Realist Portrait Paintings

Matt Talbert ( US based) "You and I" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a couple leaning in to kiss each other as they are cast in the glow of a red light. Artist b...

"Street of Shadows - Finding the Light 2," is an original oil painting on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader. It is framed and ready-to-hang.

Daire Lynch's "The Last Remaining Time" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blonde haired feminine figure cast in red light with a dark ba...

'Wicked Witch of the East' is a masterfully painted oil on panel, that features a long haired, young and nude woman with a scar down her stomach. I bird atop her head gazes down at a...

Jodie Herrera's (US based) "Hope" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a Native American woman with a blanket wrapped around her shoulders with traditional symbols in t...

Kelly Birkenruth's (US based) "Lost in Thought" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lone female figure in profile looking towards Japanese blossoms in the background while resting her elbow on her knee. Kelly Birkenruth’s captivating paintings are in the style of contemporary realism while staying firmly grounded in the tradition of the Old Masters. She is able to pull the viewer into her paintings by interweaving emotion with a humanistic quality through her supreme handling of light. Through her portraits and still lifes she is able to evoke sensitivity and empathy, which in turn allows her to create images which transcend mere representation to capture the true essence of her subject. Kelly’s arresting compositions, draftsmanship, use of color and observation of detail allow her to create paintings with a timeless quality. After earning her degree from Pennsylvania State University, Kelly moved to southern California where she began a career as a fashion model. Her agency soon sent her abroad to Paris and Tokyo, where she spent the next several years modeling. When she wasn’t walking the runway, she spent endless hours in the great museums of the world, closely observing and studying the works of the Old Masters. “My time abroad, particularly in Paris, opened my eyes to the vast beauty and power of a great painting. After that I knew I wanted to dedicate my life to the pursuit of Fine Art” said Birkenruth. After returning to the States, Kelly studied at Otis College of Art in Los Angeles, CA. She then continued her studies through workshops and private study with renowned artists such as Daniel Sprick, Steven Assael and Jesus Emmanuel Villarreal. In the spring of 2019 Kelly...

Paintnig is on exhibition, please cuntact us for availability Gabryela Wasowicz is a Polish painter born in 1947. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw and then at the G...

This superb British portrait oil painting is by noted artist Alfred Kinglsey Lawrence. Painted in 1919 it is a seated portrait of a young woman with a lush burgundy velvet curtain be...

Henri LANGEROCK Ghent, 1830 – Marseille, 1915 Oil on canvas 45 x 33 cm (69 x 57 cm with the frame) Signed top right "H. Langerock" Beautiful 19th century gilded wood frame Henri Langerock was a Belgian painter born in Ghent but who worked in France and died in Marseille. He also traveled a lot, in France and abroad. Langerock first became known for his landscapes of France (Vosges, Picardy, Ardèche...). Then he traveled to Egypt and Brazil between 1878 and 1885, as well as to black Africa. He exhibited his painting of a traveling painter at the Paris Salon until 1901. Our painting is a beautiful portrait of a young girl with a lace headdress and a sequin necklace...

Linda Tracey Brandon's (US based) "Sun Worship" is an oil painting that depicts a fair lady sitting on a park bench surrounded by foliage; her arm thrown o...

Timur Akhriev's (US and EU based) "Worship" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lone nude female figure kneeling on a bed of lily pads with pink flowers and bent over as if worshiping, with deteriorating structures in the background and a seagull flying overhead. Born in Vladikavkaz, the territory where Southern Russia meets Chechnya in 1983, Timur lived with his family until moving from the region during the conflict of 1991. After moving to St. Petersburg Timur began attending the St. Petersburg Iagonson Fine Art School at the age of twelve, where many of the professors studied at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts. After graduation in 2002, Timur immigrated to Chattanooga Tennessee...

'He Knows' features the beautiful face of a boy with down syndrome encircled with lace and shrouded in dignified mystery. The small painting is 7 x 5 1/2 inches, framed 8 3/4 x 7 1/4...

Joanna Barnum's (US based) "Blaze" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts a female red-headed model using a double exposure effect. ...

