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Portrait Paintings For Sale
The Samaritan by Joachim van der Vlugt - Contemporary religious themed painting
Located in Paris, FR
The Samaritan is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 170 × 140 cm (66.9 × 55.1 in).
The artwork ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Valentin by Christophe Dupety - Portrait painting, young man, yellow and purple
Located in Paris, FR
Valentin is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Christophe Dupety, dimensions are 80 × 80 cm (31.5 × 31.5 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No. 196 by Hongyu Zhang - Contemporary portrait painting, blue, abstract
By Zhang Hongyu
Located in Paris, FR
No. 196 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Hongyu Zhang. The painting is made with mixed technique on canvas, dimensions are 90 cm × 70 cm (35.4 × 27.6 in).
The artwork is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Figurative_Animals_Birds From The Wind_2023_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Birds From The Wind"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
49.5 x 49.5 in. Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait Of Horatio Nelson Attributed To Lemuel Abbott
Located in New Orleans, LA
Attributed to Lemuel Abbott
1760-1803 | English
Portrait of Horatio Nelson
Oil on canvas
This previously unknown portrait is an important discovery in British Naval history. In Admiral Lord Nelson's illustrious and well-studied life, there existed a "silent period" spanning 16 years during which no known portraits of Nelson existed. The discovery of this 1790 portrait, rendered just before his reentry into the Navy, is a significant development for Nelson scholars, adding new insight into the leader's life prior to his legendary command as Admiral of the British Navy.
Almost certainly painted by Lemuel Abbott, the official portraitist of Admiral Nelson, the rendering depicts the naval titan in casual dress. This is one of the two final depictions of Nelson before he acquired the war-inflicted injuries that marked his later years. In 1790, Britain was at peace, and Lord Nelson found himself residing in Burnham Thorpe with his newlywed wife, Frances. Having served with great distinction in South America and the West Indies, he garnered much local acclaim. Yet, the uncertainty of returning to the sea weighed heavily on his mind. At the age of thirty, he lived the life of a country gentleman managing his estate. Only one other much smaller portrait of Nelson in civilian attire exists, a much smaller rendering from 1800 currently held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Compelling and atmospheric, the oil on canvas offers viewers a rare glimpse into the visage of a youthful and resolute Nelson, a man driven by an unwavering desire to forge his reputation in the art of naval warfare. This portrait had long been believed by the Nelson family to portray Edmund Nelson, Horatio Nelson's father. When connoisseur Jeremy Knight acquired this treasure directly from the Nelson family, he postulated that the work actually depicted the famed Admiral and not his father, as it was painted around 1790, and the elder Edmund Nelson would have been 68 years old at that time. Knight then hired the renowned Nelson scholar Martin Downer, the former Sotheby's expert and author of the bestselling books Nelson's Purse and Nelson's Lost Jewel, to confirm his hunch. It has now been confirmed by Martin Downer that this portrait is the missing...
Category
18th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Madonna Child Maria Sassoferrato Paint Oil on canvas 17th Century Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giovan Battista Salvi known as 'il Sassoferrato' (1609 - 1685) circle/ workshop
Madonna with sleeping child
Oil on canvas
84 x 66 cm - Framed (19th century) 112 x 95 cm
The paintin...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guardian Angel Ridolfi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17/18th Century Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antichità Castelbarco SRLS is proud to present:
Claudio Ridolfi (Verona, c. 1570 - Corinaldo, 1644) Workshop/circle
The Guardian Angel in Glory
Oil on canvas
124 x 84 cm. - With fr...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
woman in white oil on canvas painting portrait
By Ignasi Mundó
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ignasi Mundó Marcet (1918-2012) - woman in white - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 73x60 cm.
Frame size 76x63 cm.
MUNDO Ignasi
Ignasi Mundó trained at the School of La Lonja, with Joa...
Category
1940s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Womanhood" Painting 47" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Womanhood" Painting 47" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old masters.
Abdel Malak textured oils are a celebratio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
Looking Through Love
Located in Chicago, IL
Rick Beerhorst
Looking Through Love
oil on canvas
13h x 13w in
33.02h x 33.02w cm
RIB008
Rick Beerhorst
B. 1960
Education
1987 University of Illino...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
St Joseph Paint Oil on canvas Lombard School 17th Century Religious Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Lombard School of the 17th century
St. Joseph with Flower Stick
Oil on oval canvas
92 x 70 cm.
In antique frame 106 x 85 cm.
