Intimate reclining woman in blue, modern European figurative interior Oil Canvas
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Intimate reclining woman in blue, modern European figurative interior Artist: Josep Lloveras i Feliu (Spanish, 1922–2014) Title: Reclining woman in blue Medium: Oil on canvas Dimens...
Oil
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H 21.26 in W 25.6 in
female guitarist oil on canvas painting woman portrait
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Josep Lloveras Feliu (1922-2014) - Woman guitarist - Oil on canvas Oil measures 54x65 cm.
Canvas, Oil
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H 23.63 in W 19.3 in
Virgin Mary and child Jesus oil on board painting Christ
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frame measurements 68x57 cm. Josep Lloveras y Feliu, was a painter and sculptor.
Oil, Board
$7,664
H 47.45 in W 39.97 in
Portrait of a Girl 19th century French painting Signed
Located in Pistoia, IT
Louis Gaston Amédée CHARPENTIER-BOSIO (1858-1923) "Portrait of Girl with Fan" Impressive oil on canvas signed upper left and dated 1891. This beautiful large-scale painting depic...
Canvas, Oil
$28,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 60 in W 36 in D 3 in
"Reading in the Study" Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting Woman in Pink Dress
Located in New York, NY
An Early 20th Century elegant portrait oil painting by Gordon Stevenson depicting a pensive young woman seated in a serene, indoor setting wearing a light pink gown with delicate, ru...
Oil, Canvas
Sold|$850
H 15.16 in W 11.62 in D 1.38 in
Framed 19th Century Oil - Young Woman with Red Rosary
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 19th-century portrait depicting a young woman in prayer, her chin resting upon her hands, her gaze directed slightly downwards towards the viewer. She holds a red garnet rosar...
Oil
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.
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