This stunning portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist and prominent Glasgow Boy Society President William Kennedy. The painting is a portrait of the head and shoulders of a...

Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Bed of Roses" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with roses and a colorful background....

Kirsten Savage's "What Was Left Behind" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a shirtless man holding a piece of fabric between his hands wi...

Linda Tracey Brandon's (US based) "Night Speed Skating" is an mixed media drawing that depicts a black clad skater racing towards the foreground w...

Rebecca Mason Adams (US based) "Georgia No 1" is a black and white acrylic painting that depicts a female figure in a white sweater distorted by shadows and projected patterning. Rebecca Adams is an artist based out of Providence, RI. She graduated from RISD in 2006 with a BFA in photography. Her paintings focus on black and white portraiture referencing stylized and graphic photography...

This charming Victorian genre oil painting is by noted British artist Frederick George Pasmore junior. The painting is full of rich colour and tells a story. The scene is a detailed ...

HRDR.FSTR,SMTR is an oil painting by V...Vaughan of Steve Navarro of California. In late November Steven Navarro is participating in the PanAmerican games in Cali, Colombia after winning the Gold Medal at the PanAmerican Games in Guadalajara. He is ranked #1 in his weight division of 114 lbs.He most likely will qualify for the Paris 2024...

This super realistic image of an older man, head slightly tilted as he looks soberly through reflective lenses is a poignant psychological portrait by Dan Hughes. An octane blue halo...

This lovely Scottish interior genre oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Robert Gemmell Hutchison. Painted circa 1890 Hutchison painted several versions of this scene of a young ...

Janusz Szpyt was born in 1960, he is a Polish painter. He graduated from the Graphic design faculty and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. 1983 onward, he became the m...

"Portrait of Horace" Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan) Oil on cardboard, signed 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 (16 3/4 x 14 3/4 frame) inches Emin Abbasov is classicall...

Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Shangri-La" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lone woman, with dark bangs, holding her hand in the yoga position of Shangri-La in a pink...

'Room Alone' is a masterfully painted oil on canvas, that features a young bespectacled semi-nude woman redlining on a pile of rocks at the interior of a formal room with heavy drape...

This piece, "White Magic", is a 36x48 equine oil painting on canvas by artist Adrian Rigby. Depicted is a majestic white horse caught mid gallop. The artist painted the horse runni...

Scottish artist, David McEwen's oil painting, "Last Chukka" of a Polo groom with polo horse in Wellington, FL in the US depicts the life of Palm Beach Polo Season. McEwen is renown ...

"Outdoor, Winter Self Portrait" is a realist oil on canvas painting. It depicts a self portrait of Rachel Personett with a blue and brownish gray backdrop. In “Outdoor, Winter Self...

Portrait of a Woman and Infant in White - Oil on Canvas Natalie Wood Elegant portrait of a woman and her newborn child (*Natalie Wood and Natasha) by Cindy Gin (Cindy Lin) (American...

This impressive large portrait realist oil painting is by noted Scottish artist David Cowan Dobson. One of a pair, the sitter is Mr R H Sinclair and dates to 1914. He is beautifully ...

Casey Childs' (US based) "Last Light" is an oil painting that depicts a lone female figure sitting with a red umbrella looking out towards a field and tre...

Fred Wessel's "The Constellation Delphinus" is an egg tempera painting with gold and silver leaf created in 2019 depicting a female with a gold leaf background. About the artist: ...

Description: This painting "Stupendous Beauty 1 " conveys the confidence and the very impressive beauty of a black woman that is painted in bold colors in the style of Realism. It is oil on canvas. Stupendous Beauty 1 is a unique work of art, not a print or other type of copy. Joshua Salami...

An oil painting by Contemporary Italian Realist painter, Daniela Astone - A nude figure sits on a sterile, white floor. A mirror presents the figure's back from another angle. She holds a towel up to her face, partially covering her chest and lap. One leg is tucked up behind her, her reflection however shows neither the hand with the towel nor the foot she sits on. Artist Bio: Daniela Astone was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1980 and raised in Porto Santo Stefano...

"Portrait of Nathalie" Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan) Oil on cardboard, signed 4 5/8 x 3 1/2 (16 1/2 x 15 1/4 frame) inches Emin Abbasov is classica...