The work shows us an intense image of St. Joseph, portr...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
No.215 by Zhang Hongyu - Contemporary portrait painting, abstract, face
By Zhang Hongyu
Located in Paris, FR
No. 215 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Hongyu Zhang. The painting is made with Indian ink and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas, dimensions...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, India Ink, Canvas
A Woman Holding Space - A Woman, Cat and Bird in Front of City Backdrop
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting measures 45 X 45 cm and is painted on stretched linen. The cat and the bird, typically mortal enemies are held together by this noble woman. This becomes a metaphor for how opposed aspects of our inner nature coexist and add dimension and richness to our personalities. –Rick Beerhorst...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ratzinger Chocolat by Christophe Dupety - Portrait painting, pope, abstract
Located in Paris, FR
Ratzinger Chocolat is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Christophe Dupety, dimensions are 80 × 80 cm (31.5 × 31.5 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venetian Venus - Original Oil on Canvas, Framed in Heavy Wooden Frame
Located in Chicago, IL
Rick Beerhorst
Venetian Venus
oil on canvas
23.50h x 23.50w in
59.69h x 59.69w cm
RIB006
Rick Beerhorst
B. 1960
Education
1987 University of Illinois...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tribute to Michelangelo III by Zhang Hongyu - Contemporary portrait painting
By Zhang Hongyu
Located in Paris, FR
Tribute to Michelangelo III is a unique painting by contemporary artist Hongyu Zhang. The painting is made with Indian ink, pastel, acrylic, engraving and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pastel, Acrylic, Cardboard, Engraving
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
Unemployed
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed lower right
Provenance: E...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Norah by Guy Oberson - Contemporary figurative painting, portrait, woman
By Guy Oberson
Located in Paris, FR
Norah is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Guy Oberson, dimensions are 160 cm × 130 cm (63 × 51.2 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with a cer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In The Sun by Christophe Dupety - Male Nude Painting, Contemporary
Located in Paris, FR
In the Sun (2018) by French contemporary artist Christophe Dupety. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm.
In his Human Figures series, Christophe Dupety shows us some bodies which aspect remind...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Armour II by J. van der Vlugt - portrait painting, masked figure
Located in Paris, FR
The Amour II is a painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt.
Oil on wood, 110 x 110 cm. This work is signed, sold unframed.
This portrait represents a man wearing a gas ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Anticipation" Oil painting 39" x 39" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"Anticipation" Oil painting 39" x 39" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three decades and has notabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Small Room" Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Small Room" Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube.
A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous, feminine, provocative...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wild by Christophe Dupety - Male nude painting, oil on canvas, contemporary
Located in Paris, FR
Wild (2015) by French contemporary artist Christophe Dupety. Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.
In this series simply entitled "Nus" (nudes), the artist is superimposing and juxtaposing tw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dogon by Christophe Dupety - Female Nude Painting, Contemporary
Located in Paris, FR
Dogon (2018) by French contemporary artist Christophe Dupety. Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm.
In his Human Figures series, Christophe Dupety shows us some bodies which aspect reminds more...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No. 120 by ZHANG Hongyu - Contemporary Portrait Painting
By Zhang Hongyu
Located in Paris, FR
No.120 (2010) is a painting by Paris-based Chinese contemporary artist ZHANG Hongyu from the “Portrait” series.
India ink, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 116 x 81 cm. Signed, sold fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Ink, Acrylic
Unleashed by Christophe Dupety - Male Nude Painting, Contemporary
Located in Paris, FR
Unleashed (2018) by French contemporary artist Christophe Dupety. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm.
In his Human Figures series, Christophe Dupety shows us some bodies which aspect reminds...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribute to Michelangelo IV by Zhang Hongyu - mixed media and engraving, blue
By Zhang Hongyu
Located in Paris, FR
Tribute to Michelangelo IV is a painting by Paris-based Chinese contemporary artist ZHANG Hongyu which represents the famous David by Michelangelo, exhibited at the Galleria dell’Academia of Firenze in Italy. Fascinated by this sculpture, Hongyu Zhang...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard, Engraving, Charcoal
Jaipur by Christophe Dupety - Contemporary painting, India
Located in Paris, FR
Jaipur (2004) by French contemporary artist Christophe Dupety. Oil on canvas, H 51.2 x W 76.8 in (130 x 195 cm). Unique work sold unframed with a certificate of authenticity.
The art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Black Robe” Oil Painting 63" x 47" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Black Robe” Oil Painting 63" x 47" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Pastel on paper. Framed.
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws up...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Enigma - Surreal Scene With Figure in Muted Greys, Original Oil on Canvas Framed
By John Seubert
Located in Chicago, IL
An enigma by definition is a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. Such is the subject matter of John Seubert, aka John Grey's painting of the same name. The sphynx-like figure stares out at the viewer holding what appears to be a large bowl. The surreal scene is framed in a repurposed frame that the artist has distressed and painted. It measures 25.5h x 21.5w inches.
