Realist Portrait Paintings
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
My Forever Summer
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork captures the spirit of freedom and reflection at the seashore. A solitary woman on a bicycle, her bright red skirt in motion, moves across a golden beach under a dramati...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Hercules Mourning the Death of his Cupbearer Hylas
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1849-1930)]
Oil on canvas
Signed in red, l.l.
48 x 60 inches, canvas size
54 x 66 inches in gold leaf frame
61 x 74 x 6 inches, framed
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“By his own account, the most ambitious work of Michallon’s career was a thirty-foot canvas depicting Noah’s Ark, which he exhibited in the Salon of 1875, where it went unmentioned by the critics. Preparatory work for this elaborate composition took him frequently to the Jardin des Plantes, where he made painstaking drawings and oil sketches of the animals on view. These studies were enthusiastically remarked upon by visitors to his studio, some of whom counseled him to give up history painting altogether and pursue the less dignified but presumably more lucrative career of animal painter. Following this advice, and profiting from the tremendous vogue in 1880s Europe for all things African...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little Girls and Their New Friends Genre Scene 19th century Oil Painting on Wood
Located in Stockholm, SE
Very touching scene with two little girls. Two sisters are thrilled to meet their new pets that their parents have bought. The sincerity and immediacy of children's feelings depicted...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Study of a Goat
s Head" Frans Lebret (Dutch, 1820-1909)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Study of a Goat"
Frans Lebret (Netherlands, 1820-1909)
Oil on paper on wood panel
9 x 10 (13 1/2 x 14 1/4 frame) inches
Initialled lower right
This is a simply stunning and deeply ...
Category
1870s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Wood Panel
Cardinal in His Though
by Georges Croegaert ( Antwerp 1848 - 1923 Paris )
Located in Knokke, BE
Georges Croegaert
Antwerp 1848 – 1923 Paris
Belgian – French Painter
'Cardinal in His Thoughts'
Signature: signed lower right and placed ‘Georges Croegaert Paris’
Medium: oil on pa...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Beginning of the Road
Located in Zofingen, AG
In my artwork, I explore the symbolic intersection of journey's end and new beginnings. Using acrylics, I depict a person next to their classic car by a "road ends" sign. The spaciou...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Two Worlds - British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting religious art
Located in Hagley, England
This intriguing British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Arthur Croft Mitchell. It is entitled Two Worlds verso and dated as c1910. The composition of th...
Category
1910s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Race Horse Phoenix with Guilermo Kemmis - British 19th century art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British 19th century equine oil painting is by noted horse lover, George Gascoyne. Painted in 1889, this French born chestnut horse is Phoenix. While he was essentially a miler, Phoenix (sometimes seen spelled as “Phenix”) came from a family that had produced Classic winners in France at up to 15 furlongs. He proved an excellent sire following his export to Argentina, becoming the foundation stallion for Guillermo Kemmis' breeding program at Haras Las Rosas. This painting is from his time in Argentina with Kemmis. Phoenix is depicted in a flat landscape against a vivid blue sky. A gentleman, possibly his owner, Guillermo Kemmis, stands smiling in front of him holding his reigns and gives perspective to how tall Phoenix is. Although in profile, Phoenix is turning to look at the viewer, his chestnut coat gleaming and his anatomy perfectly portrayed. This is a superb Victorian equine portrait of a noted horse in the 19th century and is a lovely example of Gascoyne's work as a horse lover.
Signed with initials and dated GG 1889 lower right.
Provenance. Inscribed "Phenix" (Cymbal -- Belle-Etoile) by George Gascoyne, Sittingbourne, Kent to reverse.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 36 inches by 28 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a wooden frame, 44 inches by 36 inches and in good condition.
HORSE BIOGRAPHY
Phoenix (FR) 1875 – 1893? Chestnut horse.
