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Art Subject: Women
Giovanni Rota, Portrait Of A Girl In A Straw Hat
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine late 19th-century oil painting by Italian artist Giovanni Rota (1832-1900) depicts a cheerful young lady looking back over her shoulder with a straw hat and lilac ribbon.
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Category
1880s Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
South African Girl by Alfred Richard Martin (1871 – 1939) British-South African
Located in Knokke, BE
Alfred Richard Martin
Liverpool 1871 – 1939 Johannesburg
British-South African Painter
'Portrait of a Zulu Girl, KwaZulu-Natal, South-Africa'
Medium:...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Catch, 1920s, French Women Artists, UNUSUAL STORY, Thorwald Helleson
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Helene Marie Margueite Perdriat (French, 1894-1969)
Signed: Helene Perdriat (Lower, Right)
" The Catch ", c. 1920
Oil on Canvas
39 1/2" x 32"
Housed in a 3" Stepped Frame
Over...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of The 3rd Foot Grenadier Regiment, Napoleon's Imperial Guard
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Soldier & Officer Of The 3rd Foot Grenadier Regiment, Napoleon's Imperial Guard, circa 1810
Rare French School Napoleonic Wars Era
Large...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Iris" Surrealistc Beautiful Woman´s Body emerging from a flower. Large format.
By Lluis Rizzo Rey
Located in Segovia, ES
"Iris" oil on panel, mixed technique by Lluis Rizzo.
Hyperrealist painting.
Measurements: (H) 114 x (W) 146 cm.
Framed: (H) 144 x (W) 176 x (D) 5 cm.
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Here we have a rare species of Iris that will not be found in botanical books but in art catalogs...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Color Pencil, Wood Panel
Lluis Rizzo Rey"Iris" Surrealistc Beautiful Woman´s Body emerging from a flower. Large format., 2008
$40,232 Sale Price
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Suzanna and the Elders
By Ben Shahn
Located in Miami, FL
A modern interpretation of the biblical story Suzanna and the Elders.
Signed lower right
Ink and wash on paper
The Downtown Gallery
Felix Landau Gallery
Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
The Matador’s Wife
Located in Spokane, WA
Measures
Painting 7.5 x 5.0625 inches
Framed 13.5 x 11.5 inches
In the manner of José Garcia Ramos (1852 - 1912) This is a beautifully framed 19th century Spanish School oil painti...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Oil - Child in Profile
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed in to the lower left. Presented in a part gilt decorative frame. On oil.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$327 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, "Young woman with flower basket"
Located in Berlin, DE
Painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, "Young woman with flower basket"
Signed, F.Bach.
Dimensions with frame 52cm x 72.5cm
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,310 Sale Price
20% Off
Maria, Nude on Blue Background - Original Oil Painting, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962)
Maria, Nude on Blue Background, c. 1950
Oil on hardboard
Signed lower left
On hardboard, 55 x 46 cm (c. 22 x 18 in)
Presented in a 74 x 64 cm (c. 3...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Grandmother and Grandson titled "Peeling Apples"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
John George Brown (1831–1913) was a prominent British-born American painter, renowned for his genre paintings that vividly depict the everyday life of chi...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beauty In African 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
A woman's polite devotion is her greatest beauty.
Painting
Charcoal, Acrylic on canvas
Size: 18W x 24H Inches
Unmounted artwork
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Girl
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Pavlo Marinets "Girl"
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
17th Century by Giovanni Stefano Danedi Madonna and Child Crowned by Angels
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Giovanni Stefano Danedi, called Montalto (Treviglio, Italy, 1612 - Milan, Italy, 1690)
Title: Madonna and Child crowned by angels
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: without frame 58 x ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
FUTURE LOVE - original large painting by Paula Craioveanu 31x39in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Future Love", acrylic on canvas, 31x39in, 80x100cm
Large original, one-of-a-kind, painting. Shipped rolled in a tube. Free shipping for items over $500 with 1stDibs code FREESHIP
T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Arike
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Arike," an artwork crafted by Alabi Azeez, is a mesmerizing portrayal of femininity, strength, and resilience. The title itself, which translates to "someone to cherish" in the Yoru...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$2,600 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Miniature Painting of Five Sisters by Vincenzo Castelli. Signed. I
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Miniature Painting of Five Sisters by Vincenzo Castelli. Signed.
Italian - 1789-1845
2.75 x 2.25 x 5.25
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Portrait of the Artist's Wife by Herman Hyneman
Located in New York, NY
Herman Hyneman (1849-1907)
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, c. late 19th century
Oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.
Framed: 27 1/2 x 35 1/4 in.