John Seubert
Enigma, 2023
oil on canvas
20h x 16w in
50.80h x 40.64w cm
JSE076
John Seubert
b. 1958, Chicago, IL
In the early Nineties, John Seubert was living in a former hotel in a high-rise building on St. James Place in Chicago. The apartment was tiny, as hotel rooms tend to be, and clad with paper-thin walls allowing sound to pass from one apartment to the other. At the time, John’s artwork consisted of pounding copper sheets into tables which was a noisy endeavor to say the least. Following several noise complaints from the neighbors, John had a dream that he was living in a ramshackle house but with plenty of room to work and no attached neighbors. The following day after lunching at the McDonalds in Lincoln Park, John wandered the neighborhood a came upon a shabby, falling-down old Victorian house. He located the real estate agent, put in an offer, and weeks later was pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings to his new home.
This 144-year-old Painted Lady provided a blank canvas for this inimitable artist. For many years the house remained so empty that John was able to ride his Japanese fold up bike throughout the 1st floor. “Some people want to have sex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th century Allegory of the four Elements - Frans Francken the Younger Flemish
Located in Antwerp, BE
Very fine 17th century Flemish old master "Allegory of the four elements" attributed to Frans Francken the Younger
The figures are the Nereid Amphitrite, holding a coral and represe...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Dreamcatcher" Mixed media Painting 79" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Dreamcatcher" Mixed media Painting 79" x 24" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old mast...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
Portrait of a Beauty by William Clarke Wontner
By William Clarke Wontner
Located in New Orleans, LA
William Clarke Wontner
1857-1930 British
Portrait of a Beauty
Signed and dated "W. Wontner 1918" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
Classical beauty a...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Portrait Turquoise” Oil Painting 63" x 47" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait Turquoise” Oil Painting 63" x 47" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Pastel on paper. Framed.
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Antique Dog Painting: Cane Corso ("Bodyguard Dog") Jules Chardigny, circa 1870
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Painting of a Hunting Dog
Jules Chardigny (1849-1892)
Circa 1870
Oil on wood panel
Housed within its beautiful and original ornate original gi...
Category
1860s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fox
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career.
Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"La Petite Fille Orange" Painting 25" x 25" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"La Petite Fille Orange" Painting 25" x 25" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Techniques
Bakhoum often paints on canvases that have been prepared with various materials. She generall...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass, Pastel, Mixed Media
Inner Bliss, Three Women and a Dog, Interior Scene, Bright Colors Oil on Canvas
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Sometimes all that we need is to kick back and enjoy the peace that comes with just being close to one another. In Bruno Surdo's piece entitled "Inner Bliss", we can understand this...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Profil Orange" Painting in Glass Frame 25" x 25" in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Profil Orange" Painting in Glass Frame 25" x 25" in by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Techniques
Bakhoum often paints on canvases that have been prepared with various materials. She gene...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass, Pastel, Mixed Media
"Circle of Life" Mixed media Painting 47" x 71" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Circle of Life" Mixed media Painting 47" x 71" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Mixed media on wood
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old masters.
Abdel Malak textured oils are a celebration of the female identity in every sense of the word. His beautiful faces and suave figures grace the canvases together embracing our Egyptian architectural monuments creating a powerful dialogue between women’s identity, her rights, her suffering and our heritage and what it holds in its historical meanings and the deteriorating state.
Graduate from the faculty of Fine Arts, Minia University, Graphic Design Department. Illustrator for Sabah El Kheir & Rosalyoussef, Egyptian local magazines.
Practice Sculpture.
Participant in the 1st Child’s Biennale workshop “Fantasia 1”, Cairo 2003.
Won the silver medal in the International Competition of “SHANKERS World Association”, India 1993.
Exhibitions:
Private Art Works Exhibition at Cairo Gallery, 2001.
Public Exhibition at Ahmed Shawky Museum, Cairo 2001.
