Photography Portrait Paintings

William Clarke Wontner 1857-1930 British Portrait of a Beauty Signed and dated "W. Wontner 1918" (lower left) Oil on canvas Classical beauty a...

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...

"Astral" Hyperrealism Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube. A look through Dmitriy’...

José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas Oil measures 100x80 cm. Frameless. Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor José Padilla, a Sp...

This contemporary figurative oil painting explores themes of politics and culture. Deborah Root’s dynamic, colourful compositions tell an intimate story about her experience during ...

Renowned for his mastery in design and sculpture, Tena embarked on a profound personal journey in 2023, which rekindled his passion for painting after a 30-year hiatus. His return to...

Italian School, 18th century Depicted are the Madonna and Child Jesus, the virgin Mary is holding the Child Jesus lovingly in her arms. The child, lying on a bundle of cloth and with...

Evocative, contemporary portrait of a woman wearing a hat by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Washes of thin, gold-colored paint, which we bel...

Saint Anthony Of Padua, 17th Century Circle of CARLO DOLCI (1616-1686) 17th century Italian Old Master depiction of Saint Anthony of Padua, oi...

The Self Portrait 19th Century French School signed oil on board, unframed board: 8.25 x 6.75 inches Provenance: private collection Condit...

Artists are often isolated, but long for an idealized golden era, “La Boheme”. Frequently an artist's closest encounter with “La Boheme” is nothing more than drinking at a bar...

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Born in 1993 in...

JAMES WOLANIN "The Round" Acrylic & Gloss Varnish on Panel 36 x 36 inches ______________________ James Wolanin’s paintings transport the viewer to an effervescent, candy coated wor...

"The Bohemian" is part of a new collection titled "Ode to Guardians and the Impuissant". It is a visual discourse on the frail but resilient nature of black women whom I call black h...

olio su tela, 62 x 51 cm (senza cornice) Il dipinto è stato per lungo attribuito alla mano di Francesco Gessi, allievo di Guido Reni, come riporta un'iscrizione a matita datata 1945...

André Gill (1840 - 1885) Portrait of Daubray (1837 - 1892) Oil on panel 55 x 37 cm (74 x 55 cm with frame) Signed top right. Michel René Thibaut, known as Daubray, was a leading Fre...

A striking portrait of a woman wearing a pink shirt, large hoop earrings, and a flamboyant hat. Presented in a dark-blue painted wooden frame. There is another painting to the revers...

Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting. Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks of color come together to form ...

Tanvi Pathare Within Contemporary Florence Portrait painting 105 x 115 cm oil on linen (frame included in price) size with frame: 110 x 120 cm Tanvi Pathare from India attended the...

Contemporary mauve-toned circular portrait in acrylic on wood exploring queer migration, self-reclamation, and identity through figurative painting and handwritten text. Currency #2...

Vincente Romero Mademoiselle, 2022 Oil painting on canvas Image Size: 39 x 25 inches Frame Dimensions: 50 x 36 inches Custom framed to museum standards

Portrait of a Lady with carnations By Jean Ranc (Montpellier 1674 - Madrid 1735), circa 1700 Oil on canvas in oval shape, Dimensions: h. 35.82, w. 28.34 in. Period Louis XIV giltwood and carved frame with laurel leaves. Framed dimensions: h. 42.52 in, w. 33.85 in. Provenance: Collection of the Marquis de Bailleul at the Château d'Angerville-Bailleul (before 1942). To be included in the catalog raisonné of the artist by Stephane Perreau Important portrait of a young woman depicted half-length turned three-quarters, her face looking at the viewer. Dressed in a brick red velvet dress, an elegant blue scarf envelops her figure. Hair styled “a la Fontange”, her powdered hair is raised and tied at the back with a red ribbon, several curly locks escape from her bun and fall on her back and shoulders. The perfectly oval face with regular features dominated by her straight nose is softened by her gray eyes with slightly lowered lids. The red tinged skin tones on the cheeks and cheekbones color the face and make the portrait come alive. The young woman is portrayed standing near a pot of carnations. Her strongly lighted figure stands out against an architectural background of columns. The artist's palette is made of contrasts opposing warm to cold hues. The icy electric blue contrasts with the fiery brick red, the hair powdered with white accentuates even more the flush of the cheeks. The left arm bent at the elbow, extending the open hand with slightly bent fingers in the foreground brings depth to the composition. Our portrait, an interesting testimony in the corpus of works of the painter, is part of his youthful period, around 1700-1705. The former belonging of this portrait to the Marquis de Bailleul reinforces the remarkable character of our painting. The portrait has been examined by Stéphane Perreau, specialist of Jean Ranc and will be included in the catalog raisonné currently being written, under number P. 43. The notice edited by Mr Perreau is below: "Painted around 1700-1705, this portrait of a woman is directly inherited from Hyacinthe Rigaud, the master of Jean Ranc (the hand turned over the front, in a watch...

