horses)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Me and My Big Strong Capable Hands (With Tiny Horses)," (2021) by artist Anne-Louise Ewen is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 24" x 20" x 1.5". The painting features pink, oran...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Curiosity
Located in Denver, CO
Ryan Morse's "Curiosity" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female models' face curtained by her flowing red hair that cascades around her body and spirals out into...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

French Model
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "French Model" Artist: Pep Suari Medium: Acrylic Paint on Wood Board Size: 15" x 13.5" Framed
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

So Long / oil on wood - contemporary portrait woman red and bold
Located in Burlingame, CA
'So Long' a mysterious and fascinating portrayal of a young women standing inside of a ring of red flowers, in front of a heavy velvet gold and red drape, that is falling on either ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Monster Monk
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice work by Sylvie Magnin, recently discovered. We liked his spontaneity and his ability to transmit his vibrations to us through his works. Let's give the artist the floor to defi...
Category

2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Ojulari I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Ojulari" is a series of three (3) paintings which does have a similarity of a big eyeball. Ojulari simply means "Exterior Appearance" of a person. There is one Yoruba adage that s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Invisible Women Vermell
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

Acrylic, Laid Paper

Invisible Women Negre
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 Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Contentment
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

Opium Dance
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A Little Wine
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is inspired by everyday life .... the struggles and the chaos. In the midst of it all, We have choices to take pleasure in little things too. Painting Ships in a well-...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

Kinda Sorta, 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

Unspoken- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a boycouple
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tania Rivilis Unspoken 63 x 45 cm Oil on wood panel First we can announce some wonderful news! 3 May 2022 Tania Rivilis did win the first price of the Royal Academy of Portraitpain...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Red - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gazing at Lebanese American artist Sally K's floral portrait is consuming and empowering. Inspired by strong, feminine women, she creates pop-realistic paintin...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Omoge Awelewa (The Beauty Maiden)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lisa Palombo, "Big Red Flag Portrait #5" Secretariat Equine Acrylic Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This bold and patriotic equine impressionist painting, "Big Red Flag Portrait #5" by artist Lisa Palombo is a 24x18 acrylic sketch on watercolor paper. De...
Category

2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Roses Are Not Only Red, " Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Roses Are Not Only Red" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with a rose and butterfly cast in a deep red glow. Ar...
Category

2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Contemporary Cubist Abstract Portrait, "Bellic"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original abstract cubist portrait by San Diego artist, Alexander Arshansky. Its dimensions are 20"x20"x1.5". It is unframed. This style could be best describ...
Category

2010s Cubist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Jasper Johns Red (original hand signed mixed media painting, numbered HPM 2/2)
Located in New York, NY
Shepard Fairey Jasper Johns Red, 2010 Silkscreen and mixed media collage on wood. Hand signed twice - on both the front and the back 23 3/4 × 17 1/2 inches Frame included Edition HPM 2/2 This wonderful and culturally significant hand painted multiple on wood board is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Obey Giant Art...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Screen, Acrylic

Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art, Basquiat, red
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Self Portrait of Jay-C JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British sense of humour, 
he addresses stereotypes of modern society and his work, both playful and profound, stimulates us to question conventional social conceptions. JAY-C is a barometer responding to the world around us. Having had his first solo exhibition in 2018, in the same year he did a collaboration with BoConcept on their iconic Imola chair...
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Robert Loughlin Brute Gay LGBT Contemporary NYC Oil Male Portrait "The Smiths"
By Robert Loughlin
Located in New York, NY
Robert Loughlin Brute Gay LGBT Contemporary NYC Oil Male Portrait "The Smiths" The 19 x25 oil on metal is signed and titled "The Smiths" on the ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Metal

Wonder Woman
Located in East Hampton, NY
Faceless Wonder Woman Female POWER Oil Painting There are more super hero painting Comes ROLLED in a tube Needs framing NY Artist Y.M. Lo oil painting. ...
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

KLIM
Located in München, BY
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne KLIM, 2021 Acrylic, African wax print sewn on canvas 198 x 205 cm 78 x 80 3/4 in Exhibition: RAPHAEL ADJETEY A...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Acrylic

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Mosaic, If
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork unframed 60 x 50 x 3 cm What are people's criteria for judging beauty? A beautiful face? A different existence? A feeling of pleasure? Or just follow what others say and make yourself feel the same way? People say the Winged Victory is very beautiful. Admirers come to the Louvre from all over the world. A lot of them just to take a picture to prove they saw it and say to friends, look, this is Winged Victory, how beautiful! Is it really that beautiful in her mind ? not necessarily. If it has head, do you still think it is beautiful? I am afraid many people will have a negative opinion. What is it that blurs the eyes of human beings and makes people's judgments of beauty vary widely? The painting uses knife...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

God is a Negro 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

YELLOW WATCH
Located in München, BY
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne YELLOW WATCH, 2022 Acrylic, African wax print sewn on canvas 205 x 149 cm 80 3/4 x 58 5/8 in
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Acrylic

