Oil Painted Portrait
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Laid Paper
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Fabric, Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Pigment
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Oil
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Italian School Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Oil
1940s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings
Oil
1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Metal
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil, Archival Paper
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Mid-19th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Oil
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1910s Realist Portrait Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
1990s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1910s Realist Portrait Paintings
Oil
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Varnish, Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Linen, Oil
1950s Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
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Oil Painted Portrait For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Oil Painted Portrait?
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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