Full Length Portrait Oil Painting
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Oil
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings
Oil
19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Realist Nude Paintings
Oil
1830s English School Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
16th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Academic Nude Paintings
Oil
16th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1910s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Board
1920s Fauvist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
1910s Fauvist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
1970s American Modern Landscape Prints
Drypoint, Etching
1980s Color-Field Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
17th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Plaster, Oil
18th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Canvas
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
Late 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
1820s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1660s Portrait Paintings
Oil
1780s Portrait Paintings
Oil
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
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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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