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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Transcendent of Reflections
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The title of the painting, "Transcendent of Reflections," speaks to the woman's contemplative state of mind. It suggests that she is in the process of transcending her own thoughts and reflections, perhaps seeking a deeper understanding of herself and the world around her.
"Transcendent of Reflections" is a powerful and thought-provoking painting that invites viewers to reflect on their own inner worlds. The painting celebrates the beauty and complexity of black African women and encourages viewers to embrace their own inner contemplation as a means of transcending the limitations of everyday life.
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About Artist
Bakare Babatunde...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
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Janet Seated
, Paris, Louvre, Salon d
Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Di Gesu", for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988); further signed and titled verso, and bearing original exhibition label.
A substantial figural oil showing V...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Body of Mind -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Men Oil, Modern Art
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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About Artist
Lawrence...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
1950’s Fashion Illustration Original Painting Of A Lady In A Stunning Pink Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pink Dress
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
ink/watercolour/pencil drawing on card, unframed
paper: 10 x 6.5 inches
double sided
very good condition
provenance: from the artists...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Bright Expectations - 21st Century figurative Painting of a young pregnant woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
Bright Expectations
100 x 95 cm
Oil on canvas
The painting is not framed, if you wish to have it framed, we will be happy to advice you on this.
This portrait painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Head Portrait of a Lioness Fine British 1930
s Oil Painting Gilt Framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lioness
English artist, circa 1930's
oil on board, framed
framed: 10.5 x 9.5 inches
board: 8 x 7 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: overall good and sound
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grace - Abstract Expressionist Contemporary 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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Portrait of a Young Lady - Large Antique French Post Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large 1920's French post-impressionist oil on canvas portrait of a young lady by Charles Picart le Doux. The artist is very interesting and was friends with Picasso, Piss...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Restful Moments
Located in Atlanta, GA
Small limited edition run of 49 and 6 E.A."s (Edition of the artist). Each canvas reproduction is crafted by a skilled printer under the supervision of the artist. Román Francés has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Giclée
$500 Sale Price
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Boeckhorst, Rubens, Saint Ursula, Decorative Old Master, Woman, Baroque, Flemish
By Jan Boeckhorst
Located in Greven, DE
Johann Boeckhorst (Münster 1604 - Antwerp 1668)
Saint Ursula
Oil on canvas, 112 x 86 cm
Provenance:
New York, Christe's, 20.3.1981, lot 88 (as Van Diepenbeeck's circle)
The presen...
Category
17th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man, Yaddo
By Rosemarie Beck
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003). Yaddo Portrait of a Man (possibly Larry Osgood). Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches. Without frame. Minor rippling of canvas with...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
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KPM porcelain plaque depicting Psyche holding a Lekythos
Located in New York, NY
A largeKPM painted porcelain plaque depicting a Psyche holding a Lekythos. The lush and overgrown dark forrest envelops the background of composition, surrounding a bright female fig...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
After Rembrandt - Framed 20th Century Oil, Self-portrait with Beret
Located in Corsham, GB
After Rembrandt (1606-1669). Copy of Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar. Oil on panel. Monogrammed in Hebrew to the lower right. Well presented in a bold gilt-effect frame...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$548 Sale Price
20% Off
French Rococo 18th-Century Portrait Young Boy Playing a Flute Oval Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Boy
French Rococo School, 18th century, unsigned
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 24 x 20 inches
Canvas : 20 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condi...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
14th Street Station - Oakland, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist John McCabe presents a diverse set of people crowding in a terminal. He pictures them in his signature graphic style of pop ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Together. Without words Original painting by Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting is a finalist of the international art contest organised by Artbox project and was exhibited as finalists in Basel International airport during Art Basel week in 2024. ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Eternity
s Embrace
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Eternity's Embrace" is a captivating and evocative painting that celebrates the timeless bond between two black African souls. Against a backdrop of vibrant Ankara fabrics, meticulo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil
$2,720 Sale Price
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The Broken Mirror
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional ealry oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002).
The Broken Mirror, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naughty
Located in Pine Plains, NY
Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Cockrill's approach addresses imagery from Golden children's books with a sense of contemporary irony and humor. Published in "The A...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
$28,000
Natalie
Located in Oslo, NO
The portrait depicts a beautiful girl in the prime of her youth, when her whole life is ahead and full of hope. Despite the fact that it depicts a specific person, this portrait can ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Country Figure - Painting by Luciano Schifano - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden table realized by Luciano Schifano (1943) in 1988.
