Skip to main content

Portrait Paintings

to
2,104
6,323
5,953
1,577
10,188
6,645
5,095
3,270
1,417
1,365
628
409
338
231
199
12,270
6,446
6,178
Portrait Paintings For Sale
"The Last Remaining Light, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daire Lynch's "The Last Remaining Light" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blonde haired feminine figure clasping her hand while cast in...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Hand 1" Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Matthew Alfonso Durante's "Hand 1" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a pink hued hand in an unusual gesture with a dark background.
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Black Frank White (Notorious BIG)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Orit Fuchs: Vivid 47 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 40/40”
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression‭. ‬Her medium spans the gamut‭ - ‬sculptures‭, ‬pa...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Giclée

"Crawlers", Neue Constructivist Semi-Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork is from a new series of Antony Squizzato, which is somehow an evolution of the artist's famous Kisses series, marked by the confinement periods and the notion of isolati...
Category

2010s Constructivist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Missed Call
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic spray paint and mixed media
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

50 Shades of K-Dot
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic Paint and Spray Paint on Canvas.
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Russian Girl with an Itch (SMALENSK)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Catulle-Mendes
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Dimensions listed include the frame
Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel

CLAUDINE RIBOULET (French 1924-2013) LARGE SIGNED OIL - PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Claudine Riboulet (French 1924-2013), signed Title: Portrait of a Woman Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed, signed. Size: ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Composition with faces. 2013. Paper, collage, 26x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Composition with faces by Peteris Taukulis - 2013. Paper, collage, 26x20 cm
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Orit Fuchs: Vivid 101B - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 35.5/47”
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression‭. ‬Her medium spans the gamut‭ - ‬sculptures‭, ‬pa...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Giclée

"Float Away from This Land", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Pegah Samaie's (CA based) "Float Away from This Land" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman cradling an origami boat as other origami...
Category

2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

BANANARAMA - Pop art Painting with Pink Lips and Banana, Blue, Yellow
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
BANANARAMA by Elizabeth Winnel is compositionally similar to work she has created in the past- a set of lips at the center of the painting, mouth open...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Orit Fuchs: Vivid 37 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 40/40”
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression‭. ‬Her medium spans the gamut‭ - ‬sculptures‭, ‬pa...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Giclée

Orit Fuchs: Vivid 58 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 40/40”
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression‭. ‬Her medium spans the gamut‭ - ‬sculptures‭, ‬pa...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Giclée

Orit Fuchs: Vivid 57 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 40/40”
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression‭. ‬Her medium spans the gamut‭ - ‬sculptures‭, ‬pa...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Giclée

Portrait of young boy on driftwood: 'Nepal (Body and Soul)'
Located in New York, NY
Francesco Minuti, is an Italian Painter. ( Cosenza, 11/05/1992 ) Minuti, after his Diploma, graduated at the Academy of fine Arts. As a painter, he ha...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Driftwood, Oil

Richard Whalen "Carmen Amaya" Original Oil Painting C.1990
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Whalen (American, 1926-2009) "Carmen Amaya" Original Oil Painting c.1990 Created on a wooden ply panel with rope for hanging The artist us...
Category

Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Plywood

Orit Fuchs: Vivid 100-Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 46.6/46.5”
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv‭, ‬a storyteller with a deep‭, ‬pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression‭. ‬Her medium spans the gamut‭ - ‬sculptures‭, ‬pa...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Giclée

"Floating Comma", Neue Constructivist Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork makes a great diptych with "Salvatory Outburst" (see pictures). In French the name means "floating point", as in computing, however the French uses the comma as a decim...
Category

2010s Constructivist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Salutary Outburst", Neue Constructivist Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork makes a great diptych with "Floating Comma" (see pictures). This item is not framed. Antony Squizzato is a talented French artist who likes to experiment with differen...
Category

2010s Constructivist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of young boy on driftwood: 'Sydney (Body and Soul)'
Located in New York, NY
Francesco Minuti, is an Italian Painter. ( Cosenza, 11/05/1992 ) Minuti, after his Diploma, graduated at the Academy of fine Arts. As a painter, he ha...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Driftwood, Oil

Farmers - Oil Painting by Roberto De Francisci - 2011
Located in Roma, IT
Farmers (original Italian title "Momenti Preziosi") is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 2011 by the Italian artist Roberto De Francisci...
Category

2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Glass, Oil

Collective farmer. 1980, watercolor on paper, 57, 5x58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Collective farmer. 1980, watercolor on paper, 57,5x58 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions,...
Category

