$2,439Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Spanish Old Master Oil on Wood Panel, Head Portrait of Christ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 18/19th Century Spanish School Title :Head study of Christ Medium: oil painting on wood panel, period gilt framed panel : 6 x 5 inches Provenance: private collect...
Oil
Conestabile Madonna Old Master Renaissance
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in London, GB
After Raphael Conestabile Madonna 1483 - 1520 Oil on poplar panel Image size: 8 x 8 inches (20.5 x 20.5 cm) Original ornate hand carved gilt frame Conestabile Madonna Made in compos...
Canvas, Oil
$9,760Sale Price|20% Off
Andromeda Monster Carracci Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Agostino Carracci (1557-1602) Circle of Andromeda and the Sea Monster Oil on canvas 75 x 59 cm. - In frame 96 x 77 cm. The subject of the painting, derived from Ovid's Metamo...
Oil
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Answer Within, Oil on Canvas Painting, Old Masters Style, 21st Century
By Emmanuel Ojebola
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)
Oil, Canvas
$4,989Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait of a Young Lady with Fruit - British Old Master art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This is a charming British Old Master oil painting, housed in a pretty Lely panel ornate gilt frame.
Oil
$3,548Sale Price|20% Off
Fine 18th Century British Old Master Oil The Young Shepherdess with Lamb
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Young Shepherd English School, 18th century circle of Sir Joshua Reynolds oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 30 x 25 inches Provenance: Private collection Condition: very good condi...
Oil
$4,103Sale Price|20% Off
Huge Victorian English Old Master Oil Painting Madonna & Christ Child after Dyck
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna and Christ Child English School, 19th century after the earlier painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck, unsigned oil on canvas, framed in fine elaborate gilt frame. Framed: 49...
Oil, Canvas
$8,036Sale Price|20% Off
Nativity Jesus David Paint 16/17th Century Oil on copper Old master Flemish Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The Nativity of Jesus Flemish school, late 16th/early 17th century Gerard David (Oudewater, c. 1460 - Bruges, 1523) Follower of Oil on copper 30 x 25 cm. - In frame 47 x 42 c...
Oil
$9,980Sale Price|20% Off
The Infant St John the Baptist with Lamb - Italian Old Master art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful 18th century Italian Old Master oil painting is something rather special. Painted circa 1750 the subject matter is Saint John the Baptist as a very young child. He is ...
Oil
$6,929Sale Price|20% Off
17th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Moses Striking Water from the Rock
By Pier (Pietro) Dandini
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Moses Striking Water from the Rock; Circle of Pietro Dandini, Italian 1646-1712 Italian School, late 17th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 32 x 28 inches canvas: 29 x 23.5 inch...
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an Old Bearded Man
By Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to offer a captivating portrait, most likely painted in the late 18th century, attributed to an artist within the circle of Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich. This oil ...
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of Old Woman 1893 by Famous Russian Master Oil Painting on Canvas Frame
Located in Stockholm, SE
Thanks to moderately contrasting colors, the portrait comes to life and shows us the depth of the artist's intention.
Canvas, Wood, Oil
$4,380Sale Price|20% Off
Fine Italian Old Master Oil Painting c. 1700's The Madonna Christ Child St. John
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna, Christ Child and St. John Italian Old Master, circa 1700's period oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas: 28.5 x 24 inches conditon: overall very good for its age, a fe...
Canvas, Oil
Painting 19th century old master rural daily life
By Henri-Joseph Castaing
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CASTAING Henri Joseph (1860-1918) Young girl at the source Oil on canvas signed low left Frame gilded with gold leaves Dim canvas : 100 X 66 cm Dim frame : 121 X 86 cm CASTAING Henr...
Oil
$7,428Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait of Mrs Harborough - British 18th century art portrait lady oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This lovely 18th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of noted portrait artist Enoch Seeman.
Oil
$2,494Sale Price|20% Off
Guardian Angel, 17th century Italian Old Master oil on copper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Guardian Angel Italian School, 17th century Oil painting on copper, framed Framed size: 12 x 10.5 inches Fine quality early Italian Old Master oil on copper panel, dating to the 17t...
