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Item Ships From: Continental US
Pair of Portraits, Captain and Mrs. Evelyn R. Le Marchant
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This charming and distinguished looking couple still survive in the radiance of their youth captured for all time by the Plymouth portraitist W. Andresen. Although we know little about the artist, his skill is evident in the fine quality of these images.
Captain Evelyn R. le Marchant, commander of his Britannic majesty's battleship `Nile', posed for this portrait in Plymouth, England in January 1906. His vessel, one of the earliest battleships to operate without sails, is shown anchored in the background. The following month his lovely wife Edith posed for her portrait. These two fine images show an interesting balance with the man of the sea in his element and his shoreside wife surrounded by her garden.
Both paintings are very well done in watercolor with added body color, pencil, and charcoal. Their condition is outstanding and both are mounted in their original period frames with antique glass.
Sight Size: 41 Inches x 29¾ Inches each.
Each painting signed LR: W. Andresen, Plymouth
Vallejo Gallery features the finest in marine and maritime antiques...
Category
Early 1900s Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Blush - Original Soft Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lebanese American artist Sally K.'s captivating floral portraits are both mesmerizing and empowering. Her pop-realistic paintings are inspired by strong, feminine women, celebrating ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Night Speed Skating, " Mix Media Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Tracey Brandon's (US based) "Night Speed Skating" is an mixed media drawing that depicts a black clad skater racing towards the foreground w...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Carbon Pencil
Portrait of a Woman in Green Dress, Oil on Canvas, 19th Century
Located in Astoria, NY
Spanish School, Portrait of a Woman, Oil on Canvas, 19th century, depicting a woman with wine cup and ewer, unsigned, giltwood frame. Image: 41" H x 33" W; frame: 50" H x 42.5" W.
Category
19th Century Baroque Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Locked, " Oil Painting
By Karen Offutt
Located in Denver, CO
Karen Offutt's "Locked" is an original, handmade painting that depicts a close up view of a feminine face at three quarters view, her brown hair frames her porcelain face.
About th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Woman
By Alphonse Legros
Located in Astoria, NY
Alphonse Legros (French/British, 1837-1911), Portrait of a Woman, Oil on Oval Canvas, 1862, monogrammed "ALG" and dated mid right, oval giltwood frame. Image: 31.5" H x 26" W; frame:...
Category
1860s French School Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Adam Shaw - "Outkast" - Contemporary Hip Hop Portrait Oil Painting 2015
Located in Denver, CO
Adam Shaw's "Outkast" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas created in 2015. This striking contemporary artwork measures 20 x 16 inches (50.80 x 40.64 cm) with a depth of 0.62 inches (1.57 cm) and is professionally framed to 21.50 x 17.50 inches. Shaw masterfully captures the essence of the iconic hip-hop duo Outkast in this thought-provoking piece. The painting features vivid portraits of Andre 3000...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Good Housekeeping cover. Christmas: Child Praying
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator, Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The acc...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
By William Haskell Coffin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Category
1910s Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Moon II" (2024) By Adam Shaw, Original Oil Painting of Astronaut
By Adam Shaw
Located in Denver, CO
"Moon II" (2024) by Adam Shaw is an original handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of an astronaut.
About the Artist:
Figure painter, illustrator, and comics creator, Adam ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
January 2, 1998 (98-99 Series), Original Painting
By Mark Cudd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
1998–1999 marked a particularly tumultuous chapter for artist Mark Cudd. In this first installment of a 50-image series, he attempts to construct an honest ac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Table by the Window
By Edmund Quincy
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp (on back, on original stretcher): Estate of/ Edmund Quincy/ 1903-1997 ///
Category
20th Century American Realist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
March 9, 1998 (98-99 Series), Original Painting
By Mark Cudd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A woman glances sharply to her right, her expression poised between curiosity and caution. Rendered in stark black and white, the piece gives a timeless and cin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of a Seated Man in Jeans and a Sport Coat in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Seated Man in Jeans and a Sport Coat in Oil on Canvas
Modern impressionist portrait by an unknown artist (20th Century). A man is seated on a wood chair, wearing jeans...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Princess II" (2023) By Vasily Ryabchenko, Original Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Vasily Ryabchenko's "Princess II" (2023) is an original handmade portrait painting. This piece measures 72.54 x 82.54 cm framed and is ready to hang.