Cymbal (GB) x Belle Etoile (FR), by First Born (FR)
Family 25. While he was essentially a miler, Phoenix (sometimes seen spelled as “Phenix”) came from a family that had produced Classic winners in France at up to 15 furlongs. He proved an excellent sire following his export to Argentina, becoming the foundation stallion for Guillermo Kemmis' breeding program at Haras Las Rosas.
Race record. Complete record unavailable but as follows:
1878: Won Prix de la Forêt (FR, 1600mT, Longchamp)
1879: Won July Cup (ENG, 6FT, Newmarket July). Won Rous Memorial Stakes (ENG, 8FT, Ascot). Won Bunbury Stakes (ENG, Newmarket). 2nd Rosebery Handicap (ENG, Epsom)
1880: Won Lennox Stakes (ENG, Goodwood)
As a stallion: Phoenix was the Argentine champion sire six times, reaching the top in 1887-1890, 1892 and 1895.
Notable progeny: Hawk Eye (ARG), Lenape (ARG), Marinera (ARG), Osiris (ARG), San Martín (ARG), Surplice (ARG)
Connections: Phoenix was owned by Comte Frédéric de Lagrange. After being exported to Argentina, he stood at Haras Las Rosas, the stud farm of leading Argentine breeder Guillermo Kemmis. His last known foals were born in 1894.
Pedigree notes: Phoenix is outcrossed through five generations. Sired by Cymbal, a son of 1861 Derby Stakes winner Kettledrum, he is out of Belle Etoile, whose half sister Garenne (by Gladiator or Ethirion or Freystrop) is the second dam of 1894 Prix Royal-Oak (French St. Leger) winner Gouvernail and the third dam of 1894 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby...
Category
1880s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Spring, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A young Tibetan girl on her way to school symbolizes the start of a new semester and a new life. The sun overhead casts shadows on her form, revealing the textu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Open Road Ballad
Located in Zofingen, AG
A striking composition that fuses American nostalgia with contemporary energy. A red barn with a flag, a vintage light-blue car, and a young woman in denim holding a drink embody f...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
"Touch"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Portrait of a young girl in a delicate, light-colored dress, painted in soft pastel tones.
The composition of the portrait focuses on the figure of the girl, who is located in the ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Let Them Eat Cake" (2014) by Suzy Smith, Original Oil Painting, Portrait
By Suzy Smith
Located in Denver, CO
Suzy Smith's "Let Them Eat Cake" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a female nude with a crown set against a backdrop inspired by a Wayne Thiebaud cake...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Portrait of Young Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Outstanding male portrait by 20th-century American artist, Vito Tomasello.
Portrait of Young Man, John Alcorn, Eliot House, Cambridge MA.
Pencil on pap...
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Popcorn
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting presents a sophisticated visual paradox: a woman dressed in the refined style of a 17th-century portrait — black dress, lace collar, white bonnet — is interrupted by un...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hawaii
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of Calif...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
$7,500
19th Century Italian Orientalist Antique Oil Painting Young Woman Well Sunset
Located in Stockholm, SE
Exquisite 19th century Italian orientalist oil painting depicting a romantic sunset scene with a young Middle Eastern woman at an ancient well. The composition features a beautifully...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Portrait of Girls with a Cat - British Victorian Genre animal art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This charming British Victorian genre oil painting is by noted exhibited artist John Morgan. Painted circa 1870 the composition is two young girls, one dark haired one blonde, who ar...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"2/3" by Conrado López, Original Oil and Acrylic Painting, Female Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
"2/3" by Conrado López is a delicate yet expressive 2024 artwork, utilizing acrylic, gold leaf and oil on a canvas sized at 15.75 x 15.75 in (40 x 40cm).
This piece is a prime exa...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Study of a Pointer Running by Léon Espinasse (French 19th/20th)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Study of a Pointer Running"
Léon Espinasse (French, c. 1870 to 20th century)
Watercolor on paper
Signed on right
15 x 11 1/2 (28 1/4 x 23 1/2 frame) inches
A stunning exercise in ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Desvelada" (2015), Original Realist Still-Life Female Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
Aixa Oliveras's (US based) "Desvelada" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a model laying in bed looking at her cell phone.
