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C Adrian Paintings

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Mid 20th C Portrait Seated Lady in Turquoise, Green & Blue Dress, Oil Painting
By Adrian Gillespie Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Superb large portrait of this seated lady against an armchair. The painting is by the well listed
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Mid-20th Century Aesthetic Movement Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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C Adrian Paintings For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of c adrian paintings available on 1stDibs. Finding the ideal Abstract, Photorealist or Modern examples of these works for your living room, whether you’re looking for small- or large-size pieces, is no easy task — start by shopping our selection today. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. C adrian paintings available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes black, gray, brown, beige and more. These artworks have been a part of the life’s work for many artists, but the versions made by Adrian Deckbar, Adrian Gottlieb, Adrian Negenborn, Adrian Lockhart and Adrian Smart are consistently popular. Frequently made by artists working in paint, fabric and oil paint, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much are C Adrian Paintings?

Prices for pieces in our collection of c adrian paintings start at $391 and top out at $100,000 with the average selling for $2,389.

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.

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