The following is from Peter Jung who credits "a friend named Jeff Gold on Long Island."
Herman N. Hyneman (1849 - 1907) was born in 1849 to one of the most prominent Jewish families in Philadelphia. Unlike most Jewish families of the time, his embraced and encouraged his artistic talent. In 1874, Hyneman followed his first cousin Moses Ezekiel, National Academy member, to Europe to study. They first went to Germany and then to France where Hyneman began eight years of study with Leon Bonnat, the French Master.
In Paris, the twenty-five year old Hyneman resided in a studio building at 75 Boulevard Clichy, with expatriates Frederic Arthur Bridgeman, Charles Sprague Pearce, Milne Ramsey, and Edwin Blashfield. Hyneman was clearly exposed to the works of these more experienced artists, as well as that of Walter Gay.
In 1879, one of Hyneman's genre paintings, entitled "Desdemona", was accepted into the Paris Salon. That painting received favorable reviews both in Europe, and later in Philadlephia where it was exhibited alongside the works of other Philadelphia Artists exhibiting at the Salon that included Thomas Eakins, Pearce, Edward May...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Who Deserves My Flower Most -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Modern Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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 (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Four Faces, Contemporary Surreal Figurative Abstract on Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary surreal figurative oil painting featuring the faces of four men floating in the lower register of a black space Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsign...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
$1,080 Sale Price
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The smokers. Figurative painting. Colorful landscape with figures smoking.
By Igor Fomin
Located in Segovia, ES
The smokers. Figurative painting. Colorful Landscape with figures.
Acrylic on canvas.
Measurements in centimeters: 89 x 146 x 3 cm. / Framed: 114 x 171 x 5 cm.
In inches: 35.04 x 57.48 x 1.18 ". / Framed: 44.88 x 67.32 x 1.9 "
In the background, a beautiful city with classical buildings and a a forest; in the foreground, a small park where smokers gather next to the fountain crowned by a cupid holding a cigarette between his fingers. It is a group of six men and three women. They all smoke. They enjoy the smoke as they blow it out of their mouths, making shapes with it and interacting with each other in various poses.
Hands emerge from the trees of the nearby forest holding lighted matches between their fingers as a lure to attract smokers to the darkness of the forest. A very dreamlike image to represent the temptation of the forbidden.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fomin is a storytelling artist. He is a storyteller in his everyday, anecdotally narrating the funny side of life, and he is a storyteller in his professional life, bringing to the canvas realistic popular scenes set in fairy-tale settings where the subject matter is always treated with irony and humor.
The titles of his paintings tell us about eccentric characters of an era, a culture, a society (which one?) - it doesn't matter, it is a distorted reality with a romantic and sentimental touch, which takes us to references such as Brueghel the Elder, El Bosco and Chagall, within an aesthetic and chromatism typical of Renaissance painting where Fomin develops his original scenes playing with the design of spaces, landscapes, buildings, characters and costumes. A stage director who makes us smile, but also reflect on his original interpretation of the human being, because this is the main protagonist of his paintings.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Igor Fomin...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$15,230 Sale Price
20% Off
"The Lonely Family: Jake" Contemporary Outsider Art Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Featured in "Kevin Gilmore: Lonely Family Reunion" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX.
In "Lonely Family Reunion", local Houston artist Kevin Gilmore embarks on a poignant explo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
19th Century Oil on Canvas German Noblewoman Portrait Painting, 1880
Located in Vicoforte, IT
German painting from late 19th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a copy of a famous painting by Veronese, portrait of a young noblewoman of good pictorial quality. Modern fr...
Category
1880s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 18th Century English Family Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
English family portrait from the late 18th century. The canvas is aged accordingly with newsprint from October 1847. The painting is framed in a decorative gold frame with an open ba...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Signed Contemporary Surreal Conceptual Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Interesting and well executed contemporary portrait painting by Anna Heigh. Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Unframed.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait PS251 Beauty and the Beast Dachshund Chut Les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
PS 251 Beauty and the Beast
The painting features a young woman with striking, vivid features and deep blue hair, holding a small black and tan dachshund. The background is composed...
Category
1830s Tonalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Retro Pop Portrait of Women in Acrylic on Panel_Ciao Bella by James Wolanin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
JAMES WOLANIN
"Ciao Bella
Acrylic & Gloss Varnish on Panel
48 x 48 inches
______________________
James Wolanin’s paintings transport the viewer to an effervescent, candy coated wor...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Panel
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Wicked Witch of the East
Located in Burlingame, CA
'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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
1960's French Portrait Auburn Haired Sulking Women in Swimsuit
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Character Portrait
French school, Mid 20th Century
Gouache paint on unframed paper
Inscribed verso
stamped to the reverse
Image : 25.5 x 19.5 inches
Superbly decorative 196...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Girl with notes
Located in Edinburgh, GB
"Music is a wonderful way to erase thoughts, bad and not so good, the best and the most ancient."
