Old Masters Portrait Paintings
OLD MASTERS
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
Find a collection of Old Masters prints, paintings, drawings and watercolors and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Old Masters
Color: Beige
peter lely (follower) 18th century Portrait Of A Gentleman
By (follower of) Peter Lely
Located in York, GB
A head and shoulders portrait of a gentleman wearing a white powdered wig. The gentleman in question is as yet
unknown but certainly has the look of an aristocrat. oil on canvas, housed in later gilt frame
The painting is 57cm by 44cm (17½ x 22¼ inches high) whilst overall is 58½ x 71 cm (23 x 28 inches high)
The condition overall is very good having had some restoration and also relined and cleaned. There is some cracquelure throughout
and some areas of retouching a few minor abrasions and losses to the background
mainly edges by frame non of which detract from this fine piece.
Peter Lely...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
English 18th century portrait of a lady, Circle of Thomas Murray (1663-1735)
Located in Bath, Somerset
An early 18th century portrait of a young lady, half length, wearing a blue silk gown with white chemise and gold trimmed cloak draped across her arm and shoulders. Her sensitively observed soft expression and skilfully painted youthful 'dewy' complexion are reminiscent of the portrait style of John Closterman whose work Murray would have been familiar with, being a close colleague of Murray's teacher, John Riley.
An old label on the reverse identifies the sitter as a young Princess Charlotte...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century French Rococo Portrait painting of a noble lady - young lady
Located in Antwerp, BE
18th century French Rococo portrait of a young noble lady
This cheerful young lady is looking at the spectator with a sparkling eyes has a cheeky smile on her face, almost as if she has just heard a funny story. She is very elegantly dressed, wearing a blue dress with embroidered silk sleeves. The bodice is adorned with a cream silk band which has been beautifully tied to a ribbon at the top, a tulle-lining completes the dress. Her hair is styled in an elaborate 18th century style and tied together with a blue and cream silk hairband.
This portrait has been wonderfully painted, the artist not only beautifully depicted the fabrics, but also marvellously captured the happy nature of the sitter. The painting really has a soul, when one looks at it, it feels as if one is looking at a real person. It is very close to the works of Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802) and it shares an uncanny resemblance to the portrait that he painted of the Comtesse de Provence, Princess of Savoie and wife of the King Louis XVIII of France. Duplessis is known to have reused many of his favoured compositions in different portraits, but he always applied slight differences, such as in the present painting. We believe that the present painting was created by someone from his very close circle.
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802) was a renowned French portrait painter, famed for his intimately rendered portraits. After training for many years in Paris, Duplessis presented himself to the Académie in 1769 and was afforded the opportunity to exhibit regularly at the Salon. He was very successful and in 1777, he was allowed to paint a full-length portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793) in his state robes. Two years later he created a portrait of Benjamin Franklin in a red coat with a fur collar, a painting which was the subject of much favorable comment. It was destined to become the artist’s most famous work and perhaps the best known image of the great American patriot...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
King Portrait Clementi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century Italian
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Maria Giovanna Battista Clementi known as La Clementina (Turin, 1692 - Turin, 1761), Attributable to
Portrait of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (Turin 1666 - Moncalieri 1732) king of Sardinia, duke of Savoy, marquis of Saluzzo and duke of Monferrato, prince of Piedmont and count of Aosta, Moriana and Nizza from 1675 to 1720.
Oil on oval canvas,
79 x 62 cm., Framed 98 x 82 cm.
The portrayed in this fascinating virile portrait is King Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy, portrayed in ceremonial armor and red cloak according to the traditional courtly iconography, represented half-length, slightly three-quarter-length, with the towering "courtly" wig, according to the dictates of fashion of the first decades of the century, of French inspiration.
In order to represent the power embodied in our austere portrayal, the sovereign is immortalized with the symbolic attributes of the power of the family, identifiable in the ancient crown of the Kingdom of Sardinia, in the scepter with the Mauritian cross and in the necklace of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunziata, established in 1364 by Amedeo VI, as the highest honor of the House of Savoy...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
CHILD - Alfonso Grassi Watercolor on paper Portrait italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
CHILD -Watercolorl on paper cm.51x41 signed lower left by Alfonso Grassi, Italy.
Wooden frame with passeportout cm.94x73
Category
Late 20th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Related Items
18th century Portrait of a young girl, Miss Cator in a landscape, white dress
By John Russell
Located in Woodbury, CT
Portrait of a young British Girl, in her white dress with Pink Sash.
Choosing to acquire an 18th-century portrait of a young girl by English artist John Russell is an opportunity to...
Category
1780s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 21 in W 18 in
GEORGE ROMNEY(after)19th century portrait The Hon.Reverend Anchitel Grey as a Bo
Located in York, GB
A fine painting after George Romney of The Hon.Reverend Anchitel Grey (1774 – 1833) as a Boy
The painting depicts a boy aged about ten, standing, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a blue coat, and white linen collar, a spaniel with its paws on his chest. Shoulder length brown hair. Trees in the background on the right, distant horizon with cloudy sky on the left.
