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Oswald Birley

Portrait of a Rancher "Pete"
By Patience Hilda Street
Located in Soquel, CA
Honolulu, Hawaii. Her first husband, S. Patrick Birley, was related to Sir Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley
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1970s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

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Portrait of Mrs. Alex Cowan
By Oswald Birley
Located in London, GB
Sir Oswald BIRLEY (1880 - 1952) was one of Britain’s most successful portrait painters. From 1919
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Early 1900s Portrait Paintings

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Oil Painting Portrait of Lord Edward Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just (1870-1941)
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La Demoiselle Maupert, A lady of Quality, in Riding Dress, with Pearl Earrings.
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Portrait of a Man, Attributed to Oswald Birley
By Oswald Birley
Located in Vancouver, BC
Portrait of a young man, oil on canvas attributed to English painter Oswald Birley. This painting
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Vintage 1910s English Paintings

Portrait of a Man, Attributed to Oswald Birley
Located in Vancouver, BC
Portrait of a young man, oil on canvas attributed to English painter Oswald Birley. This painting
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1910s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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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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