Hand signed and titled.
Good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Mignard Paint Oil on canvsa Old master 17th Century French Lady Woman
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Pierre Mignard, known as Le Romain (Troyes 1612 - Paris 1695), attributed
Portrait of 'Louise Renée de Penancoët de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth and Aubigny (Brest 1649 - Paris 1734) as MADDALENA
Oil on canvas
97 x 88 cm
In an important gilded frame 132 x 122 cm.
Provenance: Private collection, Naples
The young and attractive noblewoman portrayed in this painting is Louis Renée de Penancoet de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth and Aubigny (Brest 1649 - Paris 1734), known to have been King Charles II's favourite mistress for over fifteen years, from whose relationship Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, was born, but above all to have gone down in history as one of Louis XIV's French informants at the English court.
The duchess was a very influential figure at court, promoting French interests and often acting as an intermediary between the king, his ministers and French ambassadors.
After the death of Charles II this influence quickly came to an end, forcing her to hastily leave London and renounce all her possessions to return to her homeland, between Aubigny-sur-Nère and Paris, where she died in 1734, always remaining in the sovereign's good graces.
The peculiarity of the portrait, probably executed after her return to her homeland, is that the noblewoman takes the form of a charming Mary Magdalene, depicted here following her renunciation of earthly possessions, her rich robes and jewellery, in order to aspire to heavenly riches; We see her immortalised with her long hair loose on one breast, her intriguing but serene gaze directed at the observer, as she rests her crossed hands, as if in prayer, on the ampulla of perfumed ointments and the open book, both iconographic symbols.
The custom of being portrayed in the guise of Magdalene was in vogue for powerful women of the great European courts as early as the 16th century, as it represented the most appropriate image to justify the union of female power and virtue. It must be said that court culture exalted only the positive characteristics of her personality, glossing over or downplaying all references to her sinful past and dissolute life.
The work, whose style fits perfectly into 17th century French portraiture, suggests the pertinent attribution to the Baroque painter Pierre Mignard (Troyes, 1612 - Paris, 1695), whose works were highly praised and earned him a great reputation as a portrait painter for the demanding Parisian aristocracy at the time of Louis XIV, and who portrayed the Duchess de Kérouaille on numerous occasions.
His first important artistic training took place in Simon Vouet's studio, and he then moved to Italy for over twenty years before returning to Paris, blending his own with the influence of Roman classicism.
The elegant looseness of touch and sensual refinement typical of Mignard, combined with a very accurate chiaroscuro rendering, inherited from his artistic training in Rome (which he looked up to the examples of Ferdinad Voet), and the exceptional sweetness of the drawing, the floridity of the complexion and the almost enamelled surfaces, and finally, the peculiar pose of the figure portrayed (the beauty of the two intertwined hands...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$12,805 Sale Price
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Gustav Klimt Sketch of a Woman Catalogued
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Dallas, TX
Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918)
Frauenkopf nach rechts, 1916
Pencil on paper
Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.75 Inches (57.2 x 37.5 cm) (sheet)
Stamped lower right: GUSTAV / KLIMT / NACHLAS...
Category
1910s Aesthetic Movement Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper
Jeune Fille en Blanc - 19th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Jeune Fille en Blanc’ by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942).
Academy Fine Paintings is fully conversant with the legal exemptions which, under the supreme law of the U.S. Constitut...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Deposition Atala De Roussy-trioson Paint Oil on canvas 19/20th Century French
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The deposition of Atala
Follower of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (Montargis, 1767 - Paris, 1824)
19th-20th century
Oil on canvas
47 x 65 cm. - Framed 67 x 84 cm
The propos...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,116 Sale Price
20% Off
Embrace Nature 6 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Floral, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This piece is a catalyst. As we navigate the complexities of our modern world, embracing Nature has become more crucial than ever.
"Nature"
I observed that her beauty comes from emb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Reflection" by Casey Childs, Oil Painting, Reflected female figure (2021)
By Casey Childs
Located in Denver, CO
Casey Childs' (US based) "Last Light" is an oil painting that depicts a female with upswept blonde hair reflected in a mirror.