If Vogue magazine existed in the late 19th century, this sitter could be on the cover. The depth of her feminine beauty and sweetness is mesmerizing. She looks at you. You look ...

This contemporary figurative oil painting explores themes of politics and culture. Deborah Root’s dynamic colourful compositions tell an intimate story about her experience during s...

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1750-1811) was an English portrait painter and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Justly celebrated in his lifetime he won several...

Bret Reilly’s “Crumpled” series seamlessly intertwines the ethereal essence of Impressionism with the dreamlike distortion of surrealism, blurring the line between canvas and sculpt...

A wonderful portrait of a young boy seated in his room looking out over the expansive landscape. Painted circa 1840 this piece has all the style of middle European art. French, Swis...

This romantic portrait of a young woman is by Canadian artist Mel Davis. The Canadian artist has developed a unique visual style that is reminiscent of the French masters of the last...

Kelly Birkenruth’s "Jules" (2024) is a masterfully executed oil painting on panel, measuring 12 x 8 inches (framed dimensions: 13.5 x 9.5 inches). This contemporary figurative work c...

Francesco Brunery (1849–1926) Portrait at the Artist's Workshop Oil on wood panel Old frame gilded with leaves Dim panel : 30 X 24 cm Dim frame : 54 X 46 cm Francesco Brunery (1849...

J. Foley (British, 20th Century) Siamese Cat Oil on canvas Signed on the reverse This elegant portrait captures the distinctive grace and poise of the Siamese cat, renowned for its ...

Benoît Blanc (1812-1888), was a painter born in Marseille who was a pupil of Horace Vernet and signed as 'Benoni' upon his return from Italy in 1832. He w...

A Ballynakill Woman. c. 1926. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25. Housed in an elegant gold leaf frame. Signed 'Brockhurst' in green paint, in the blanket, lower right. Provenance: Provenance...

Important Victorian painting depicting Alexander Smith. It has a fantastic frame and is in excellent condition. Written Alex Smith (...) on the letter.

Once I lived in a private house. We had four cats, and then we accidentally found the fifth. Where he came from and how long he lived with us is unknown). For texture on the primed c...