This piece i...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Quiéreme, querida" – Abstract Figurative Female Portrait, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Jessica Oliveras (b. 1991) is a Spanish visual artist whose work explores the intersection of the spiritual and physical realms through a unique blend of figuration and abstraction. ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American Realist Interior Portrait Signed Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract landscape oil painting by Charles Courtney Curran (1861 - 1942) . Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Measuring: 23 by 27 inches overall, and 18...
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Genre Scene in Parisian park 19th Century Oil painting
By Emile Tabary
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed by Émile Tabary. Lively scene in in a parisian park, pictured moment of city life of the late 19th century. In this painting, some irony and humor are very subtly felt. One of...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Seated Female Nude Portrait - British 1930
s portrait oil painting Empire frame
By Harold Knight
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British nude portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Harold Knight. Painted circa 1930, it is a seated study of a nude woman in soft focus, arms raised to on...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil
$7,688 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Bride - British 1934 Romantic art female portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful British 1930's portrait oil painting is by noted artist Frank Owen Salisbury or Frank O'Salisbury as he is also known. Painted in 1934, the composition is a half lengt...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boy in Army Coat
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of Cali...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Cecily Byrne as Mary Stewart - British art 30
s actress portrait oil painting
By George Carr Drinkwater
Located in Hagley, England
Painted by George Carr Drinkwater, this vibrant oil on canvas depicts the actress of stage and screen Cecily Byrne as Mary Stuart. Painted circa 1930 it is a stunning evocative portrait of an actress who was famous throughout the 1930’s. A fine portrait of a long forgotten film star. Cecily Byrne (1889-1975) was an actress, known for Loyalties, Henry IV and Brown Sugar...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cowards - Original oil painting - Zack Zdrale
Located in Chicago, IL
Three figures, bent forward with their hands over their heads, seem caught in an emotional storm. Their mirrored postures convey shame, fear, and helplessness—states central to grief...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hungarian Rabbi Large Judaica Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
20th century Jewish Rabbi Portrait, Judaica Oil Painting
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Sea
Located in Zofingen, AG
A girl in black with vivid red tights sits beside a monumental black cat, the backdrop a cold, rippling sea. The subdued palette of black, red, and marine tones creates harmony wh...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
La Leçon de Chant – The Singing Lesson
by Théodule Augustin Ribot, 1823 – 1891
By Théodule Augustin Ribot
Located in Knokke, BE
Théodule Augustin Ribot
St Nicolas d’Attez 1823 – 1891 Colombes
French Painter
'La Leçon de Chant – The Singing Lesson'
Signature: signed lower left 't.ribot'
Medium: oil on canva...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Angel Food" (2013) by Suzy Smith, Original Oil Painting, Portrait
By Suzy Smith
Located in Denver, CO
Suzy Smith's "Angel Food" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a female nude set against a backdrop inspired by a Wayne Thiebaud cake...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Naive English Portrait of a Girl, circa 1830s Oil on Board, Antique Painting
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
English Naive School, 19th Century
Unsigned
" Portrait of a Seated Girl Holding a Bouquet ", circa 1830
Oil on Board, Laid on Canvas
13 1/4" x 10 1/2"
Housed in a 3" Carved Fram...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bavarian Gentleman Holding a Candle Fine German Oil Painting Portrait of Man
By Fritz Muller
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fritz Muller (1913 - 1972)
oil painting on board, framed
signed
framed: 17 x 14.5 inches
board: 14 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good and sound ...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$878 Sale Price
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"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
Woman hippie original oil acrylic on canvas painting realism Spain Sitges 70s
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frame size 52x44
Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951.
After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing.
At the age of 14 he begins to work in ...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Pair of Terriers, Gianni Reggio (Italian, 1898-1961)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Pair of Terriers
Gianni Reggio (Italian, 1898-1961)
Circa 1930s
Gouache on paper
15 x 14 inches (frame)
Signed on the back.
