England - Portrait Paintings

BEHIND THE MASK Size: 43 x 35 cm (including frame) Oil on board A bold and enigmatic mid-century figurative portrait, executed in oil onto board and dated 1957. The composition dep...

The Cotswolds Stone Wall Builder by John Edwards (England, 1940 - 2020) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 23.5 inches canvas : 23 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, ...

Seated Woman in Thoughtful Mood by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century 13 x 9 inches oil on canvas, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy provenance: from a pri...

Portrait of a Girl holding a Posy. Oil on Panel 17 1/2 x 13 inches 44.4 x 33 cm ABOUT THE ARTIST:  Jacques d'Agar  was a French portrait painter born i...

Fine large 20th century oil on canvas self portrait of the artist as a Big Boss in New York. Inscribed twice with title on the reverse. Excellent quality work by an unknown artist. P...

Portrait of a Young Aristocrat French School, circa 1800's circle of Louis Leopold Boilly (1761-1845) oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 13.5 inches frame: 21 x 18 inches p...

The London Gentleman by Philip Henry Rideout (British, late 19th century/ early 20th century) signed oil on canvas, framed Framed: 17.5 x 14.5 inches Canvas : 12 x 10 inches Provenan...

Oil Painting by Minnie Agnes Cohen The New Bonnet" 1864 - 1940 Figurative scene painter studied at the Royal Academy Schools where she exhibited. Lived in Axminister, worked in St Iv...

Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) Medium: signed verso oil on canvas, unframed Size : 22 x 18.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The painti...

The Artists Model Nude Lady Model French School, circa 1970's oil painting on card, unframed size: 18 x 25.5 inches condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to the sur...

This interesting British Post Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Pauline Glass. The Sitter is Sybyl, details verso. Painted circa 1950 it is a head and sho...

This intimate portrait depicts a bearded monk in profile, rendered with masterful attention to naturalistic detail including weathered skin, expressive eyes, and dishevelled curly ha...

Madonna della Melagrana (Madonna Of The Pomegranate), 17th Century after SANDRO BOTTICELLI (1445-1510) Huge circa 1700 Italian depiction of the Madonna Of The Pomegranate, oil on canvas/tondo. Excellent quality and grand scale version of Botticellis famous work at the Uffizi, Florence. Th work would be significantly enhanced with a professional clean which we can provide a quote for prior to shipping. Presented in an antique gilt oval frame...

Italian School, early 19th century 'Portrait of a Bearded Man' - possibly Saint Peter? oil on board, framed framed: 16 x 13.5 inches board: 12.5 x 9.5 inches provenance: private col...

The Georgian Couple *please note, the previous owner had held the view that the gentleman portrayed as a Royal Navy Captain. English School, circa 1780's period pair (2) oils on ca...

Osman Salifu Motorcycle Love, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 126 x 93 cm 49 5/8 x 36 5/8 in

This accomplished nineteenth-century portrait depicts a monk with his eyes closed in prayer. Dated and indistinctly signed to the lower right. Presented in a vintage black frame with...

The Metal Worker by John Edwards (1940 - 2020) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 23.5 inches canvas : 23 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: very good c...

Remigius Van Leemput Portrait of Nicholas Poyntz 1607-1675 Oil on oak panel, unsigned Image size: 13 x 10 1/4 inches (33 x 26 cm) Contemporary style frame Provenance The Dalva Brot...

This lovely British Old Master portrait oil painting is painted in the manner of Sir Henry Raeburn. Painted circa 1800, the sitter is Anne Neale Tucker Lauzun. She was born in St Geo...

We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...

'Portrait of a Young Man', oil on board, by Peter Robert Keil (1983). Big, bold with brash brush strokes painted in exuberant colours is the tr...

A charming oil sketch of a couple in an embrace. The pair look into each others eyes as they dance in a darkened interior. Unsigned. Presented in a swept gilt frame with ornate folia...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a co...

Head and Shoulders Portrait of a Man French School, signed and dated 1957 sanguine chalk/ pastel on paper stuck on board board: 13 x 10.25 inches Provenance: private collection, Pari...

Gerald Goddard Jackson 1878-1941 Self Portrait Oil on canvas Image size: 23½ x 19½ inches Original frame Jackson was born at Duddington, Northamptonshire on 5 March 1878. He enrolled at the Slade School of Art in 1893 where he studied alongside fellow students Wyndham Lewis, Orpen, Gertler, Nash and Nevinson. He left the Slade in 1899 in order to travel to Canada, USA and Mexico, spending three years in Italy. In 1911, he joined the Army. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, his battalion was sent to France. He was captured in 1916 and was held at various German prisoner of war camps, largely at Schwarmstedt in Saxony. Whilst in captivity he befriended the poet Frederick William Harvey...

The Death Of General Wolfe,The Battle of Quebec 1759, 18th Century after of BENJAMIN WEST (1738-1820) Large 18th Century scene of the Death Of General Wolfe, oil on panel. Excellen...