The sitter was the third son of George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1765-1845) and Lady Henrietta Cavendish-Bentinck (died 4th June 1827), daughter of the 2nd Duke of Portland...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Free Shipping
H 36.62 in W 31.89 in D 1.58 in
The Virgin in Adoration - 17th Century Italian Old Master Religious Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful late 17th century Italian Old Master oil on canvas depicting The Virgin in Adoration, circle of Carlo Maratta.
Excellent quality early Italian work, presented in an ant...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 21.26 in W 18.12 in
Portrait of Archibald Ogilvy - British art Old Master portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This rather handsome British Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Thomas Gainsborough. Painted circa 1780 the sitter is identified on the name plate as Archiba...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 36 in W 31 in D 2 in
18th century English portrait of the Duke of Newcastle upon his horse in
By Thomas Spencer
Located in Woodbury, CT
Thomas Spencer was a leading sporting and equestrian artist of the period of John Wootton and James Seymour; his art shows a considerable to debt to tha...
Category
1760s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 48 in W 58 in
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
H 35.44 in W 32.29 in D 3.15 in
Male and female portrait, both in silk kimono, possibly textile dealers
By Christoffel Lubieniecki
Located in Amsterdam, NL
CHRISTOFFEL LUBIENIECKI (1659-1729)
Pair of portraits of a gentleman and a lady, both in silk kimono, before a country house (circa 1680)
Indistinctly signed “C.......” on a box under the man’s left hand
Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 67 cm each
Both sitters are portrayed wearing a silk “Japanese” coat. During the second half of the seventeenth the Japanese silk coat, an adapted Japanese kimono, became a real vogue in the Dutch elite. The exclusive Dutch trade contacts with Japan can explain the popularity of the kimono-style silk coats in the Netherlands. Everybody who could afford one, dressed in such a fashionable and comfortable coat and, like the present sitters, some proud owners had themselves portrayed in a “Japanese” coat often together with an oriental carpet to underline their standing and international connections. These portraits are the work of the Polish-born portraitist Christoffel Lubieniecki (also known as Lubienitski, Lubinitski or Lubiniecki)
Lubieniecki was first trained in Hamburg under Julian Stuhr and after 1675 in Amsterdam under Adriaen Backer and Gerard de Lairesse. He specialized in landscapes, generally of an Italianate character, and in portraits. The loving execution of these contented burghers, enjoying the garden vistas of their country house, places him alongside Amsterdam portraitists such as Constantijn Netscher and Michiel van Musscher...
Category
1680s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Free Shipping
H 31.34 in W 26.38 in D 1.97 in
Art Deco Fashion Illustration Ink and Gouache Drawing by Edouard Halouze
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an Art Deco original illustration drawing, hand-painted with ink and gouache on paper, designed by French artist Edouard Halouze. The artwork features two stylish female mode...
Category
1920s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
H 14.18 in W 12.01 in D 1.97 in
18th century portrait of the painter Nathaniel Dance
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Robert Gallon (1845-1925);
Private Collection, UK.
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
Framed dimensions: 11.5 x 10 inches
This highly engaging, previously unpublished portrait by Johan...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Canvas
Italian 18th Century Oval Religious Oil on Canvas Painting with Saint Dominic
Located in Firenze, IT
This beautiful Italian 18th Century old masters oil painting on oval canvas with giltwood frame is attributed to Solimena and features a religious scene.
In this splendid oval-shaped painting are depicted Saint Dominic...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
CHERUBIM WITH FLOWERS- Italian School - Italian Figurative Oil painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Cherubim with flowers - Oil on canvas cm.80x100 by Giulio Di Sotto, Italy, 2002.
Gold leaf gilded wooden frame available on request
This wonderful oil on canvas represents two putti...
Category
Early 2000s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be ...
Category
1970s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Previously Available Items
Portrait of a man in three-quarter view, wearing a cap, a drawing by Lagneau
Located in PARIS, FR
Lagneau is one of the most mysterious French artists of the time of Louis XIII. While his name is the only bibliographic record we have, he left behind a dazzling series of pastel portraits, widely represented in the major public collections. Here is a typical work of his production: the portrait of an anonymous man, aged about sixty, who looks at us with an air of connivance and a smile...
1. "Lagneau mythique" or the five-legged sheep
The total absence of any anchor point on the life of Lagneau - an artist whose supposed first name (Nicolas) remains questionable - has led some art historians to indulge in these easy puns on our artist's name.
The consensus of historians today is that Lagneau "must have been born at the end of the sixteenth century and still lived (or died) at the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV" . His name (then spelt "Laneau") appears in the inventory drawn up in 1666 after the death of the painter and print publisher Jean 1er Leblond, even though his work had hardly been engraved (we shall return to this point). Marolles is the first to mention it in his Livre des peintres, composed in the 1670s; "he speaks of him in the imperfect tense, which may lead one to believe that the artist had died by that date".