Gianni Reggio was an Italian painter and illustrator wh...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Violin Player, Berlin, German Women Artists
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Elise Brennicke (German, Born 1855)
Signed: Elise Brennicke 1909 (Lower, Right)
" The Violin Player ", 1909
Oil on Canvas
39 3/4" x 30 7/8"
Housed in a 2 5/8" Period Ornamented ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Realist European painter - 19th century figure painting - Portrait of a gentlema
Located in Varmo, IT
European Painter (19th century) - Portrait of a Gentleman.
13.5 x 10 cm without frame, 18.5 x 15.5 cm with frame.
Watercolor on paper, in original 19th century frame (not signed).
...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$714 Sale Price
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Contemporary portraits "Old Newspaper"
Located in Zofingen, AG
The piece is a dialogue on freedom and grounding, encouraging reflection on life's journey and the stillness found in moments of change. It offers a vibrant addition to any space, co...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
My General
Located in Zofingen, AG
This is how you live, and you're indifferent to your neighbors, because it's Europe, the 21st century, who needs a war? And then, bam, your world turns upside down. The portrait of t...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Americano with Milk
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this artwork, captured using acrylic paints, I highlighted the vintage allure and vividness of an American roadside scene. Vibrant contrasts and symbolic elements such as the oran...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
"Nox" (2023) By Allen Williams, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Nox" (2023) by Allen Williams is an original handmade oil painting that depicts a disturbing a uncanny portrait of a man on a dim gold background.
Abo...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Sabor a miel" – Abstract Figurative Female Portrait, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Jessica Oliveras (b. 1991) is a Spanish visual artist whose work explores the intersection of the spiritual and physical realms through a unique blend of figuration and abstraction. ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman Reading
, Regency Dandy, William Blake, Royal Academy
By George Richmond
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Portrait of a Gentleman Reading' by George Richmond, RA.
Regency Dandy, William Blake, Royal Academy, Framed Oil
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Signed lower right, 'Richmond' for George Richmond, RA (Brit...
Category
1840s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait of Mrs William Tisdall Elsie Gardiner - British Edwardian oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb large British Edwardian exhibited portrait oil painting is by noted artist George Spencer Watson. It was painted in 1909 and exhibite...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Norwegian Madonna" Original realistic portrair. Large vertical oil painting
Located in Oslo, NO
This painting was created specifically for the New masculinity collection on Singulart.
The topic is very relevant and concerns many people .Gender roles have ceased to be as specifi...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fine Stiepevich Orientalist Painting of a Lounging Odalisque in the Harem
Located in New York, NY
VINCENT G. STIEPEVICH
Russian, 1841-1910
Lounging Odalisque in the Harem
Signed ‘VG. Stiepevich’ L/R
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Frame: 26 x 33 inches
Category
1890s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Highway to McHeaven
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork portrays a vast desert scene under a vibrant blue sky dotted with fluffy clouds. In the foreground, two young women stand together, one holding a McDonald's bag, clearl...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Odalisque - Woman in a Harem - French 1900 Orientalist art portrait oil painting
By Lucien Laurent Gsell
Located in Hagley, England
This charming ex Christie's Victorian Orientalist oil painting is by noted French exhibited artist Lucien Laurent Gsell. The painting dates to around 1900 and portrays a beautiful yo...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Realist Genre Scene Framed High Society Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
George Dunlop Leslie (1835 - 1921) Antique English realist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 17 by 20 overall and 12 by 15 paining alone.