Public Exhibition at Mahmoud Said...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
"Girl with Fish" Painting Acrylic and Inks 16" x 12" inch by Ahmed Saber
By Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"Girl with Fish" Painting Acrylic and Inks 16" x 12" inch by Ahmed Saber
Comes framed as shown on second photo
AHMED SABER - BIO
Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist based in Luxor i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink, Acrylic
"Self Portrait" Acrylic on canvas Painting 46" x 78" inch by Ty Joseph
By Ty Joseph
Located in Culver City, CA
"Self Portrait" Acrylic on canvas Painting 46" x 78" inch by Ty Joseph
From 7 L's series
2018
* * * The meaning of L series * * *
Although influenced by Pop Art, with its bold, ey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Self Portrait" Acrylic on canvas Painting 36" x 36" inch by Ty Joseph
By Ty Joseph
Located in Culver City, CA
"Self Portrait" Acrylic on canvas Painting 36" x 36" inch by Ty Joseph
From 7 L's series
2017
acrylic on canvas
36" x 36" inch
* * * The meaning of L series * * *
Although influen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"BASQUIAT" Acrylic on canvas Painting 36'x36' inch by Ty Joseph
By Ty Joseph
Located in Culver City, CA
"BASQUIAT" Acrylic on canvas Painting 36'x36' inch by Ty Joseph
From 7 L's series
2019
acrylic on canvas
36" x 36" inch
* * * The meaning of L series * *...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Hockney" Acrylic on canvas Painting 36" x 36" inch by Ty Joseph
By Ty Joseph
Located in Culver City, CA
"Hockney" Acrylic on canvas Painting 36" x 36" inch by Ty Joseph
From 7 L's series
2018
acrylic on canvas
36" x 36"
* * * The meaning of L series * * *
Although influenced by Pop...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Warhol" Acrylic on canvas Painting 36" x 36 inch by Ty Joseph
By Ty Joseph
Located in Culver City, CA
"Warhol" Acrylic on canvas Painting 36" x 36 inch by Ty Joseph
From 7 L's series
2018
acrylic on canvas
36" x 36" inch
* * * The meaning of L series * * ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique Dog Portrait of "Mignonne" dated 1876 by Louis Eugène Bourgeois
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting of "Mignonne" dated 1876
Louis Eugène Bourgeois (French 1831-1878)
Pastel on cardboard
Signed lower left "E. Bourgeois"
Inscribed upper right "Mignonne."
Rever...
Category
1870s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
English mid century oil painting Portrait of cute Corgi dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a cute Corgi.
Paintings of this breed are very rare and very collected.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
goddess oil on canvas painting hindu mythology
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Tuya Natsagdorj (Mongolia 1970) - Goddess - oil on canvas
Oil measures 65x54 cm.
Frameless.
Natsagdorj Tuya is a female artist who graduated from the kyiv School of Theater Arts in Ukraine and the Kyoto School of Art in Japan. Popular painter in the United States and Japan. In 2006 he participated in the exhibition "Mongolian art...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil On Canvas Portrait Of The 18th Century Entourage De Largilliere Unframed
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas Portrait Of The Eighteenth Century Entourage De Largilliere Unframed"
18th Century French School, Surroundings of Nicolas de Largilliere
Presumed portrait of Pierre C...
Category
1740s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Locked in Love Huge French Modernist Original Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Locked in Love, Abstract Portrait, Original Oil Painting, Signed
By French artist Elisabeth Dujarric, b.1930-2005
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 46 x 35 inches
Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière...
Category
1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
self portrait with woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Moscardó (1953) - Self-portrait with a woman - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 92x73 cm.
Frameless
Barcelona, 1953
Painter, sculptor and draftsman of ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Portrait of a Bulldog: "Big Ben" by Arthur Wardle (England, 1864-1949)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Portrait of a Bulldog "Big Ben in Garden"
Arthur Wardle (England, 1864-1949)
Pastel on paper
Circa 1900
13 x 9 inches
Though he made his reputation with large-scale oils, Wardle is now remembered for his pastels, Christopher Wood...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pastel, Laid Paper
Ballerina
Located in Sint-Martens-Latem, BE
In her portraits, Paulina Archambault (1976, lives and works in Viriginia/USA) searches for the purest human emotions. To do so, she likes to reach back to her childhood. By being as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
‘Bonding‘ Original Figurative Painting Acrylic on Canvas by Innocent Chikezie
Located in Carmel, CA
Innocent is an artist who harnesses the beauty of colours to create a certain brilliance in his work that portrays the graceful ambience of the African culture.
Using his dexterity a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Antique Dog Painting “The Bulldog and the Fly” ca. 1900 Auguste Vimar
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting
"The Bulldog and the Fly"
Auguste Vimar (France, 1851-1916)
Gouache on paper
Circa 1900
7 1/4 x 9 3/4 (13 1/2 x 16 frame) inches
An amusing study of a bulldog in a stable on a horse blanket staring at a bothersome fly.
Auguste Vimar was a French painter, sculptor, designer and illustrator though he is best known for his talents as an illustrator. He illustrated great classics like La Fontaine's Fables or books by his friends, such as L'Arche de Noé by Paul Guigou...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Sporting painting of a detailed close up of English Pointer pointing at a bird
Located in Charleston, US
This elegant sporting painting "Catch The Scent" by Beth de Loiselle is a detailed close up of an English Pointer pointing at a bird while on the hunt....
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century Irish or English Antique portrait of two dogs, waterdogs
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding portrait of two dogs.
Sam Spode was an Irish painter of horse and dog portraits from the late 18th century through the early 19th century. His dog portraits are very rar...
Category
1830s Folk Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings
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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