An evocative 19th-century portrait depicting a pensive gentleman in profile. The artist has captured the gentleman in delicate detail with sensitive brushstrokes. Unsigned. Inscribed...

English School, (circa 1600) Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke Oil on panel, oval Image size: 29¼ x 23⅞ inches Painted wooden frame Provenance: 176, Collection of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick. The Trustees of the Lord Brooks’ Settlement, (removed from Warwick Castle). Sotheby’s, London, 22nd March 1968, lot 81. Painted onto wooden panel, this portrait shows a dark haired gentleman in profile sporting an open white shirt. On top of this garments is a richly detailed black cloak, decorated with gold thread and lined with a sumptuous crimson lining. With the red silk inside it’s all very expensive and would fall under sumptuary laws – so this is a nobleman of high degree. It’s melancholic air conforms to the contemporary popularity of this very human condition, evident in fashionable poetry and music of the period. In comparison to our own modern prejudices, melancholy was associated with creativity in this period. This portrait appeared in the earliest described list of pictures of Warwick castle dating to 1762. Compiled by collector and antiquary Sir William Musgrave ‘taken from the information of Lord & Lady Warwick’ (Add. MSS, 5726 fol. 3) is described; ‘8. Earl of Essex – an original by Zuccharo – seen in profile with black hair. Holding a black robe across his breast with his right hand.’ As tempting as it is to imagine that this is a portrait of Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl Essex, we might take this with a pinch of salt. Its identification with this romantic and fatal Elizabethan might well have been an attempt to add romance to Warwick Castle’s walls. It doesn’t correspond all that well with Essex’s portraits around 1600 after his return from Cadiz. Notably, this picture was presumably hung not too far away from the castle’s two portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. The first, and undoubtedly the best, being the exquisite coronation portrait that was sold by Lord Brooke in the late 1970s and now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. The second, described as being ‘a copy from the original at Ld Hydes’, has yet to resurface. The portrait eventually ended up being hung in the State Bedroom of Warwick Castle. Archival documents present one other interesting candidate. The Greville family’s earliest inventory of paintings, made in 1630 at their home Brooke House in Holborn, London, describes five portraits of identified figures. All five belonged to the courtier, politician and poet Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628), 1st Baron Brooke, and were hung in the ‘Gallerie’ of Brooke House behind yellow curtains. One of them was described as being of ‘Lord of Pembrooke’, which is likely to have been William Herbert (1580-1630), 3rd Earl of Pembroke. William was the eldest son of Greville’s best friend’s sister Mary Sidney, and was brought up in the particularly literary and poetically orientated household which his mother had supported. Notably, the 3rd Earl was one of the figures that Shakespeare’s first folio was dedicated to in 1623. The melancholic air to the portrait corresponds to William’s own pretensions as a learned and poetic figure. The richness of the robe in the painting, sporting golden thread and a spotted black fabric, is indicative of wealth beyond that of a simple poet or actor. The portrait’s dating to around the year 1600 might have coincided with William’s father death and his own rise to the Pembroke Earldom. This period of his life too was imbued with personal sadness, as an illicit affair with a Mary Fitton had resulted in a pregnancy and eventual banishment by Elizabeth I to Wilton after a short spell in Fleet Prison. His illegitimate son died shortly after being born. Despite being a close follower of the Earl of Essex, William had side-stepped supporting Devereux in the fatal uprising against the Queen and eventually regained favour at the court of the next monarch James I. His linen shirt is edged with a delicate border of lace and his black cloak is lined on the inside with sumptuous scarlet and richly decorated on the outside with gold braid and a pattern of embroidered black spots. Despite the richness of his clothes, William Herbert has been presented in a dishevelled state of semi-undress, his shirt unlaced far down his chest with the ties lying limply over his hand, indicating that he is in a state of distracted detachment. It has been suggested that the fashion for melancholy was rooted in an increase in self-consciousness and introspective reflection during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In contemporary literature melancholy was said to be caused by a plenitude of the melancholy humor, one of the four vital humors, which were thought to regulate the functions of the body. An abundance of the melancholia humor was associated with a heightened creativity and intellectual ability and hence melancholy was linked to the notion of genius, as reflected in the work of the Oxford scholar Robert Burton, who in his work ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’, described the Malcontent as ‘of all others [the]… most witty, [who] causeth many times divine ravishment, and a kind of enthusiamus… which stirreth them up to be excellent Philosophers, Poets and Prophets.’ (R. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, London, 1621 in R. Strong, ‘Elizabethan Malady: Melancholy in Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraits’, Apollo, LXXIX, 1964). Melancholy was viewed as a highly fashionable affliction under Elizabeth I, and her successor James I, and a dejected demeanour was adopted by wealthy young men, often presenting themselves as scholars or despondent lovers, as reflected in the portraiture and literature from this period. Although the sitter in this portrait is, as yet, unidentified, it seems probable that he was a nobleman with literary or artistic ambitions, following in the same vain as such famous figures as the aristocratic poet and dramatist, Edward de Vere...

The Hounds In Full Cry, 19th Century attributed to Thomas BLINKS (1860-1912) Large 19th Century English Hunting scene of the hounds in full cry, oil on canvas attributed to Thomas ...