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mans (Best Friend) Splaining
By William Nelson
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mr. Peabody and Juliette Binoche cooking in the Way Back Machine
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Pink V) - Figurative Portrait Woman Pop Art Painting
By Hilary Bond
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In bold, acrylic line paintings, US artist Hilary Bond depicts the heads and torsos of women, often repeating the image in overlapping compositions. Her contemporary groups of pop c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Into the Blue" (2022) by Michelle Jader, Original Oil Painting on Acrylic Panel
By Michelle Jader
Located in Denver, CO
Michelle Jader's "Into the Blue" is an original, handmade oil painting on 3 acrylic panels and 1 mirror that depicts a woman swimming and spiralling down. The use of multiple panels ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Mirror
Geoff Rode South
By Billy Schenck
Located in Bozeman, MT
One of the originators of the Western pop art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from photorealism with a pop art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"LIDER SIN MIEDO" Figurative Portrait Painting 30" x 24" inch by Isaac Pelayo
By Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"LIDER SIN MIEDO" Figurative Portrait Painting 30" x 24" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Medium: oil, liquid gold, and aerosol on wood
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Isaac Pelayo is a head on crash col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold
untitled ( Civil Rights )
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
Evergood is decades ahead of his time in shouting out against racial injustice. Painted in the late 1950's KKK is an important work. For Philip Evergood (born Philip Blashki), pain...
Category
1950s American Modern Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Interwoven Socks Advertisement
By Walter Beach Humphrey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1920-1925
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 29.50" x 23.00"
Interwoven Socks Advertisement
Literatu...
Category
1920s American Modern Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Impenetrable Princess" (2020) By Denise Dambrackas, Original Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Impenetrable Princess" (2020) by Denise Dambrackas is an original mixed-media painting that depicts a young girl firing a bow in front of a crowd. This painting measures 25.5 x 31.5...
Category
2010s Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Panel
"Frida Kahlo in Rebozo" Contemporary Pop Art Inspired Pixel Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo wearing a rebozo, a Mexican garment worn like a shawl or scarf. Similar to pointillism, the individual ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Liberty IX /// Jack Graves Statue of Liberty New York France United States Paint
By Jack Graves III
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Liberty IX"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2025
Medium: Original Acr...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Woman with a butterfly in her hat. Colliers Magazine Cover
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
A wonderful and charming cover concept as an attractive young women stares at a beautiful butterfly caught in the netting of her hat. Fabry executes the work with his stylised loos...
Category
1930s Art Deco Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Lady in Green
By David McCall Johnston
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 12.50" x 10.13"
"Lady in Green" Cover Illustration.
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Spring III - Contemporary colourful figurative surrealistic painting
By Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Located in DE
Gamez de Francisco paints and photographs very passionately, making statements filled with symbolism. He frequently includes insects in his artwork. He says: Flying insects represent...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"San Juan Mountains" (2023) Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"San Juan Mountains" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece, released in 2023, is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag pre...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
White I - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gazing at Lebanese American artist Sally K's floral portrait is consuming and empowering. Inspired by strong, feminine women, she creates pop-realistic paintings that speak to the en...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.P)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Forget Me Not - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lebanese American artist Sally K.'s captivating floral portraits are both mesmerizing and empowering. Her pop-realistic paintings are inspired by strong, feminine women, celebrating ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Milton Avery #4"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
1960s American Modern Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liesel - Original Abstract Expressionist Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erin Hammond is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist whose free-form paintings capture the essence of her inner, subjective realities. With a vibrant palette and dynamic mark...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Marilyn 12, No. 29
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Marilyn 12, No. 29” is a chromogenic print in color by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is unsigned and editioned 72/75.
Lawrence Sc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Color
Serendipity
By Darren LeGallo
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to premiere the latest works by American artist Darren LeGallo.
Our second exhibition, Darren LeGallo, "From Destruction" has just opened at our West Hollywood gallery, comprised of more then twenty original mixed media paintings, now available for purchase for the very first time. "
Serendipity, is a unique mixed media paintings, signed, executed in 2019, the image is 48 x 24 inches, and is a completely mixed media work that includes oil, graphite, layered collage...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait with Blue Eyes, Modern Oil Painting by Miriam Bromberg
By Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait with Blue Eyes
Miriam Bromberg
Oil on Canvas
Size: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.56 cm)
Frame Size: 20 x 16 inches
Category
1970s Modern Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Romance in the Rain
By Christopher Clark
Located in Denver, CO
Romance in the Rain
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Bpuquet of Roses"
By Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Located in New York, NY
The details of this painting are excellent, from the chapeau, the shading on the woman's neck, earrings, lips. Paintings with Roses are very limited in the artists body of work and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Nature and Human Relationships – Embrace 5 – 50" Portrait Composition Painting
By Suki Maguire
Located in New York, NY
Unorthodox; yet effective, Suki treats us to a series of works that tantalizes the imagination with bold strokes of dark and light, hinting at shapes both human and ethereal and pulling us through the two-dimensional surface of the canvas into the mysterious depths of a multidimensional world. Her works resonate with strong, masculine strokes, vibrant colors, and passionate themes. The common factor is that when looking at her pieces you can spend some time letting your mind play within each painting and you'll come away with a much richer understanding of what Suki Maguire's art has to show at a simple glance. Signed on verso.