Artist Statement:
"My work as a whole encompasses an ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Girl Playing Piano - British 19th century musical art oil painting
By Ralph Peacock
Located in Hagley, England
This superb, large British Victorian portrait in an interior oil painting is attributed to circle of Ralph Peacock. Peacock painted a large number of children of wealthy 19th century families, often with luscious ornate backgrounds and textiles such as the wall paper, marquetry piano...
Category
1890s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$6,616 Sale Price
20% Off
Souvenir of Resilience 3 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Gob...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Ragin
Against The Machine. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
It's long believed that "the machine" is capitalism and the oppressive structures at the highest levels of society. Renegade artist Basquiat became drawn into this machine and became...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Portrait of Putti Playing - French 17th century art Old Master oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning French 17th century Old Master oil painting is by Baroque artist Laurent de la Hyre. It was painted circa 1645 and has excellent prove...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
An Introspective 1930s Modern Portrait, "Acolyte" by Noted Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
An Introspective 1930s Modern Portrait, "Acolyte" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Dry watercolor on board. Artwork size: 15 x 12 inches (Framed size: 18 ...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Listed Artist Samuel West (1810-1867) Antique oil on canvas, Dated 1860 Portrait
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an Antique oil painting on canvas 19 century depicting a portrait of a British Gentleman by Listed British-Irish Artist Samuel West (1810-1860).
C...
Category
1860s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Answer Within
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)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
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lying woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frame size 86x114 cm.
Signed lower left Mallol Suazo
Josep Maria Mallol i Suazo (Barcelona, 1910 - Barcelona, 1986) is a well-known painter whom critics pointed out as one o...
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,329 Sale Price
60% Off
Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Carlos Enrique Alvarez
Untitled, 2024
Oil on canvas
47 x 47 in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Hands That Holds Me -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Green
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
"You always say don't start ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
20th Century Original French Expressionist Oil Painting Abstract Face
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original oil painting by P. Valetti (French, second half 20th century)
oil on canvas, unframed
size: 24 x 19.75 inches
condition: very good
provenance: from the artists estate, Franc...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
THE LIGHT FAMILY acrylic on canvas painting
By Daria Kusto
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original painting by Daria Kusto.
acrylic on canvas.
The magic flow reality...
Painting rolled in a sturdy tube.
Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly.
Category
2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Elegant Lady with a Red Lipstick
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov
(Born 1974) Russian
Elegant Reclining with a Red Lipstick
Oil on canvas: 14 x 10 inches. Frame: 21 x 17 inches.
Konstantin Razumov's work has been offered at a...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled 4 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Born in 1993 in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Fanny-Elizabeth Casthelaz - Framed Mid 20th Century Oil, The Lacemakers
Located in Corsham, GB
This intimate genre scene depicts two elderly women in traditional French dress and white caps, engaged in needlework. The artist employs a warm, naturalistic palette and soft brushw...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950
S FRENCH FAUVIST OIL - YOUNG LADY SEATED ON TERRACE CHAIR - BEAUTIFUL COLOR
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1950. The style is a combination of Fauvism and Modernism.
Title: Seated Young Lady.
Medium: oil painting on thick hessian canvas.
Size: p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930
s French Oil Painting Introspective Portrait of a Woman in Deep Thought
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman in Thought
French School, early 20th century
indistinctly signed oil on board, glass covering framed
(please note the frame is a modern example)
framed: 13 x 9 in...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Go Hard (Pool Party)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Patrick Terenchin (b.1970).
Go Hard (Pool Party), 2025
Oil, acrylic, color pencil on wood panel.
Depicted are three young men at a Wilton Manors pool party. Each is managing his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait Lady Woman Voet Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italian Art
By Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639 - Paris 1689)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639 - Paris 1689) Atelier
Portrait of the Young Ortensia Mancini, Duchess of La Meilleraye (Rome 1646 - Chelsea 1699)
Oil on canvas
75 x 61 cm. - exquisite gilded and lacquered wooden double frame 105 x 91 cm.
The beautiful painting depicting the young and attractive Duchess Ortensia Mancini is part of the refined portraiture of Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639 - Paris 1689). Of Flemish origin, the painter achieved great success with the aristocratic families of Rome - where he stayed from 1663 to 1679 - thanks to the famous series of portraits commissioned by Cardinal Flavio Chigi, depicting the most enchanting women of the time, and now housed in the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia.