A superb signed and dated 1946 French naïf oil on canvas portrait of a fisherman holding his net. Wonderful study of the fisherman wearing a white suit and standing next to typicall...

Italian painting of Alphonsus Liguori in French Neo-Gothic Frame Italian and French, Late 18th and 19th Century Frame: Height 61cm, width 39cm, depth 6cm Panel: Height 28cm, width 22...

Study Of Lions, 19th Century by M C FEHR (German) Large 19th Century German School study of Lions before their den, oil on canvas by M C Fehr. Excellent quality and condition early...

Portrait of A Girl, 19th Century Italian / Spanish School Large 19th Century portrait of a young lady, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition oval study of the young girl wearing a green dress, red beaded necklace...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1900's, signed Title: Portrait of a Young Lady wearing a hat Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 18 x 14.5 inches Painting: 16 x 13 inches ...

'Boy with Anemones', oil on cardstock paper, by Raymond Debiève (1965). Here the artist paints a young boy having his breakfast with a beautiful bouquet of an...

Portrait Of A Black Girl With A White Doll, 19th Century by L P Burey Large 19th Century American School portrait of a young black girl sitting with a white doll, oil on canvas by ...

""Portrait Of A Gentleman, Dated 1943 - By Marion Mroz (1892-1976)"" Portrait of a Gentleman, dated 1943 by Marion Mroz (1892-1976) ONE OF A PAIR (THE OTHER IS DE LA FEMME DE L'HOM...

Profile Portrait by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) oil painting on board, unframed board: 24 x 18 inches condition: overall very good proven...

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1750-1811) was an English portrait painter and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Justly celebrated in his lifetime he won several...

Circle of Mary Beale 1633 - 1699 Portrait of a Gentleman Oil on canvas Image size: 30 x 25 inches Contemporary gilt frame Mary Beale was the daughter of a Suffolk clergyman.She married Charles Beale...

A beautiful mid 20th century French modernist oil on canvas board depciting a head study of a boy. Excellent quality work in very good original condition. Indistinctly signed lower ...

Fisherman Portrait by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 47.5 x 24 inches condition: overall very good, minor surface s...

19th century French oil painting of a lady and a parrot by Semenowsky French, 1891 Panel: Height 56cm, width 38cm Frame: Height 68cm, width 49.5cm, width 3cm This wonderful oil on p...

Oil on oak panel Image size: 25 1/2 x 19 inches (37.5 x 27 inches) 18th Century Auricular gilt frame Provenance New York private collection This portrait of the King Edward VI depicts the boy-king standing in a black and gold embroidered doublet, wearing a jewelled cap. King Edward holds a staff with a globus cruciger set on the table beside him. No expense has been spared in the making of this piece, with gold leaf being applied in many areas to give the effect of the costume's gold embroidery, chain of office and other metal accessories. As the precious male heir to the Tudor dynasty...

'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 dated 1973 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 20 x 25.5 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours ...

Portrait of a Mother & Baby, 19th Century School of Friedrich August Von Kaulbach (1850-1920) Fine large 19th Century portrait of a mother and b...

"Portrait of a Young Lady" by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002) signed, oil painting on board, unframed painting: 15.75 x 12.75 inches provenance: the artists estate, France Origina...

"The Bust Portrait" French School, 19th century. charcoal drawing on paper, unframed. painting: 23.5 x 17.75 inches Condition report: The painting is in good and sound condition, ...

Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) Medium: oil on board, unframed Size : 19 x 25 inches double sided Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The painting ...

Oil on oak panel, inscribed top left ‘AETATIS SUAE 32’ Image size: 27 x 35 inches (68.5 x 89 cm) Contemporary style handmade frame This is a portrait of a medical figure from the ea...

Portrait of a Gentleman in Formal Attire French School, 19th century oil on board, framed framed: 17 x 14 inches board : 13 x 10.5 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris, Franc...

The Injured Companion, 19th Century English School Large 19th Century English School portrait of a young girl holding an injured puppy, oil on canvas. Beautifully painted and ende...

We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. “Last Night, Shaftesbury Avenue” by Michael Alford is a striking oil on canvas tha...

European artist, 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 28 x 38 inches provenance: private collection, Wiltshire, England condition: very good and sound condition, stai...

Nude Girl In The Forest, 19th Century attributed to Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905) Large 19th French Impressionist Portrait of a nude girl in a forest, oil on canvas attributed to...

A striking oil portrait by the German painter Emil Stratmann (1890-1974), depicting a bearded gentleman with long, dark hair. Within a few careful brushstrokes, Emil masters the sitt...

Original French Artwork by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014) original pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed size: 11 x 17 inches condition: very good provenance: from the artists e...

PORTRAIT IN SEPIA Size: 72 x 56 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A large and striking mid century modernist portrait in oil, painted onto board. With a very distinctive dark sepia...

The Couple French artist, mid 20th century signed and dated 59' signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 27 x 23inches canvas: 24 x 20 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condi...