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl in blue
Located in Riga, LV
Girl in blue
oil/cardboard, 80x44 cm
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
The Old Jewish Scholar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous little gem oil painting. Looks to be a Rabbi or Jewish scholar. It is signed, could be March? not sure. The professional frame measures 14 inches high by 12 1/4 wide and has silk matting...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Docteur Eddy et ses Intimates
By Louis Joseph Anthonissen
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by Belgian artist Louis Joseph Anthonissen depicting a doctor and his family in a garden setting. This painting comes housed in its original grand...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,975 Sale Price
31% Off
Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822-1902) A Portrait of a Mother and Child
Located in Queens, NY
Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822-1902) A Portrait of a Mother and Child
19th Century.
Oil on canvas, signed
Lilly Martin Spencer was one of the most popular and American female genre painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She primarily painted domestic scenes, paintings of women and children...
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Gray Kimono
Located in New York, NY
The Gray Kimono, 1901, by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches unframed (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
28 x 24 1/16 inches framed (71.12 x 61.11875 cm)
Paper (Alice Wil...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of John Manners later 7th Duke of Rutland
By Margaret Sarah Carpenter
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1793-1872, was an English portrait painter. She was one of the foremost portrait painters in the 19th Century, she exhibited at the Royal Academy, British In...
Category
1830s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Desert Break" - Contemporary Realist Female Portrait Oil Painting, 2025
Located in Denver, CO
Serge Marshennikov’s "Desert Break" (2025) is a striking oil painting on linen that exemplifies his signature mastery of light, texture, and form. M...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl on Bed, Modern Oil Painting by Raphael Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer, American (1899 - 1987)
Title: Seated Woman
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 29 x 25.5 inches
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Elizabeth Reading
Located in Houston, TX
Francois Gall (1912-1987)
Well listed post-impressionist artist Gall was the recipient of the "Medaille D'Ore" at the Paris Salon of 1947.
“Elizabeth Reading”, c. 1960s
Oil on c...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,750
UNTITLED
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on handmade paper. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Artwork size 19 x 12.25 inches. Frame size approx 30 x 26 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Handmade Paper
$700 Sale Price
30% Off
Head in the Clouds, Oil Painting
By Mary Pratt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A graceful and ethereal figure stands with her back to the viewer. Centered in the composition, the woman is clad in a voluminous, soft lavender-white gown that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century By Dalla Rosa Portrait of Angela Guggerotti Fracastoro Oil/Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Saverio Dalla Rosa (Verona, Italy, 1745 - 1821)
Title: Portrait of Angela Guggerotti Fracastoro
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 94 x 73 cm - with frame 105 x 94 cm
Fr...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Oil Painting Portrait of a Muse
Located in London, GB
John Opie RA (1761-1807, English)
c. 1802
Oil on canvas
Canvas dimensions 36 x 32 inches
Framed dimensions 46.5 x 43.25 inches
Original gilded period frame.
John Opie was a Corni...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Carpenter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pigment on mica
Paintings on mica originating in India were produced in standard sets for the colonial tourist market. They imitated paintings on glass, which were popular in Europe...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint
Esosa
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.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Porto Bleu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Alec Wiles (1924-2021) - 1998 Watercolour, The Engagement Ring
Located in Corsham, GB
This striking portrait depicts a lady with short cropped hair posing with her arms crossed. Her right hand rests gently on her forearm in a position ideal for showing her sparkling e...
Category
1990s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Kate Moss Icon VIII /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Portrait Fashion Model UK
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Kate Moss Icon VIII"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2023
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Canvas size: 36" x 36"
Condition: The stretched canvas was custom built by the artist himself. In mint condition
Notes:
Katherine Ann Moss (1974-) is an English model and businesswoman. Born in Croydon, Greater London, she was recruited as a model in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Management. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Diminutive Mid Century Expressionist Clown Portrait #1
Located in Soquel, CA
Small portrait of a clown with colorful, expressionist brushstrokes by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the lower right corner...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sedes Sapientiae – Cubist Portrait with Symbolic Depth, by Gregoire Mathias
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Sedes Sapientiae
41 x 33 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Sedes Sapientiae by Grégoire Mathias is a striking cubist composition that deconstructs the human face into a network of angular planes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid Century Portrait of Artist Doris Rohr of Carmel
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century portrait of Carmel artist Doris Estelle Rohr by listed California artist Abel George (Buck) Warshawsky (American, 1883-1962). Signed "A.G. Warshawsky Dec. 22 52...