1980s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Woman with Bird, Acrylic on Canvas, Black by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gouranga Beshai - Woman with Bird - 32 x 40 inches ( Diptych ) Acrylic , Charcoal & Mixed Media on Canvas ** Shipped in roll form. Style : Drawing inspiration from Hemen Mazumda...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 13 x 10 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used i...
Category

Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used in t...
Category

Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 10 x 13 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used i...
Category

Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 dated 1973 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 15 x 22 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours u...
Category

Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 19.75 x 25.75 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours...
Category

Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 20 x 13 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used in this ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Indian making smoke signs - 21st Century, Acrylic Figurative Painting, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
RAFAŁ BOJDYS (born in 1967) Bojdys studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Graphics Department in Katowice. He graduated from project atelier of Tomasz Jury and painting...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Satu Sisi
Located in Paris, IDF
Kusbudiyanto is an Indonesian artist born in 1969 who lives & works in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Dynamic self-portrait. 1972. Cardboard, oil, 37x36, 5 cm + gift book
Located in Riga, LV
Dynamic self-portrait. 1970, cardboard, oil, 37x36,5 cm + gift book about artist Vladimirs Glušenkovs Painting published in the book "Vladimirs Glušenkovs", Ed .: Neputns, 2018, on L...
Category

1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Oil

"Muse of Transition", Encaustic, Oil, and Paper on Wood
Located in Detroit, MI
Celebrating our common colors as well as our diversity is Linden Godlove’s latest series of encaustics, “The Muses.” The paintings are modeled after icons, with a direct gaze that hearkens a response to their spirit, to find company in their character. This particular piece is the "Muse of Transition" and is part of a set of nine that are sold separately from one another. Encaustic painting is an ancient art form (some early icons are encaustic), where hot wax is mixed with pigment and resin, and painted while liquid. Throughout the process, everything is repeatedly fused with fire and sometimes things melt in an unintended direction. Linden’s process involves repeatedly carving parts out and filling them back in, so the works are splayed out in a loose application of hot liquid, then cut back, then washed over with brushes of hot wax again. It’s a combination of chaos and control. The series draws inspiration from women all over the globe, as originally photographed by Mihaela Noroc for her book The Atlas of Beauty. A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go towards her project. While internationally influenced, the pieces were painted, scraped, and carved at the artist’s hundred year old Detroit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

"Muse of Wonder", Encaustic, Oil, and Paper on Wood
Located in Detroit, MI
Celebrating our common colors as well as our diversity is Linden Godlove’s latest series of encaustics, “The Muses.” The paintings are modeled after icons, with a direct gaze that hearkens a response to their spirit, to find company in their character. This particular piece is the "Muse of Wonder" and is part of a set of nine that are sold separately from one another. Encaustic painting is an ancient art form (some early icons are encaustic), where hot wax is mixed with pigment and resin, and painted while liquid. Throughout the process, everything is repeatedly fused with fire and sometimes things melt in an unintended direction. Linden’s process involves repeatedly carving parts out and filling them back in, so the works are splayed out in a loose application of hot liquid, then cut back, then washed over with brushes of hot wax again. It’s a combination of chaos and control. The series draws inspiration from women all over the globe, as originally photographed by Mihaela Noroc for her book The Atlas of Beauty. A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go towards her project. While internationally influenced, the pieces were painted, scraped, and carved at the artist’s hundred year old Detroit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

"Muse of Confidence", Encaustic, Oil, and Paper on Wood
Located in Detroit, MI
Celebrating our common colors as well as our diversity is Linden Godlove’s latest series of encaustics, “The Muses.” The paintings are modeled after icons, with a direct gaze that hearkens a response to their spirit, to find company in their character. This particular piece is the "Muse of Confidence" and is part of a set of nine that are sold separately from one another. Encaustic painting is an ancient art form (some early icons are encaustic), where hot wax is mixed with pigment and resin, and painted while liquid. Throughout the process, everything is repeatedly fused with fire and sometimes things melt in an unintended direction. Linden’s process involves repeatedly carving parts out and filling them back in, so the works are splayed out in a loose application of hot liquid, then cut back, then washed over with brushes of hot wax again. It’s a combination of chaos and control. The series draws inspiration from women all over the globe, as originally photographed by Mihaela Noroc for her book The Atlas of Beauty. A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go towards her project. While internationally influenced, the pieces were painted, scraped, and carved at the artist’s hundred year old Detroit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

"Muse of Insight", Encaustic, Oil, and Paper on Wood
Located in Detroit, MI
Celebrating our common colors as well as our diversity is Linden Godlove’s latest series of encaustics, “The Muses.” The paintings are modeled after icons, with a direct gaze that he...
Category