English School, (circa 1600) Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke Oil on panel, oval Image size: 29¼ x 23⅞ inches Painted wooden frame Provenance: 176, Collection of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick. The Trustees of the Lord Brooks’ Settlement, (removed from Warwick Castle). Sotheby’s, London, 22nd March 1968, lot 81. Painted onto wooden panel, this portrait shows a dark haired gentleman in profile sporting an open white shirt. On top of this garments is a richly detailed black cloak, decorated with gold thread and lined with a sumptuous crimson lining. With the red silk inside it’s all very expensive and would fall under sumptuary laws – so this is a nobleman of high degree. It’s melancholic air conforms to the contemporary popularity of this very human condition, evident in fashionable poetry and music of the period. In comparison to our own modern prejudices, melancholy was associated with creativity in this period. This portrait appeared in the earliest described list of pictures of Warwick castle dating to 1762. Compiled by collector and antiquary Sir William Musgrave ‘taken from the information of Lord & Lady Warwick’ (Add. MSS, 5726 fol. 3) is described; ‘8. Earl of Essex – an original by Zuccharo – seen in profile with black hair. Holding a black robe across his breast with his right hand.’ As tempting as it is to imagine that this is a portrait of Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl Essex, we might take this with a pinch of salt. Its identification with this romantic and fatal Elizabethan might well have been an attempt to add romance to Warwick Castle’s walls. It doesn’t correspond all that well with Essex’s portraits around 1600 after his return from Cadiz. Notably, this picture was presumably hung not too far away from the castle’s two portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. The first, and undoubtedly the best, being the exquisite coronation portrait that was sold by Lord Brooke in the late 1970s and now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. The second, described as being ‘a copy from the original at Ld Hydes’, has yet to resurface. The portrait eventually ended up being hung in the State Bedroom of Warwick Castle. Archival documents present one other interesting candidate. The Greville family’s earliest inventory of paintings, made in 1630 at their home Brooke House in Holborn, London, describes five portraits of identified figures. All five belonged to the courtier, politician and poet Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628), 1st Baron Brooke, and were hung in the ‘Gallerie’ of Brooke House behind yellow curtains. One of them was described as being of ‘Lord of Pembrooke’, which is likely to have been William Herbert (1580-1630), 3rd Earl of Pembroke. William was the eldest son of Greville’s best friend’s sister Mary Sidney, and was brought up in the particularly literary and poetically orientated household which his mother had supported. Notably, the 3rd Earl was one of the figures that Shakespeare’s first folio was dedicated to in 1623. The melancholic air to the portrait corresponds to William’s own pretensions as a learned and poetic figure. The richness of the robe in the painting, sporting golden thread and a spotted black fabric, is indicative of wealth beyond that of a simple poet or actor. The portrait’s dating to around the year 1600 might have coincided with William’s father death and his own rise to the Pembroke Earldom. This period of his life too was imbued with personal sadness, as an illicit affair with a Mary Fitton had resulted in a pregnancy and eventual banishment by Elizabeth I to Wilton after a short spell in Fleet Prison. His illegitimate son died shortly after being born. Despite being a close follower of the Earl of Essex, William had side-stepped supporting Devereux in the fatal uprising against the Queen and eventually regained favour at the court of the next monarch James I. His linen shirt is edged with a delicate border of lace and his black cloak is lined on the inside with sumptuous scarlet and richly decorated on the outside with gold braid and a pattern of embroidered black spots. Despite the richness of his clothes, William Herbert has been presented in a dishevelled state of semi-undress, his shirt unlaced far down his chest with the ties lying limply over his hand, indicating that he is in a state of distracted detachment. It has been suggested that the fashion for melancholy was rooted in an increase in self-consciousness and introspective reflection during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In contemporary literature melancholy was said to be caused by a plenitude of the melancholy humor, one of the four vital humors, which were thought to regulate the functions of the body. An abundance of the melancholia humor was associated with a heightened creativity and intellectual ability and hence melancholy was linked to the notion of genius, as reflected in the work of the Oxford scholar Robert Burton, who in his work ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’, described the Malcontent as ‘of all others [the]… most witty, [who] causeth many times divine ravishment, and a kind of enthusiamus… which stirreth them up to be excellent Philosophers, Poets and Prophets.’ (R. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, London, 1621 in R. Strong, ‘Elizabethan Malady: Melancholy in Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraits’, Apollo, LXXIX, 1964). Melancholy was viewed as a highly fashionable affliction under Elizabeth I, and her successor James I, and a dejected demeanour was adopted by wealthy young men, often presenting themselves as scholars or despondent lovers, as reflected in the portraiture and literature from this period. Although the sitter in this portrait is, as yet, unidentified, it seems probable that he was a nobleman with literary or artistic ambitions, following in the same vain as such famous figures as the aristocratic poet and dramatist, Edward de Vere...

The Fragrance Of The Rose, 19th century by Jean Francois Portaels, (1818-1895) Large 19th Century French portrait of lady in Tangiers provinci...

Given Vincent Van Gogh’s mental state when he painted his September 1889 self-portrait, possibly his last, it would be risky business by another artist to produce his own self-portra...