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$3,575 Sale Price
35% Off
Portrait Of Isabella Blackett, Countess Of Buchan, 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Isabella Blackett, Countess Of Buchan, 18th Century
English School
Large 18th Century English portrait of Lady Isabella Blackett, Duchess of Buchan oil on canvas. Excel...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in New York, NY
Distinguished portrait of King George III's daughter Sophia (1777-1848). Within a fine period frame possibly original. She wears a strand of coral beads around her neck and coiled around her wrist - a late 18th and early 19th century fashion.
The painting has an important provenance: it was in the collection of Baron Nathaniel Meyer von...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Beautiful and Brave Gaze" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "A Beautiful and Brave Gaze" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts an Indian woman with a lit flame creating a beautiful orange glow around her.
Abo...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Behind Every Strong Woman…
Located in Deddington, GB
Behind Every Strong Woman… by Amy Gardner [2020]
limited_edition
Screen Print
Edition number 40
Image size: H:118.9 cm x W:84.1 cm
Sold Unframed
Please n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Screen
"Follow Me" (2020) By Beth Sistrunk, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Beth Sistrunk's "Follow Me" is an oil on panel featuring a model with pink petals.
About the artist:
Beth's interests in painting the figure, women’s fashion, flowers, landscape pho...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Figurative, Portrait, Sunglasses, Pop, Cupcake Couture, Anja Van Herle_Acrylic
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
ANJA VAN HERLE
"Cupcake Couture"
Acrylic with Swarovski Crystals on Wood
42 x 42 inches
Born in Belgium in 1969, Anja Van Herle combines a European sense of high fashion in her art...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
The Raven - Girl In Red Dress with Exposed Breast, Holding Bird, Oil on Canvas
Located in Chicago, IL
The raven is often thought of as a connection between the spiritual and physical world. In this painting, a wise young girl holds a raven in her hands up to her eye as if searching for some great meaning. A clock and a burning candle in the foreground suggests a symbolic connection between the two. The peaceful mountain landscape...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
‘Oriental Girls - Mediants à Tanger’, Jean François Portaels ( 1818 - 1895 )
Located in Knokke, BE
Jean François Portaels
1818 - Brussels - 1895
Belgian Painter
‘Oriental Girls - Mediants à Tanger, Maroc’
Signature: signed lower right ‘J. Portaels’
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 40,5 x 28,5 cm, frame size 67,5 x 56 cm
Biography: Jean François Portaels, also known as Jan Portaels, was a versatile Belgian painter born on April 3, 1818, in Vilvoorde and passed away on February 8, 1895, in Schaerbeek. He was celebrated for his genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits, and Orientalist subjects. As a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Portaels significantly impacted Belgian art, becoming a pivotal figure in the Belgian Orientalist school. His works were known for their 'everyday elegance and feminine grace,' and he played a crucial role in influencing the next generation of Belgian artists, including notable figures like Théo van Rysselberghe.
Portaels was the son of a wealthy brewer who also served as Vilvoorde's mayor. Showing an early passion for drawing, he was sent to the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1836, where he studied under François-Joseph Navez, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. Navez invited him to his studio, which was renowned at the time, allowing Portaels to refine his skills alongside other talented students like Charles de Groux and Joseph Stallaert.
In 1841, Portaels moved to Paris, enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and studying under Paul Delaroche. He became influenced by the emerging Orientalist movement, which was gaining traction in Paris. In 1842, he won the Grand Prix de Rome, which funded his travels across Italy and other regions, including Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Judea, Spain, Hungary, and Norway. These journeys profoundly influenced his artistic vision, particularly his Orientalist works.
Upon his return to Belgium in 1847, Portaels was appointed Director of the academy in Ghent. In 1849, he married Marie Hélène Navez, the daughter of his first teacher. Despite being offered the directorship of the Brussels Academy, he initially declined, opting to preserve his independence. He later accepted a teaching position at the Academy and eventually became its director in 1878, succeeding Eugène Simonis.
Portaels was known for his broad range of artistic talents, including history painting, portraiture, and genre art. He was particularly recognised for his Orientalist depictions, often portraying the 'Oriental woman' with distinctive features like arched eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. His style, marked by charm and elegance, distinguished him from the dominant artistic movements of Classicism and Romanticism.
He was a pioneer in monumental art in Belgium, working with Jean Baptiste van Eycken to introduce fresco techniques like water glass painting...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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