Summer Portrait Paintings

This bright summer beach painting holds a surprise if you look closely. What seems like a young couple just spending a day at the shore together, actually tells a story. The young wo...

In this painting, we see a minimalist room with a huge window, beyond which stretches a sky filled with fluffy white clouds. Muted colors dominate—the blue of the sky contrasts beaut...

At first glance, simple, banal things are visible but something is clearly strange here, what is going on here? And where did a piece of cake disappear? keywords; surrealism, food, ...

Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “The Second Sighting” (2024) is an oil painting on panel that depicts a surreal landscape that has a wolf with piercing eyes standing in the moonlight. A...

Amy Devlin portrays people, animals, or nature in her works. But what really matters to her is light and water, which she wants to capture in the form of a physical memory. By following her passion for paint, she tries to represent reality and thereby express her feeling in the expressive colors she uses. Her paintings show a fascination with the movement and texture of water, which is depicted in vivid colors in her works. Her hybrid painting style combines realism with impressionism in a very interesting way, providing a different view of the world and our memories of it. Devlin loves the unexpected, looks at things from a crazy angle and imagines. Since 2014 she mainly paints underwater portraits...

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Mid-century fauvist portrait of a girl with colorful, textured impasto by Mary Sheppard (American, 20th Century), 1956. Signed and dated "Mary Sheppard '56" lower right. Unframed. Im...

Canvas measures 61x50 cm. Frameless He was born in 1951. Under the direction of the master Pedro Bermejo, he began his artistic career, quickly highlighting and observing in his works an unusual mastery of drawing. A very mature painter who has known how to stop time in all his works. His themes are preferably costumbristas although in his work the usual thing is to see eight century themes, with horse carriages, hats, umbrellas and still lifes. Observing his work reminds us, by the subject, of Maestro...

The young male subject in Richard Gibbons' work simply entitled "Youth", is that of a curious young man with his head tilted. Dressed in clothing similar ...

Midcentury impasto landscape of Sierra Mountains with stream in foregrounds snow-covered mountains in background. Signed "Lorie '65". Clown is painted on verso. Presented in carved a...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Acrylic on canvas on cardboard. Work measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter...

ARTIST: John Dalzell Kenworthy ARCA (1958-1954) British TITLE: "The Head Gardener" SIGNED: lower right corner MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 52cm x 41cm inc frame DETAIL: A most interesting unuusal and characterful mid Century portrait of a man mowing the lawn. The painting initialled lower right for Kenwrothy. John Dalzell Kenworthy ARCA (5 Nov 1858 - 4 Mar 1954) was an internationally acclaimed artist, sculptor and writer who was born at Whitehaven into a prominent West Cumbrian family. JD Kenworthy was a noted Cumberland artist, who lived at Seacroft House, St Bees, a coastal village south of Whitehaven. He painted both portraits and landscapes, in oil and watercolour in the 50 years centred on the turn of the twentieth century. He was an associate of the Royal Cambrian Academy (1914) and he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, as well as at galleries across Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool. He travelled to paint in Scotland and France, where he became particularly well known. He also was a keen angler, and wrote a book in 1933 called 'Fisherman's Philosophy', in which he discusses Scottish salmon and loch trout, and fishing on the French Mediterranean coast. Kenworthy's works are held in the public collections of the Beacon Museum and Helena Thompson Museum. JD Kenworthy's portraits include two of 1st World War veterans, AJ Wandless a Master Mariner and Whitehaven war hero Abraham Acton. He also painted portraits of other notable people, including the Mayor of Whitehaven, Reverend Rees Keene, Dr James Irving Lace,[6] Justices of the Peace James Gibson Dees and Alderman Joseph Braithwaite and one of the aero chocolate...