17th Century Lady Portrait
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Oil, Panel
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Mid-17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
Late 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Antique 17th Century French Paintings
Canvas
Antique 17th Century Paintings
Canvas, Paint
Antique 17th Century British Baroque Paintings
Canvas
Antique 17th Century British Georgian Paintings and Screens
Canvas, Linen, Wood
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
Antique Late 17th Century English Georgian Paintings
Paint
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
Early 17th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Oak, Oil
Antique Late 17th Century French Baroque Paintings
Canvas
Antique 17th Century Dutch Baroque Paintings
Paint
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
Early 1700s English School Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Oil
Late 17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Canvas
Antique 17th Century English Paintings
Paint
Antique Late 17th Century English Paintings
Canvas, Giltwood
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
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Finding the Right Portrait-paintings for You
An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.
- 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 23, 2024What 17th-century furniture is called varies. The general term for all furniture produced 100 years ago, including 17th-century pieces, is antique furniture. You may also choose to be more specific and describe a piece by its style. Theatrical and lavish, the Baroque style was prevalent across Europe from the 17th to the mid-18th century and spread around the world through colonialism, including in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Baroque furniture was extravagant in all aspects, from shape to materials. 17th-century pieces from England often feature characteristics of the William and Mary style, such as crisp lines, maple and walnut veneers, inlaid bands and C-scroll ornaments. On 1stDibs, explore a variety of antique furniture.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Sir Isaac Newton invented the reflector telescope in the 17th century. He created it as a replacement for the refracting telescope, which tended to have poor optics. Find a collection of antique and vintage telescopes on 1stDibs from some of the world’s top sellers.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 202217th-century Dutch portraiture has many similarities to other Baroque paintings, including rich colors, dark shadows and intense lighting. Many famous Dutch Baroque works lean toward realism. In Dutch portraiture, props and detailed backgrounds are uncommon. You'll find a collection of Dutch Baroque paintings from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022British artist John Singer Sargent was one of the most important portrait painters of the 19th century. Other notable portraitists from the period include James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassat, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of portrait paintings.
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