Oil
Portrait of a Man, 17th Century Dutch Oil on Panel Portrait
By Cornelis Dusart
Located in London, GB
Circle of Cornelis Dusart Dutch 1660 - 1704 Portrait of a Man Oil on panel Image size: 7¾ x 5¼ inches Giltwood frame Cornelis Dusart Cornelis Dusart (April 24, 1660 – October ...
Oil, Panel
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLMEN - French School -Portrait Italian Oil on Canvas Painting
By Eugenio De Blasi
Located in Napoli, IT
Portrait of a Gentlemen - Oval oil on canvas cm.50x40, Italia, 2006 Eugenio De Blasi The portrait of Eugenio De Blasi is inspired by one of the many portraits painted by Guillam Fra...
Canvas, Oil
The Flagellation of Christ, Old Master, Flemish School, Oil on copper
Located in Knokke, BE
The Flagellation of Christ Old Master Flemish School 17th century Medium: Oil on copper Dimensions: Image size 22 x 17 cm, frame size 39 x 31 cm
Copper
$7,622Sale Price|44% Off
large 18th century portrait gentleman oil on canvas
Located in York, GB
A fine, imposing 18th century portrait of an unknown aristocrat,housed in a gilt frame The artist is also unidentified but certainly a talented hand, in the circle of one of the fin...
Oil
18th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Follower of Enoch Seeman the Younger German, (1694-1744) Portrait of Gilbert Sympkin Oil on canvas Image size: 29.25 inches x 24.5 inches Size including frame: 38 inches x 33.25 in...
Canvas, Oil
17th Century portrait oil painting of a gentleman
By John Riley
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of John Riley British, (1646-1691) Portrait of a Gentleman Oil on canvas Image size: 29 inches x 24 inches Size including frame: 36 inches x 31 inches A fine half-length por...
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Oil Painting Portrait of a Young English Boy
By Gerard Soest
Located in London, GB
Gerard SOEST (1600 - 1681) Portrait of a Young Boy oil on canvas 35.5 x 30.5 inches inc. frame Gerard Soest (circa 1600 – 11 February 1681), also known as Gerald Soest, was a portra...
Oil
$7,762Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait of Young Girl feeding Chickens - British 19th century art oil painting
By William Owen
Located in Hagley, England
This lovely 19th century Old Master portrait oil painting is by noted British artist William Owen.
Oil
French school, circa 1840, Portrait of a Gentleman, oil on wood, signed
Located in Paris, FR
French school, circa 1840, Portrait of a Gentleman, monogrammed D.L. on the lower right oil on wood panel 28.8 x 24,8 In a beautiful antique frame : 48 x 43.5 cm This gentleman’s...
Oil
SPRING PORTRAIT- French School Impressionist - Italian Oil on Canvas Painting
By Jean Philipe Moreno
Located in Napoli, IT
SPRING PORTRAIT - Oil on canvas cm.30x24 by Jean Philipe Moreno, Italy 2002. Frame available on request from our workshop. Moreno’s portrait depicts a young Parisian woman, her face ...
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Oil Painting Portrait of Phillip, 6th Viscount Wenman.
By Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Located in London, GB
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1750-1811) was an English portrait painter and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Justly celebrated in his lifetime he won several...
Oil
$4,990Sale Price|20% Off
19th Century Portrait Of A Young Woman Oil On Canvas
Located in York, GB
Fine 19th Century Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Young Woman in large gilt gesso frame .unsigned. Identity of the sitter as yet unknown. The artist has managed to capture her ethereal b...
Oil
$760Sale Price|20% Off
Old Master Fragment after Pietro Paolo Bonzi Italian Baroque Oil on Panel Portra
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Old Master Fragment after Pietro Paolo Bonzi Italian Baroque Oil on Panel Portrait Artist: Anonymous, after Pietro Paolo Bonzi (1576–1636) Title: Old Master Fragment Study Period: c...
Oil
Virgin and Child: Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas Portrait
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This devotional Virgin and Child painting, created circa 1882, is a thoughtful historicist work rooted in the traditions of the Siena School, whose emphasis on spiritual intimacy, re...
