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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Portrait of a Classic 19th-Century Beauty
Located in San Francisco, CA
Everything about this portrait denotes an aristocratic sitter. Enrobed in an off-white silken gown, the young lady is adorned by a string of pearls extending beyond her waist. Since ...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of John Rogers, A Sculptor for the Common Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
So American, this sculptor. Both a right brain and left-brain kind of guy. Working in the mid to late 19th century, John Rogers was innovative, imaginative, and stylistically a reali...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Face No. 103, 2018
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
A face in multi colors, including mainly bone with red, grey and white. Acrylic painting on paper is 14 x 11 inches. Part of the artist's new series begun in 2017 of anonymous face...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Someone / Never Met
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
A portrait of a man. Acrylic on paper 14 x 11 inches unframed and 15 x 12 inches framed, Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 and featuring real and imagined ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Superb Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
The sitter is an elegant young woman in her finest dress and jewelry.
Original oil on canvas. Dimensions 22" x 27...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of 19th C. American Oval Portraits
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of 19th century American oval portraits of a couple, possibly husband & wife
Oil on canvas
21.5 x 26.5
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century Oil Portrait of a Fashionable Young Woman by Barrow c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 20th Century Oil Portrait of a Fashionable Young Woman by Barrow c.1970
Bright, bold and colorful painting - Classic vintage oil portrait
Or...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sings the Tune Without the Word
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sings the Tune Without the Words' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious them...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
After Rembrandt "The Prodigal Son in the Tavern" Old Master Style Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
After Rembrandt
"The Prodigal Son in the Tavern"
Old Master Style Painting
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
Oil on Canvas
36.75 x 44.5 unframed
40.5" x 48.5" framed
Category
Late 19th Century Dutch School Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an Exceptional Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s the eyes you notice first, almost photographically rendered in this portrait, and very reminiscent of a certain film star whose first name was Paul. There’s a rock-solid steadin...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a 19th-century Japanese Gentleman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This striking and remarkably Western-style portrait of a distinguished Japanese elder was done in the winter of 1885. His layered clothing with subtle details suggests formal attire,...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ohio-born painter William J. Forsyth (1854-1935) spent most of his life in Indianapolis and initially trained at the Indiana School of Art. But by 1882 Forsyth wanted to hone his drawing and rendering skills abroad. He enrolled at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany. Fellow Hoosier students in Munich included artists T. C. Steele and J. Ottis Adams, which helped the new arrival’s transition.
Forsyth painted figures like this one while in Munich. One intriguing indication that this piece may have been done during the artist’s Academy period is that a very similar portrait of a remarkably similar sitter was described at auction as "German School, 1891" with the inscription "G. Büttner/Munich '91."
However, while there Forsyth shifted his interest to landscapes under the influence of American artist J. Frank Currier...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Burner Girl or Dripping Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gabriel Mendoza
Burner Girl or Dripping Woman, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
39 x 31 inches
This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Years ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Pair of Indigenous Fillipino Portraits
Located in San Francisco, CA
One might reasonably ask: What were the 16th-century Spanish colonizers thinking when they took on the conquest of the Philippines? The archipelago nation is comprised of 7,641 islan...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
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 Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-Century Portrait of A Woman in A Lace Bonnet
Located in San Francisco, CA
The label on the back has faded with time, but it appears to read “His Great Grandmother’s Portrait presented to George Michael Beauridge on his 18th birthday by his Aunt (?) July 10...
Category
19th Century Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Feathered Hat
Located in San Francisco, CA
There something so poignant about this 40-something woman, painted sometime after World War I by F. Harding. She’s in her plain but “Sunday best” clothes. Yet she unwrapped for this ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
18th to 19th Century English Oil Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th to 19th Century English Oil Portrait
Original oil on canvas
Canvas dimensions 26" wide x 34" high
The frame measures 31.75" wide x 39" hig...
Category
Early 19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iowa City’s Portrait of Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a portrait of renowned English jurist Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780). Any attorney worth their standing with the state bar will recognize from law school days the aut...
