Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Early 20th Century French School Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
1870s Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
18th Century Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
1910s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
1910s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Victorian Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
1910s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
18th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
18th Century British Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Paint
Early 1900s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 1800s Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Victorian Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
18th Century French Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas
Early 19th Century North American Regency Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Wood
Early 1900s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 18th Century Old Masters Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Victorian Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
1910s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
19th Century Victorian Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Maria Louisa AngusOut of Mischief - British Victorian 1891 art interior portrait oil painting , 1891
19th Century Victorian Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
Late 19th Century Academic Antique Portrait Oil Painting
Oil
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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.
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