Oil, Wood
$1,330Sale Price|20% Off
Erasmus of Rotterdam Portrait, 19th Century Oil on Wood Panel
By English School
Located in GB
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98 – 1543) was one of the greatest painters of the Northern Renaissance. Born in Augsburg, Germany, he was the son of Hans Holbein the Elder, also a pa...
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Lady, After Sir Peter Lely (1610-1680) Oil Painting
By After Sir Peter Lely
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil Painting After Sir Peter Lely (1610-1680) Portrait of a Lady Housed in a Lely gold Leaf Frame. Peter Lely: In 1647 he became a member of the Painter-Stainers Company and by 16...
Oil
$9,760Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait Battle Horse Van Der Meulen Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Circle of Adam Frans van der Meulen (Brussels 1632 – Paris 1690) Equestrian portrait with battle scene in the background Oil on canvas? 81 x 103 cm.?In frame 105 x 124 cm. ...
Oil Pastel
$8,871Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait of a Lady in White Dress - British 19th century art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This is a charming British Old Master portrait oil painting housed in a stunning frame.
Oil
$3,326Sale Price|20% Off
Fine 18th Century English Portrait of Aristocratic Gentleman Huge Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic English Gentleman circle of Thomas Hudson (British (1701-1779) oil on canvas, framed framed: 53.5 x 45 inches painting: 45 x 40 inches provenance: private...
Oil
17th Century Old Master Baroque Genre Scene Oil on Canvas Street Dice Players
Located in Stockholm, SE
This expressive genre scene, an oil on canvas, presents a magnificent example of Baroque-era painting. The dramatic narrative of the "dice game" subject - where the emotions of an ea...
Canvas, Wood, Oil
$88,714Sale Price|20% Off
Double Portrait Oil Painting Brothers George, 2nd Duke Buckingham & Lord Francis
By (After) Anthony Van Dyck
Located in London, GB
Aftrer Anthony VAN DYCK - maybe Studio (1599, Antwerp – 1641, London) Flemish Double Portrait of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) & Lord Francis Villiers (1629-164...
Oil
$9,980Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait of Major General James Hanson Salmond - British 18thC art oil painting
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British Old Master oil painting is attributed to circle of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Oil
$9,703Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait of Scottish Gentleman with Clay Pipe - 18th century art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This atmospheric 18th century portrait oil painting is attributed to a Scottish artist. Painted circa 1790, The painting is a half length portrait of a seated gentleman. He is wearin...
Oil
$10,548Sale Price|20% Off
19th Century By Comte d'Houdetot Portrait of GiovanniAntonioFilippini Oil/canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Frédéric-Christophe, Comte d'Houdetot (Paris, France, 1778 - 1859) Title: Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Filippini Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 72.50 x 42 cm - with ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,615
PORTRAIT OF UGO FOSCOLO - Antonio Jannone - Italian Oil On Canvas Painting
By ANTONIO JANNONE
Located in Napoli, IT
PORTRAIT OF UGO FOSCOLO - Oil on canvas cm.50x40, Antonio Jannone, Italy, 2002. this beautiful portrait of the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo is the painter's personal reinterpretation of ...
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, Early 18th Century Oil Painting
By Dominicus van der Smissen
Located in London, GB
Dominicus van der Smissen Early 18th Century Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch Oil on canvas Image size: 20½ x 16¼ inches Period gilt frame This is a portrait of Conrad Fried...
Canvas, Oil
Marcel Antoine Verdier (1817-1856) Portrait of a young man, 1835, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Marcel Antoine Verdier (1817-1856) Portrait of a young man, 1835 signed and dated on the right oil on canvas 41.5 x 33.5 cm in a modern frame : 47 x 39 cm The young Marcel Antoine ...
Oil
Self-Portrait
By John Hamilton Mortimer
Located in London, GB
This sensitively handled oil is the earliest recorded self-portrait by John Hamilton Mortimer, executed circa 1758, shortly after Mortimer had entered the studio of Thomas Hudson.
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Bewigged Gentleman, Oil on Canvas, Early 18th Century
By Enoch Seeman
Located in St. Albans, GB
Enoch Seeman Canvas Size: 30 x 25" (76 x 62cm) Outside Frame Size: 37 x 32" (92 x 80cm) 1694-1744 He was born in Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland, around 1694. His father, also Enoch...