"Beyond Reality #2" Portrait Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube. A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous, femin...

Thelma Appel Charlie Playing, Arie Singing, 2020 Acrylic on canvas. Hand signed by the artist on the front; signed, titled and dated by the artist on the back 20 × 16 × 1/2 inches F...

A 10” x 11.5” x 1” Magical Realism Acrylic Portrait Painting executed on Vellum by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchas...

Provenance On consignment to the gallery from a private collector in Newport Beach, California. Artist Statement "Miao people are one of the largest ethnic groups in China. Guizhou,...

Large magnificent colorful Ruth Schloss oil painting of a child with a wagon with a doll or a baby in a carriage stroller.. Signed in Hebrew size measures 31x43 with frame , 23x35.25 without the frame. (this is being sold unframed). Ruth Schloss (22 November 1922 – 2013) was an Israeli painter and illustrator who mainly depicted neglected scenes such as Arabs, transition camps, children and women at eye-level as egalitarian, socialist view via social realism style painting and drawing. Schloss became Israeli painting’s sensitive, conscious, remembering eye. Ruth Schloss was born on 22 November 1922, in Nuremberg, Germany, to Ludwig and Dian Schloss, as the second of three daughters of bourgeois assimilationist Jewish family well-integrated into German culture. As the Nazis came into power in 1933, her family immigrated to Israel in 1937, and settled in Kfar Shmaryahu, then an agricultural settlement. Schloss studied at the Department of Schloss graphic design at "Bezalel" from 1938 to 1942 alongside Friedel Stern and Joseph Hirsch. She was a realistic painter who focused on disadvantaged people in the society and social matters as an egalitarian. Her realism was thus an “inevitable realism,” motivated by an inner necessity: the need to observe reality as it is. Her painting repeatedly addressed the door pulled from its frame, employing drawing’s unique ability to stop time and prolong the image’s persistence in the retina, she repeatedly committed to paper - in a matter-of-fact, non-evasive manner devoid of mystery – man’s tendency to generate chaos, suffering and pain. Throughout her life, Schloss remained minimalist. Painting about human fate was the main subject of her artworks. Her natural inclination was to describe the darker aspect of human existence. 1930s The Schloss household was characterized by open, liberal spirit, in keeping with the parents’ progressive views. It deeply influenced Ruth’s mental development, as she learned to tie culture and art with sensitivity towards the weak and underprivileged. In Jerusalem, she joined a commune of Hashomer Hatzair in which she shaped her socialist views, which she maintained throughout her long career. 1940s In this period she mainly depicted landscapes of kibbutz and wretched women living hard life, children in huger, older people, refugees. After completing her art studies, Schloss joined a training group at Kibbutz Merhavia in 1942, and after two years moved to Karkur region, the nucleus established Kibutz Lehavot Habashan in the Upper Galilee. Through this time, she fell in love with the surroundings and drew landscapes. They are simple and direct with fresh, lucid lines. These paintings were selected as the main works of her first exhibition in 1949. In early 1945, Schloss started to draw illustrations in the children’s magazine Mishmar Leyeladim, and designed the logo of Al Hamishmar, the paper’s new name in 1948. In 1948, upon the founding of Mapam (United Workers’ Party), she designed her party’s emblem, which became a well-known icon. She kept working as an illustrator for Mishmar Layeladim until 1949. "Mor the Monkey" project yielded financial profits and this income was used for a study trip to Paris for two years. She was succesfull as illustrator however, she had inner conflicts of her identity as witnessed painter toward neglected class in Israeli society. First Exhibition at Mikra-Studio Gallery, 1949 She presented forty drawings on paper in her first solo exhibition, representing a selection of the themes of kibbutz landscape, its lifestyle. Schloss confidently proposed her direction through simplicity without using colors in her drawings. 