Seduction
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Self-portrait
Category

2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Fine Lady Caricatures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on artist paper, unframed size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed. proven...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Yoko - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boxing Ring. Boxed Knocked to Floor with 10 Count, Red and Black, Esquire Mag
Located in Miami, FL
Illustration legend Bob Peak depicts a boxer that has fallen to the matt and is being given the 10-count by the referee. Peak captures that peak moment of drama and then exaggerates...
Category

1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Solace (2022), figurative portrait, floral, flowers, pink, street art, muralist
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Solace" (2022), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state Figurative portrait, face, profile portraiture, hair, braids, fl...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art,
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Self Portrait of Jay-C JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British...
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Luxury Redefined, Richi Rich, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Richi Rich keeps toilet paper in his vault. JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British sense of humour,
he addresses stereotypes of modern society and his work, both playful and profound, stimulates us to question conventional social conceptions. JAY-C is a barometer responding to the world around us. Having had his first solo exhibition in 2018, in the same year he did a collaboration with BoConcept on their iconic Imola chair...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Self Portrait (2021) - vibrant, expressive, red, male, figurative, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this haunting self-portrait by Canadian realist Dan Hughes, the artist’s face seems to emerge from a rich red background. Hughes is known for his sensitive and engaging figurative...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Regina - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pop Art Style Portrait of Al Capone
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil and acrylic portrait of Al Capone by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions are 60x60. It is unframed...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Allegorical Portrait of Medusa, "Power Strength and Beauty V"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original acrylic allegorical painting depicting Greek monster Medusa's head by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dim...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Red Intensity
Located in Denver, CO
Ryan Morse's "Red Intensity" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine face curtained by her flowing red hair that cascades around her features and spirals out in...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Magnolia Grandiflora, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Magnolia Grandiflora" is an oil painting that depicts a nude figure in the foreground with a bright red backgroun...
Category

2010s Academic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Perfect Empire #6", Classical Greek Sculpture Portrait Figurative Study on Red
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary figure study of a classical Greek sculpture of a woman with cherub, depicted with expressive brushstrokes on a bold, deep red background...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marion Lewis - 20th Century Acrylic, Bluebird
Located in Corsham, GB
A beautifully vibrant portrait showing a finely dressed woman delicately holding a bluebird to her chest. The artist has signed and inscribed to the reverse. The painting has been pr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Appolo
Located in Miami, FL
A. Laurenti has been exhibiting since 1984 universal, visionary and contemporary paintings. His images bring back to us through his colors, landscapes and personalities that have exi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pigment

Cyclops - 21st Century, Painting, Pink, Orange
Located in Berlin, DE
Cyclops, 2011 acrylic on canvas 7 7/8 H x 7 7/8 W in. 20 H x 20 W cm
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of a young African American woman
By Chuck Tingley
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas by Chuck Tingley. Chuck Tingley is one of four artists responsible for the monumental public art mural commissioned by the Albright Knox Art Gallery, entit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil on Canvas Man Portrait Male Model On Red Background 20"x24" by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
A Lebanese born, Italian artist ,Masri has developed a style that captures mideastern mood with A Lucien Freud brush touch. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, and in ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bigger Guns, Street Art, Pop Art, Wolf, Wall Street
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 2 guns in street art style JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine Br...
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Time for Walkies. Jeffrey! Street Art, Pop Art, Richie Rich
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Richie Rich is walking his Jeff Koons dog. JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a dist...
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

"Contemplation" Black, Pink, Red, Oil on canvas 30"x40" Original 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

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

AVIATRIX Red and Blue Diamond Dust on Canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
Ceravolo is one of The Hampton's most popular urban Pop artists. He has been call the "Rock and Roll Painter" and "Painter of the Stars of Rock" by the media. His Large scale pain...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic Polymer, Canvas

Large 1960's French Portrait of Lady in Red signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Lady in Red" by Sophie Danielle Rubinstain (French 1922-2018) oil painting on canvas, unframed signed and dated 1963 canvas: 32 x 23.5 inches provenance: the artists estate W...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Stars and Stripes, Expressionist Portrait with American Flag
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Stars and Stripes" is an oil on board portrait of a young woman with an American Flag, painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist artist Bernard Harmon. The painting is 41 3/4" x 35...
Category

1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Red Lady, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003) Title: Red Lady Year: circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l. Size: 16 x 11 inches Paper Size: 25 x 1...
Category

1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Luxury Redefined, Richi Rich, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Richi Rich keeps toilet paper in his vault. JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a dis...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

All Smiles, rose
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Panel

Liliane Danino, Queen of the desert, Idealized portrait, Valentines
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Liliane Danino, natural pigments, fabrics on canvas, mixed media, portrait, idealized portrait, woman of virtue, Israeli artist, Israeli art
Category

2010s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Pigment, Mixed Media

Mary Tyler Moore, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Unsigned Contact for exact dimensions. Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, October 1974
Category

1970s Portrait Paintings

Materials

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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