The paintings became so popular that the artist was repeatedly asked to reproduce replicas and similar versions of them: the 'cabinet des dames' was thus one of the Roman fashions of the 17th century, justifying the large number of female portraits attributable to his workshop that gravitated on the market.
Voet flaunted in his portraits a peculiar softness and grace in the rendering of the complexions, a subtle voluptuousness in the description of the lips, entrusted to small brushstrokes of red, a sense of calm fixity in the pose, all characteristics that are immediately reflected in the work under examination.
Our young effigy, Hortense Mancini...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$10,757 Sale Price
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Scandinavian Family Portrait, Artist 18th Century, Scandinavian School
Located in Knokke, BE
Scandinavian Family Portrait
Artist 18th century
18th Century
Scandinavian School
Signature: Not signed
Medium: Miniature
Dimensions: Image size ...
Category
18th Century Medieval Portrait Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Max Zinsmeister - Biedermeier School 1840 Oil, Portrait of A Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine Biedermeier school portrait depicting a well-dressed gentleman with a smart black coat and brown leather gloves. Captured in a rich palette with impressive attention to detail...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
English School 18th Century Oil - Boy with A Hoop
Located in Corsham, GB
This 18th century portrait depicts a young child in formal attire standing in a pastoral landscape, holding a hoop toy. The composition juxtaposes the subject's rigid pose and ornate...
Category
Early 18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Young Girl Green
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tristan Fabris 1970's French surrealist artist
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 19 x 16 inches
canvas: 18 x 15 inches
private collection, France
The painting is in overall sound ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
FRIENDS
By Daria Kusto
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original painting by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic markers on paper.
The magic flow reality...
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Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
Portrait of Lady in Ermine Stole - British 19th century art female oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This wonderful 19th century interior portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Martin Archer Shee. It is a half-length portrait of a seated lady in a black silk dress, ermine stole and superb floral bonnet. It is a super realistic depiction of different textures - fur, silk and her beautiful face and hair. She is also holding her glasses, suggesting she is an educated woman who likes to read. A really magnificent portrait. The fur of the white winter ermine or stoat, with its trademark black tail-tip can often be seen in portraits of royalty...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Native American Elder in oil on Artist
s Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Native American Elder in oil on Artist's Board
Stately portrait of an elderly man by Hoyt Yeatman II (Jr) (American, 1926-2019). Shown against a dark background, the man is wearing a blue tunic, red headband...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Illustration Board
Antique French Impressionist Self Portrait of Artist 1900
s Oil Painting canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Self Portrait of the Artist
by René PIROLA (French, 1878 - 1912)
stamped with artists mark
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 27 x 22 inches
canvas: 26 x 21.5 inches
Provenance: private ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
One Must Shimmer, Oil Painting
By Mary Pratt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mary Pratt paints an ethereal figure with a billowing gossamer white skirt. The woman gazes through a sea of floating lights, framing her and spilling ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Glow, " Oil Painting
By Karen Offutt
Located in Denver, CO
Karen Offutt's "Glow" is an original, handmade painting that depicts a close up view of a feminine face with her eyes closed as her necklace and alabaster skin reflect brightly again...
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
18th Century by Pietro Bardellino Mary Magdalene Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Pietro Bardellino (Naples, Italy, 1731 – 1806)
Title: Mary Magdalene
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 75 x 60 cm – with frame 97 x 82 cm
Antique shaped and carved wood...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$16,069 Sale Price
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A Family Group with a Pet Dog
. Antique painting on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
William Richard Waters
Picture Size: 36 x 28" (92 x 72cm)
Outside Frame Size: 44 x 36" (112 x 92 cm)
Oil on Canvas signed bottom right and dated 1847
This painting is nearly 200 year...
Category
1840s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$6,836 Sale Price
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The Flagellation of Christ Antique Oil on Wood Panel Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Flagellation of Christ
Eastern European artist, late 19th century
oil on wood panel, framed
framed: 35 x 25.5 inches
panel: 32 x 21 inches
Provenance: private collection, Franc...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,669 Sale Price
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"Marin sur le pont" by Edmond de Palezieux - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
oil on canvas without frame
One point of restoration
Category
1890s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait Paintings for Sale 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.
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