1950s Between 1949 and 1951, she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. She began working in oils, with which she continued throughout the 1960s. The exhibition “Back from Paris” opened in November 1951 at Mikra-Studio Gallery . In 1951 she married Benjamin Cohen, who served as chairman of the national leadership of Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party in Tel Aviv. He was a theoretician and a man of principle, highly esteemed by its leaders who became a professor of history at Tel Aviv University. In 1953, following the Mordechai Oren affair and the publication of Moshe Sneh 's followers from Kibbutz Artzi, she and her husband left the kibbutz and moved to the agricultural farm, Kfar Shmaryahu, where she lived until her death. At a certain point in Israeli history, segments of the socialist movement felt that Israel should become part of the Communist bloc, rather than seek the support of the western world. Because the Schloss couple support of Moshe Sneh’s left-wing party, they had to leave the kibbutz. She loved to depict ordinary women as figurative on her painting without hiding or making up anything. The poet Natan Zach wrote about her works in 1955: “Her motto remains that which has been all these years: life as it is, without bluffing." Schloss’s “Pietà” (1953) became a universal cry expressing the pain of mothers on either side of the divide. In the late 1950s, she was the mother of two daughters. When she drew her daughters, unlike the universal babies she depicted, naked and with clenched fists, the painting of her children employed babyish sweetness to the full in a quiet, peaceful and heart-stirring filling rather than urgency. She also painted children in the transition camp and Jaffa in the 1950s and 1960s. 1960s-1980s – The period of Studio in Jaffa Schloss painted at a studio in Jaffa from 1962 till 1983. In this time, she turned her interest to people around her more than kibbutz – the children, mothers, and poor workers, the alleys and houses. She opened the space to the street and its dwellings, built interactions around it, and was nurtured by the presence of the outside in her work. 1960s Schloss familiarized to an Arab woman, Nabava, lived in poor. Schloss returned to painting images of old people later, and she called her painting figurative elderly people in the old age homes “waiting”. In the late 1960s, Ruth discovered acrylic paint and never turn back to oil painting. In 1965 Schloss devoted a series “Area 9 (1965)”, dedicated to the demolition of Israeli-Arab houses and the expropriation of the land, and carried a definite socio-political messages. The series was exhibited at Beit Zvi, Ramat Gan, in 1966. She was the only artist who addressed the result of the Six-Day War immediately afterward. In 1968, Schloss and Gansser-Markus presented “Drawing of War” in Zurich gallery. She expressed the war as an ultimate expression of destruction and ruin, regardless of victors and vanquished. 1970s In late 1970s Schloss began printing the selected photograph directly on the canvas, posterior reworking it in acrylic. She decided to print her work at Har-El Printers in Jaffa, and these became the surface of her painting. This technique was mainly adopted in two large series: Anne Frank (1979-1980) and Borders (1982). Through this technique she placed the figure of elder Frank next to that of the famous young Frank, and released it at the exhibition at Bet Ariela Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, in 1981. The series touched upon the Nazi Holocaust. 1980s The Lebanon War raised the question of “The Good Fence” and the effect of the war. She dedicated a large series Boarders, one of the most powerful image linked to the series is the figure of Yemenite woman raising her hand. She was the first to raise the Black Panthers demonstration to the level of a social icon. In the 1980s and again in 2000, the Intifada uprisings also led Schloss to the easel to render a good number of representational and symbolic works that in their way denounced Israel's political and military actions. 1990s – 2000s Ruth Schloss never had an exhibition in a major Israeli museum. Her works were presented in private galleries and small museums. The main museums, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum, included her works only in group exhibitions, and only in 1991 was her retrospective exhibited at the Herzliya Museum. In the 2000s, Schloss’s metaphors turned into animal kingdom and Bedouins in the south. A huge rhinoceros, birds of prey, and other "bad animals," as Cohen Evron, daughter of Ruth, calls them and "I connected this to the Nazis," said Schloss. Schloss' work after she didn't find human expression able to transmit the endless cruelty she saw in Israel's political mentality. Schloss also continued to follow and collect documentary photographs of destructions of houses from the war, the Intifada, the sequence of her work about ruin from 1949 to 2005, was a cumulative testimony about the painful history of Israel and Palestine. In 2006, a large retrospective exhibition of her work was presented at the Museum of Art in Ein Harod, curated by Tali Tamir. Education 1938-41 Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem, with Mordecai Ardon 1946 painting course for Kibbutz Artzi artists with Yohanan Simon and Marcel Janco 1949-51 Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris Awards and recognition 1965 Silver Medal, International exhibition in Leipzig, Germany 1977 Artist-in-Residence, The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris Selected solo exhibitions 2004 “Micha...