Art measures 36 x 46 inches
There is a great potential for discovery in Maguire's world of symbols, but a passing glance will not do, you have to allow your gaze to linger on this part and that of each painting so that your subconscious will have the opportunity to retrieve the elusive forms that seem to be hiding within the more obvious shapes. This holds true even in those works that incorporate letters of the Korean or Latin alphabet, which serve as glyphs bearing some symbolic meaning that goes beyond the mere representation of sound. She has exhibited internationally in Seoul, Nantucket, New York and Italy. Her styles and materials have ranged from realism to abstract, from water and oil colors to acrylics and coffee grounds.
Suki Maguire (Kim Jong...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Abstract Cubist Figurative - Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print - HFC 74-1
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Faces Abstract Collection - HFC 74-1
"Abstract Cubist Figurative - Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print - Human Face Collection - Picasso Inspired"
Experience the captivating all...
Category
2010s Cubist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, C...
Wanshui Zhu Portrait Original Mixed Media "Three People"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Three People
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 19.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Spring 1945", Galina Pshenitsina, Post-War, Figurative, 38x31, Impressionist
Located in Dallas, TX
Galina Vasilevna Pshenitsina was born in 1940 in the town of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She began her studies at the Art School named after Johanson in St. Petersburg. In 1959, she...
Category
1980s Post-War Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait d Souza, original lithograph
By François Desnoyer
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is a limited edition, signed and numbered by the artist. It is from my private collection of mid 20th Century School of Paris artists.
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Magenta Woman in Blue with Heart Leaf)
By Daisy Patton
Located in Denver, CO
This Daisy Patton work is an extension of her ongoing series called Forgetting is so long, where the artist wonders "Who do we choose to remember and how?". This work shows off Patto...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Oil, Wood Panel
"Jade", Figurative, Portrait, Acrylic, Chalk Pastel, Wax Pastel
By Chambers Austelle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative portrait drawing titled "Jade" is an original artwork by Chambers Austelle made of acrylic, chalk pastel, wax pastel. This piece measures 12"h x 12"w.
Chambers Austelle is a contemporary figurative painter and educator living and working in Charleston, SC. Austelle is best known for her compositions of vivid color and female subjects. The isolated environments challenge the viewer to question the way beauty and women are perceived in our culture.
Austelle’s work has been exhibited nationally and exists in many private collections. She was awarded Best in Show at The City Gallery for “Piccolo Spoleto’s 2016 Juried Exhibition”, as well as Charlie Magazine’s “50 Most Progressive”. Most recently, she was the 2018 recipient of St. Thomas’ Artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Acrylic
The Statue
By Christopher Clark
Located in Denver, CO
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Laßt Blumen Sprechen and Felt Diptych. Mixed media portrait photograph
By Hunter & Gatti
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “visible” spectrum, is probably the most well-known of human sensory limitations, as the human #eye is only capable of perceiving light at wavelengths between 390 and 750 nanomet...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Woman with a Bouquet by the Mirror
By Umberto Bianchini
Located in Soquel, CA
Subdued portrait of a woman holding flowers in front of a mirror by Umberto Bianchini (Italian, 1934-2010). Signed in the lower left corner and on ve...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Realization" (2022) by Stefan Smit, Female Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
"Realization" by Stefan Smit (South Africa based) is an original oil on panel depicting a female portrait of a dark haired girl with a lit cigarette.
"Stefan Smit is a South Africa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Halloween
Located in Burlingame, CA
Halloween - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photorealism subj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Susan in red, white and blue, " Oil painting
By Hollis Dunlap
Located in Denver, CO
Hollis Dunlap's (US based) "Susan in red, white and blue" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman in a white dress reclining, with her hand softly placed behind he...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
And Forsake All Others
By William Nelson
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lady Gaga, The Pink Panther and the Little Man
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market Woman- American Regionalist Oil Painting of Mid-Century City Life
Located in Marco Island, FL
Mid-century city life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Market Woman, where he depicts a woman with her shopping in 1955. An accomplished American Scene painter, Singer su...
Category
1950s American Realist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Yu Xia Portrait Original Oil On Canvas "Woman Next To Window"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Woman Next To Window
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 11.5 x 7.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Cautious Guardian, " Oil Painting
By Louis Recchia
Located in Denver, CO
Louis Recchia's (US based) "The Cautious Guardian" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas.
About the Artist:
Louis Recchia has been producing contemporary art in Denver fo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event.
Signed lower left
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Most likey for the Sa...
Category
1950s American Realist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The End of Our Season" (2024) by Morgan Cameron, Original Oil Painting
By Morgan Cameron
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “The End of Our Season” (2024) is an oil painting on panel that depicts a surreal still life of a cart filled with broken and decaying jack-o-lanterns.
A...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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