These few elements do not answer any of the questions that one might legitimately ask about the artist's life or the purpose of his work. If these drawings seem to be real portraits and not expressive heads, we know neither why they were drawn, nor who they represent since "it has not been possible to identify a single model of Lagneau". There is only one book entirely devoted to the artist, the catalogue of the exhibition held in Chantilly in 2005, on which we did rely extensively for this note.
While it is impossible to know whether Lagneau remained in Paris (as the early collections in which his portraits appear might suggest), or travelled, for example to Lorraine ( as some of his expressions bring him closer to Georges de la Tour), it is certain that Lagneau was not a court amn, as his models generally belonged to the low or middle classes.
2. Description of the portrait and related artworks
This portrait is presenting to us with a a strong realism a middle-aged man, with a lively and mischievous look, his nose and cheeks reddened by the cold (or by the heat of a fireplace). The hair sticking...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Pair of 17th century British Portraits of the brothers Baronet Stapleton English
Located in Antwerp, BE
Pair of 17th century British Portraits, James and William Stapleton, 2nd and 3rd Baronet Stapleton of the Leeward Islands, at the ages of 11 and 8, ca ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
peter lely (follower) 18th century Portrait Of A Gentleman,
By (follower of) Peter Lely
Located in York, GB
A head and shoulders portrait of a gentleman wearing a white powdered wig. The gentleman in question is as yet
unknown but certainly has the look of an aristocrat. oil on canvas, housed in later gilt frame
The painting is 57cm by 44cm (17½ x 22¼ inches high) whilst overall is 58½ x 71 cm (23 x 28 inches high)
The condition overall is very good having been relined and cleaned. There is some cracquelure throughout
and some areas of retouching a few minor abrasions and losses to the background
mainly edges by frame non of which detract from this fine piece.
Peter Lely...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Free Shipping
H 27.96 in W 23.04 in D 1.58 in
18th century antique portrait of an aristocratic lady, follower peter lely
Located in York, GB
portrait of an aristocratic lady in grey dress with pearls, 18th century, follower peter lely .Oil on canvas,
housed in an ebonised frame.The size overall being 84 x 94 cm high (33 x...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Free Shipping
H 37.01 in W 33.08 in D 1.97 in
Sacrifice Isaac Lazzarini Paint Oil on canvas Old master 18th Century Italian
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Gregorio Lazzarini (Venice 1655 - Villabona Veronese 1730)
The sacrifice of Isaac
Oil on round canvas,
Diam. 76 cm., In frame 96 cm.
Signed on the back 'Gregorio Lazzarini'
The pa...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Antique French Old Master Sanguine Drawing Portrait of Man Flowing Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Head Portrait of a Man"
French Old Master School, 19th century
sanguine chalk drawing on paper, unframed
painting: 17 x 23.5 inches
Condition report:
The painting is in good and s...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Portrait of a British Officer in a Scarlet Uniform c.1805
By Sir William Beechey
Located in London, GB
This exquisite portrait bears testimony to the artist’s ability to convey not just a likeness but something of the character of the sitter – self-assured, but there is also a sense o...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair Venus Diana De Matteis 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy Quality
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Neapolitan painter of the eighteenth century
Circle of Paolo De Matteis (Piano Vetrale, 1662 - Naples, 1728)
a) Venus and Cupid in the forge of Vulcan
b) Di...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
FINE 18TH CENTURY GERMAN OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING - THE MADONNA & INFANT CHRIST
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: German School, 18th century
Title: The Madonna and infant Christ
Medium: oil painting on board, framed
Size: painting: 29cm x 24cm
Provenance: private c...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saint Joseph Paint Oil on canvas De Mura Italy Baroque Art Quality 18th Century
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Eighteenth-century Neapolitan school
Francesco De Mura (Naples, 1696 - 1782), workshop of
St. Joseph
oil on oval canvas, 74 x 96 cm.
with antic frame, 84 x 106 cm.
It is a splendid ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Sketch - Figurative study of a gentleman in a turban
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
William Lock the Younger (Norbury 1767-1847 Mickleham)
Portrait Sketch - Figurative study of a gentleman in a turban
Pen & ink on paper
Signed upper middle right
Drawing size - 13 x ...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Free Shipping
H 5.12 in W 4.34 in
Virgin and Christ Child, Oil on Marble circa 1620
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Virgin and Christ Child
Flemish School, circa 1620's
oil painting on marble, framed
framed measurements: 8.5 x 7.25 inches
Very fine quality early 17th...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Marble
Old Masters portrait paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Old Masters portrait paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including (After) Giampietrino, Henri-Joseph Castaing, Charles Towne, and Jean Alexandre Rémy Couder. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Old Masters portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 4.53 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $695 and tops out at $339,912, while the average work sells for $4,791.
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Italian Food Posters
Holy Roman Emperor
Set Of Carousel Horses
Greek Russian Icon
Lord Chancellor
Montse Valdes
Antique British Military Portraits
Adickes Red
Grisaille Portrait
Sunday At Tiffanys
Joseph Richardson
Miniature Portrait Of A Boy
Suchitra Bhosle
St Rocco
Mummy Painting
Gentleman Dog Portrait
Sundays At Tiffanys