Category
1880s Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Samuel Seeberger - Portrait of Louise-Marie of France
By Samuel Seeberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
Samuel Seeberger(French) Portrait of Louise-Marie of France
After Jean-Marc Nattier
Oil on wood panel
11.5" x 15.5" unframed, 15.5" x 19.5" framed
Category
Early 20th Century French School Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
18th - 19th C. Portrait Painting After Petrus Staverenus
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th-19th C. Portrait Painting After Petrus Staverenus depicting man with bottle
Oil on canvas
No visible signature
Wax seal on verso
11" x 14"
Category
18th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Aristocrat with Pet Dog
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th century style, “Young aristocrat with pet dog”. The work is a modern copy of a portrait of Pierre Van Cortlandt, first lord of Van Cortlandt manor in NY. ...
Category
18th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dutch Masters
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Dutch Masters, 2021' a highly collectable 40 x 60 inch oil on canvas painting featuring the Dutch Masters logo from the side of a metal walled panel truck by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Portrait of a Lady
Located in San Francisco, CA
Viewing the delicacy and grace of this portrait, one can appreciate that British artist Rosa Koberwein (1876–1903) was well recognized during her career for producing excellent portr...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century French Portrait of Matron
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century French Portrait of Matron
Oil on Aluminum
No visible signature
10 x 12.5 unframed, 15.5 x 18 framed
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century female portrait, painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century female portrait, painting
No visible signature
Oil on canvas
23.25 x 30 unframed
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goals In Mind
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Goals In Mind' 2020 is a portrait of a man. Acrylic on paper 12.5 x 9.5 inches unframed and 13 x 10 inches framed, Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 and f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
What Did I Say?
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
'What Did I Say?'' 2019 is a portrait of a lady. Acrylic on paper 25.5 x 20 inches unframed and 25.5 x 20 framed, Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 and fea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Portrait of Anna Morell Blix Sjöberg by Astrid Kjellberg (1877-1965, Swedish)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful portrait of Anna Morell Blix Sjöberg painted by Astrid Kjellberg-Juel, 1899
Oil on masonite
15.5" W x 19.5" H
Frame: 18.5" W x 22.75" H
ASTRID KJELLBERG-JUEL (1877 - 1965)
Kjellberg-Juel studied art for Julius Kronberg...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Resurrection
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Resurrection' features the head of a reclining young reddish blond haired women wearing a cloak of lady bugs. It is 6 x 8 inches, unframed, wired and ready to hang. Condition excell...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
A Personal Throne
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
"A Personal Throne", a figurative work in multi color, including mainly gray and blue with red. Acrylic on paper, 30 x 22.5 inches / framed 35 x 27.5 inches. John Casado’s painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Ship Breaking
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Ship Breaking' by Willard Dixon. These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. Dixon changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.”
Willard Dixon
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Portrait Miniature, Young Man in Blue Coat
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Portrait Miniature, Young Man in Blue Coat
As is
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Face No. 319, 2018
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
A face in multi color, including mainly indigo and tan with orange. Acrylic on paper, 14 x 11 inches (unframed). Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 and f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
In the Bathroom
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Portrait of a young woman in the bathroom, painted with oil and gold leaf on paper. The artwork is is 14 x 11 inches. And it is newly and professionally framed with all museum materi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mid 19th Century Woman in Black Dress and Lace Cap Original Oil Painting c.1840
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 19th Century Woman in Black Dress and Lace Cap Original Oil Painting c.1840
A fine portrait of an elegant matron with the lappets of her cap held together by a fancy brooch
Ori...
Category
Mid-19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sitting Duck
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sitting Duck' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with seri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Looking In
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Inspired by the concepts of beauty, adolescence, and time passing, Zolotnotsky’s personal and intimate oil paintings probe deeply into the mystery of the medium, itself. She seeks to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Painting of Young Boy
By Virginia Sevier Rogers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Portrait painting of young boy by California listed artist Virginia Sevier Rogers
1952
Oil on Canvas
Signed and dated lower right
22" W x 27" H unframed, 30" W x 35" H framed
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Child by Henton c.1910
Located in San Francisco, CA
Wonderful antique portrait of a charming young girl c.1910
The painting is created with oils on board. Dimensions 8" x 11.5". The frame measures 13" x 16.5".