Oil
$6,376Sale Price|20% Off
Boy with Guinea Pig - British Victorian animal art male portrait oil painting
By Henry Turner Munns
Located in Hagley, England
This charming British Victorian genre oil painting is by noted exhibited artist Henry Tuner Munns. It was painted in 1865 in realist palette with superb detail in the young boy's fac...
Oil
19th century classical religious oil painting portrait female subject red dark
By Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Caterina d'Alexandria (Saint Catherine of Alexandria)" is a copy oil painting on wood panel, after Italian artist Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli). The painting depicts Saint ...
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,108Sale Price|20% Off
18th Century French Portrait of Mysterious Man Oil on Canvas for restoration
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman French School, 18th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 25 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: the painting is in sound conditi...
Oil
18th Century portrait oil painting of a girl with an orange
By Robert Byng
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Circle of Robert Byng British, (1666-1720) Girl with Orange Oil on canvas Image size: 29 inches x 24 inches Size including frame: 36 inches x 31 inches A half-length portrait of a ...
Canvas, Oil
$6,210Sale Price|20% Off
Portrait of a Lady with Lace Collar - British 19th century art oil painting
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in Hagley, England
This very charming British 19th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Thomas Lawrence.
Oil
French school early 20th century, Portrait of a hunter, oil on canvas signed
Located in Paris, FR
French school early 20th century, Portrait of a hunter signed lower right, the signature has not yet been deciphered oil on canvas 40 x 32.5 Framed : 47 x 39 cm In good condition, ...
Oil
Antique 18th C Oil on Canvas A Polish Russian Nobleman Portrait Rembrandt 1637
By (After) Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Portland, OR
It was common for artists who were being classically trained to replicate famous works by the Old Masters that proceeded them, this is a very good, mid to late 1700s such rendition o...
Oil
$1,884Sale Price|20% Off
Fine Quality 17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil on Wood Panel Trial of Christ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Trial of Christ Dutch Old Master, 17th century oil on panel, unframed panel: 11 x 7.5 inches provenance: private collection, England, Christies auction stencil marks verso condi...
Oil, Wood Panel
$19,021Sale Price|20% Off
18th Century By Dalla Rosa Portrait of Angela Guggerotti Fracastoro Oil/Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Saverio Dalla Rosa (Verona, Italy, 1745 - 1821) Title: Portrait of Angela Guggerotti Fracastoro Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 94 x 73 cm - with frame 105 x 94 cm Fr...
Canvas, Oil
$39,676
18th Century by Frans Van Der Mijn Portrait of a gentlewoman Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Frans Van Der Mijn (Düsseldorf, Germany, 1719 - London, UK, 1783) Title: Portrait of a gentlewoman Year: 1756 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 71.8 × 59.5 x 2 cm Pain...
Canvas, Oil
17th-Century Flemish School, Portrait Of A Gentleman In A Justaucorps, Oil
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine late 17th-century Flemish portrait depicts a distinguished gentleman dressed in the elaborate fashions of the 1670s. He wears a long, collarless coat known as a justaucorps...
Canvas, Oil
$2,051Sale Price|20% Off
18th Century French Orientalist Portrait of Arab Man in Turban, oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Arab Man in Turban French artist, 18th century oil on canvas, framed Framed: 21 x 16.5 inches Canvas : 18.5 x 14 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: ...
Oil, Canvas
French School, 17th Century, 'Portrait of the Marquise de Grugieres', oil canvas
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
French school, 17th Century Portrait of the Marquise de Grugieres Oil on canvas 26.1/4 x 21.5/8 in. (66.7 x 54.8 cm.) In a gilded composite frame, later production (possible early 1...
Canvas, Oil
Mid-18th-Century German School, Portrait Of An Aristocrat In Armour, Oil
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-18th-century half-length German portrait depicts a middle-aged aristocrat wearing armour and a wig. Despite his heavily-clad appearance, it’s likely that this rather noncha...
Oil, Canvas
Portrait Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland c.1690–1695 Oil painting
By Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (1653–1708) c.1690–1695 Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723) Few portraits embody the visual authority and dynastic sy...
Canvas, Oil
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
Find a collection of Old Masters prints, paintings, drawings and watercolors and other art on 1stDibs.
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.