Artist Bio:
George Dunlop Leslie RA (London 2 July 1835 – 21 February 1921 Lindfield, Sussex) was a British genre painter, author and illustrator. He was born into an artistic family; his father was the notable genre painter Charles Robert Leslie RA, and his uncle Robert Leslie was a marine artist. He studied art first at Cary's Art Academy, then from 1854 at the Royal Academy. His first exhibition at the Academy was in 1859, and he showed his work every year thereafter. He became an Associate (ARA) in 1868 and a full Royal Academician (RA) in 1876.George Dunlop Leslie lived early on in St John's Wood (London), and was part of the St John's Wood Clique, a group of artists who favoured light-hearted genre subjects. From 1884–1901 he was resident at "Riverside", St. Leonard's Lane, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. His sister Mary Leslie (1833–1907), also an artist, lived at "Cromwell Lodge" next door. Fellow artist, James Hayllar, was also a resident of the village and they painted a portrait of Queen Victoria together for her Golden Jubilee in 1887. From 1906 he lived at "Compton House" in Lindfield, SussexHis early works, such as Matilda (1860) showed the strong influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, but he settled into a more academic, aesthetic, style of painting with the aim of showing "pictures from the sunny side of English domestic life". He often used children as subjects and his work was praised by John Ruskin for its portrayal of the "sweet quality of English girlhood". One of his pictures, This is the Way we Wash our Clothes, was used as a poster in an advertising campaign for soap. Despite its apparently trivial subject matter, however, Leslie's work was highly regarded by critics of the time.In 1889 during his time at Riverside house in Wallingford Leslie is credited with painting four angel murals in St Leonards Church.Leslie was also an author and had several books published. Our river (1888), Letters to Marco (1893) and Riverside letters (1896) were all illustrated by him in black and white, and based on personal observations of life and nature in his local area. He also wrote a history of the early years of the Royal Academy - The inner life of the Royal Academy.Leslie was married to Lydia. They had a daughter Alice (depicted in his painting Alice in Wonderland) and a son Peter Leslie...
Category
1880s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sitting Gracefully While the World Falls Apart
Located in Zofingen, AG
Two platinum blonde women dressed in elegant black sit closely together in a dimly lit room, their contrasting attire symbolizing purity, vulnerability, and unity — like two halves o...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a Man Smoking a Pipe in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man Smoking a Pipe in Oil on Masonite
Detailed portrait of a man with a pipe by Heinz Robert Schubert (German, 1912-2001 approx.). A man wearing a short-brimmed hat is...
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Portrait of Gerardina Van Osch by Dutch artist Johan Hendrik Neuman (Dutch)
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful realist mid 19th century portrait of Gerardina Van Osch (Dutch, 1819-1898) by Jan Hendrik Neuman (Johan Heinrich Neuman) (German, 1819-1898). S...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Regina Maris Ship, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Regina Maris, 1908
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 16 x 19.25 inches
Superb oil painting by the well li...
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$768 Sale Price
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[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Michael Hunting
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed in red, u.r.
14 x 11 inches, canvas size
14.5 x 11.5 inches in distressed gold leaf frame
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Bruc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Contemporary portrait "California"
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork captures a vibrant Californian scene, with a sleek vintage black car set against a sun-drenched desert landscape and a bold "CALIFORNIA"...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary portrait "Guardians"
Located in Zofingen, AG
I wake up in the morning, open Facebook, read the news... and when the hell will I finally wake up from this nightmare...In creating this piece, I sought to bridge the classic with t...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
LANGEROCK Portrait Young Egyptian girl Belgian realist painter 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri LANGEROCK Ghent, 1830 – Marseille, 1915
Oil on canvas 45 x 33 cm (69 x 57 cm with the frame)
Signed top right "H. Langerock"
Beautiful 19th century gilded wood frame
Henri Langerock was a Belgian painter born in Ghent but who worked in France and died in Marseille. He also traveled a lot, in France and abroad. Langerock first became known for his landscapes of France (Vosges, Picardy, Ardèche...). Then he traveled to Egypt and Brazil between 1878 and 1885, as well as to black Africa.
He exhibited his painting of a traveling painter at the Paris Salon until 1901.
Our painting is a beautiful portrait of a young girl with a lace headdress and a sequin necklace...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,289 Sale Price
20% Off
Anton Ebert Portrait of a Woman Oil on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
Anton Ebert (Austrian, 1845-1896), Portrait of a Woman, Oil on Oval Canvas laid on Board, 19th century, signed "A. Ebert / Wien" to mid right, original ova...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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