Portrait of a Girl, 19th Century by William M. HAY (1820-c.1900) sales to $20,000 Fine Large 19th Century English portrait of a girl wearing blue ribbons holding a bouquet of roses, oil on canvas by William Hay...

Emilio Magistretti (Milan 1851 - Milan 1936) - Girl with tiger. 67 x 56 cm without frame, 83 x 72 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a contemporary carved and lacque...

George Catlin was a 19th-century American artist, explorer, and advocate for Native American culture whose legacy is deeply intertwined with his iconic portraits and depictions of Native American tribes. A defining aspect of Catlin's work is his commitment to authenticity and respect for his subjects. He strove to capture not only their physical appearances but also their spiritual essence and cultural practices. His portraits are characterized by a keen attention to detail and a sensitivity to the individuality of each subject, reflecting his deep admiration for Native American traditions and values. This painting however, went beyond his skill for painting Native American...

Portrait Of Louise Maria Bird (1845-1862), 19th Century English School Large 19th century portrait of Louise Maria Bird, oil on canvas. Charming circa 1855 portrait of the girl ar...

A charming portrait of a suave-looking gentleman looking his finest in a black tux. Well presented in a simple gilt-effect frame with linen detail. On board.

French School, Portrait of a Young Lady, perhaps an actress Oval Louis XIV sculpted and gilded frame French Art, Roccoco Art The oval portrait of a young woman measures 61 by 50,5 cm canvas sight size and its 18th century oak carved and gilded frame...

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Africa This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gall...

Unicorn Portait by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 19.5 x 15.5 inches canvas size: 14 x 11 inches condition: overall very go...

Portrait Of A Rosalin Isabel, 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite School Large 19th Century portrait of a lady "Rosalin Isabel", oil on canvas tondo. Excellent quality and condition side ...

Oil on canvas, signed lower left Image size: 16 x 15 3/4 inches (40.5 x 40 cm) Original gilt frame Provenance From the estate of the prominent art collector Leon Zielinski This is ...

Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...

JEFF CHESTER (b. 1976, CANADA) Born in Summerside, P.E.I., Jeff Chester completed a B.F.A. and a B.Sc. from the University of Guelph in 2001. After completing a B.Ed. the following ...

The grand ballroom was ablaze with sparkling casting a kaleidoscope of colors across the dance floor. The orchestra's enchanting melody wafted through the air, enticing couples to sw...

French School, Portrait of a Lady, Rococo, 18th Century, Fine drawing in Pastel/ Oil Pastel on Paper in the style of Vivien. The Lady might be a woman from Marie Antoinette's Court. It is part of a Pendant (see the other listing with the portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette...

This is an almost lifesize portrait of a charming blond holding a basket of freshly picked flowers. The girl set against a verdant landscape with blue sky and cumulus clouds. The subject is the friend of the artist's daughter. 78 x 42in. framed. This joyful image of youth looks better in person due to its impressive size and clearly will be a statement piece in any home. Francis Luis Mora ( ( Uruguayan / American, 1874-1940) Studied under Edmund Charles Tarbell...

"The Trip" conveys not only the physical journey of the woman on the scooter but also a metaphorical journey of self-discovery and adventure. The painting evokes a sense of wanderlus...

Michael Carson's (US based) "Resigned" (2024) is an original, handmade oil painting. About the Artist: Mike Carson is a Minneapolis painter, and graduate of the Minneapolis College ...

As an Antique sculpture, Dario Moschetta creates strength and movement in this artwork. Moreover, experimental technique brings an unique texture to the figure. Hair are waving alon...

John Baker’s “The Greatest Possible Success” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 20 inches in greys, silvers and whites. The dramatic verticality of Gotham’s architect...

Tanvi Pathare Luna Contemporary Florence Portrait painting Ø 80 cm oil on linen (frame included in price) size with frame: Ø 100 cm Tanvi Pathare from India attended the Florence A...

Sir George Clausen A BRETON FISHERMAN Later inscribed: "To Trythallen Rowe in Friendship / George Clausen 1892 / 28th Sept" Oil on canvas laid down on board Frame 46cm x 37cm Image ...