The painting is in go...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Union Man (cut out)
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
American Realist Willard Dixon, long admired for his sweeping Western skies and luminous waters, took a surprising and beautiful turn in 2021. He created a small series of life-size ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Self-portrait after Van Gogh, by Henrico (Richio) Galvez
Located in San Francisco, CA
Given Vincent Van Gogh’s mental state when he painted his September 1889 self-portrait, possibly his last, it would be risky business by another artist to produce his own self-portra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paul Marigny Female Portrait Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Classic Paul Marigny (1922-1998, French) painting of 2 young ladies with flowers.
Oil on canvas
Canvas dimensions 24" x 36"
Frame dimensions 30" x 42"
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
William McBride "Daumier Heads" Original Oil on Canvas 20th c.
Located in San Francisco, CA
William McBride (American, 1912-2000)
"Daumier Heads" Original Oil on Canvas 20th c.
Canvas dimensions 41.5" wide x 16.5" high
The frame measures 44.5" wide x 19.5" high
Signed in the lower right corner
Very good vintage condition
Artist, archivist, art collector, and political historian, William McBride's contribution to the city of Chicago was endless.
As a young artist for the Works Projects Administration, Mr. McBride helped lay the groundwork for the South Side Community Art Center, the only remaining art institution sparked by the WPA.
His art collection once included more than 1,000 paintings from African-American and WPA artists, including Charles White, William Carter, Charles Sebree...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century male portrait, painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century male portrait, painting
Oil on canvas
No visible signature,
25 x 30 unframed
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Mid 19th Century Portrait Miniature of a Woman Wearing a Lace Bonnet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine Mid 19th Century Portrait Miniature of a Woman Wearing a Lace Bonnet
Finely detailed portrait miniature of an older woman wearing a lace bonnet.
No visible signature.
Dimensi...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Family
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is a beautiful, original new oil on canvas painting inspired by found black and white photographs that feature the artist’s Italian ancestors. The artwork is painted in a contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
Head No. 11, 2018
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
Head No. 11, 2018' by John Goodman. The artwork is 12 x 12 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new.
Goodman’s signature restrained palette and im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
New Realism Watercolor Portrait of a Young Girl by Siebert
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is not a joyful young girl free of worry. Instead, based on her expression in 1922 when this portrait was done, the sitter’s childhood was effectively over. With one of her two ...
Category
1920s Expressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Original “George and Gracie” Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Where to begin? First, how many couples find stratospheric success sharing both careers and marriage? As comedians? For decades? Perhaps the closest today might be Steve and Nancy Ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
Lovers / oil on wood - twin sisters conjoined surreal two heads
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lovers' a mysterious and fascinating portrayal of a women with two heads and singular body draped in an intricately painted multicolored kimono. The scene includes interior architec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Figure no. 1, 2025
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Figure no. 1, 2025' by John Goodman. The artwork is 40 x 30 inches, professionally framed in maple measuring 40 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sin Título (Untitled)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gabriel Mendoza
Untitled, 1997
Oil on paper
13.70 x 19.50 inches
This one-of-a-kind painting on paper comes unframed and is signed and dated by the artist.
Years ago, while mournin...
Category
1990s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Deity of Human Origin #6
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sergio Nates
Deity of Human Origin #6, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
33 x 20 inches
This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Sergio Nates (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
19th Century Oil Portrait of Two Sisters With Their Dog
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eduard Leonardus Roelant (1842-1883, Belgium)
Outstanding antique oil portrait on wooden panel of two fashionably dressed sisters picking flowers as they walk their dog in a country...
Category
Mid-19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century American Child Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly realistic and charming early 20th century oval portrait of a young child. Oil on board signed and dated top left. Cannot make out signature. Date looks to be 1915. Wonderf...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seated Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Seated Man, 2024
Oil on panel
16 x 16 inches
This is a one-of-a-kind oil painting on panel.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th Century Child and Dog Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous 19th Century oil on canvas portrait of a child with their dog. It is signed and dated 1872 underneath the gold matting. I cannot decipher the signature. Painting could be ei...
Category
1870s Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Oil Painting of Madonna and Child
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Oil Painting of Madonna and Child
Oil on canvas. Approximate dimensions 20" wide x 24" high.
The frame is approximately 22" wide x 2...
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Hopeful Boy
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s the hopeful, intelligent expression that grabs you. Especially in a boy framed by the evidence of abject poverty. How long can he endure? The artist, Roy Little, was described a...
Category
1960s American Modern Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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