Portrait of mother and daughter - Oil on canvas by Angelo Granati, Italy 2011.

Give Me A Smile Close your eyes, Don't say a word; Give me a smile, And stay and weave me your part of tenderness, Give me a little smile while I lie by your side; And give me you...

Woman with Basket & Fruit 2009 – original by Christiaen van Couwenbergh (1604 – 1667) Finely painted oil on canvas copy of the original Dutch Golde...

This stunning French Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted exhibited female artist Jeanne Rongier. This delicately detailed portrait is of the head and shoulders of a beautiful young woman, gazing to her right. Painted from a low vantage point looking up, the background is a superb canopy of illuminated green and yellow leaves with the light shining through them and all around her. Her dark glossy hair against the light drenched leaves is beautiful in a very Victorian Pre Raphaelite tone. A thoroughly charming portrait oil painting by a noted French Victorian female artist depicting a female sitter...

Girl with a pigeon. Symbol of peace

Native American "Portrait of a Jolly Man" Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan) Oil on cardboard, signed 5 7/8 x 3 3/4 (17 x 15 frame) inches Emin Abbasov ...

"Portrait of The Sage" Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan) Oil on cardboard, signed 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 (16 x 14 1/2 frame) inches Emin Abbasov is classically ...

'Lovers' a mysterious and fascinating portrayal of a women with two heads and singular body draped in an intricately painted multicolored kimono. The scene includes interior architec...

Nina, Oil on Canvas, Painting by Christina Major Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York an...

Painted circa 1930 this Modern British oil portrait of Philip Joubert has superb colouring and detail. Painted by Charles Cundall RA RWS, it came from the artist’s daughter and is framed in an earlier solid Empire frame. This is a fine example of a 20th century Modern British portrait. Philip Jourbet de la Ferte, Air Chief Marshall, was senior commander in the 1930's and World War II. Signed left. Provenance Family descent. James Bourlet and Sons labels verso. Artist’s daughter. Condition. Oil on canvas, image size 24 inches by 20 inches and in fine gallery condition. Housed in a fine Empire 19th century frame 30 by 26 inches, in good condition. Charles Cundall (1890-1971) - painter, potter and stained-glass artist, born in Stratford, Lancashire. After working as a designer for Pilkington's Pottery Company under Gordon Forsyth...

Large Vintage Portrait of a Woman – Oil on Canvas A striking mid-20th-century oil painting depicting a woman in traditional attire, posed confidently against a scenic mountainous bac...

"The Skeptic" is a realist oil on linen painting. It depicts a man with long golden red hair and beard in a coat. His eyes gaze to the side of the viewer, eyebrows furrowed. Frame ...

'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 ...

Beth de Loiselle's , "Schnauzer", is a beautifully detailed realistic dog painting of a loving Schnauzer. Beth de Loiselle's dog/animal paintings always amaze with her fine detail. As an animal portraitist Beth’s keen observations of this Schnauzer capture that particular expression, compassion and familiarity to its breed. Beth was taught the classical old masters style at the esteemed Schuler School of Fine Art. Now viewed as an expert she is an instructor of old master techniques at the school. Beth de Loiselle is a member of The National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society, Oil Painters of America, Audubon Artists and the International Guild of Realism. Signed upper left hand with full name. The painting is framed in a simple gold frame...

Portrait of a man. Oil painting on canvas, signed and located "Roubaix, 1906". In this portrait, all attention is focused on the face, which is intrusively and self-consciously looking ahead. Except for the white collar and pocket handkerchief...

Hans August Lassen (1857–1927) – "Im Atelier des Malers" (1887) Artist: Hans August Lassen Title: Im Atelier des Malers (In the Painter’s Studio) Date: 1887 Medium: Oil on Wood Dimen...

This piece, "Breaking Pointe", is a 24x18 oil painting on canvas by artist Marie Channer. Featured is a ballet dancer silhouetted in the spotlight of the stage, caught in pose. Glow ...