2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

"Muse of Passion", Encaustic, Oil, and Paper on Wood
Located in Detroit, MI
Celebrating our common colors as well as our diversity is Linden Godlove’s latest series of encaustics, “The Muses.” The paintings are modeled after icons, with a direct gaze that hearkens a response to their spirit, to find company in their character. This particular piece is the "Muse of Passion" and is part of a set of nine that are sold separately from one another. Encaustic painting is an ancient art form (some early icons are encaustic), where hot wax is mixed with pigment and resin, and painted while liquid. Throughout the process, everything is repeatedly fused with fire and sometimes things melt in an unintended direction. Linden’s process involves repeatedly carving parts out and filling them back in, so the works are splayed out in a loose application of hot liquid, then cut back, then washed over with brushes of hot wax again. It’s a combination of chaos and control. The series draws inspiration from women all over the globe, as originally photographed by Mihaela Noroc for her book The Atlas of Beauty. A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go towards her project. While internationally influenced, the pieces were painted, scraped, and carved at the artist’s hundred year old Detroit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

"Muse of Mystery", Encaustic, Oil, and Paper on Wood
Located in Detroit, MI
Celebrating our common colors as well as our diversity is Linden Godlove’s latest series of encaustics, “The Muses.” The paintings are modeled after icons, with a direct gaze that hearkens a response to their spirit, to find company in their character. This particular piece is the "Muse of Mystery" and is part of a set of nine that are sold separately from one another. Encaustic painting is an ancient art form (some early icons are encaustic), where hot wax is mixed with pigment and resin, and painted while liquid. Throughout the process, everything is repeatedly fused with fire and sometimes things melt in an unintended direction. Linden’s process involves repeatedly carving parts out and filling them back in, so the works are splayed out in a loose application of hot liquid, then cut back, then washed over with brushes of hot wax again. It’s a combination of chaos and control. The series draws inspiration from women all over the globe, as originally photographed by Mihaela Noroc for her book The Atlas of Beauty. A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go towards her project. While internationally influenced, the pieces were painted, scraped, and carved at the artist’s hundred year old Detroit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

"Muse of Deliberation", Encaustic, Oil, and Paper on Wood
Located in Detroit, MI
Celebrating our common colors as well as our diversity is Linden Godlove’s latest series of encaustics, “The Muses.” The paintings are modeled after icons, with a direct gaze that hearkens a response to their spirit, to find company in their character. This particular piece is the "Muse of Deliberation" and is part of a set of nine that are sold separately from one another. Encaustic painting is an ancient art form (some early icons are encaustic), where hot wax is mixed with pigment and resin, and painted while liquid. Throughout the process, everything is repeatedly fused with fire and sometimes things melt in an unintended direction. Linden’s process involves repeatedly carving parts out and filling them back in, so the works are splayed out in a loose application of hot liquid, then cut back, then washed over with brushes of hot wax again. It’s a combination of chaos and control. The series draws inspiration from women all over the globe, as originally photographed by Mihaela Noroc for her book The Atlas of Beauty. A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go towards her project. While internationally influenced, the pieces were painted, scraped, and carved at the artist’s hundred year old Detroit...
Category

2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

"Muse of Vitality", Encaustic, Oil, and Paper on Wood
Located in Detroit, MI
Celebrating our common colors as well as our diversity is Linden Godlove’s latest series of encaustics, “The Muses.” The paintings are modeled after icons, with a direct gaze that hearkens a response to their spirit, to find company in their character. This particular piece is the "Muse of Vitality" and is part of a set of nine that are sold separately from one another. Encaustic painting is an ancient art form (some early icons are encaustic), where hot wax is mixed with pigment and resin, and painted while liquid. Throughout the process, everything is repeatedly fused with fire and sometimes things melt in an unintended direction. Linden’s process involves repeatedly carving parts out and filling them back in, so the works are splayed out in a loose application of hot liquid, then cut back, then washed over with brushes of hot wax again. It’s a combination of chaos and control. The series draws inspiration from women all over the globe, as originally photographed by Mihaela Noroc for her book The Atlas of Beauty. A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go towards her project. While internationally influenced, the pieces were painted, scraped, and carved at the artist’s hundred year old Detroit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

Untitled. 2002, oil on wood, 57x17, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Untitled. 2002, oil on wood, 57x17,5 cm Man face on red background with flower Kaspars Perskis (1975) was born in Riga, Latvia. This is where he studied painting and was granted a ...
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood

Hide and Seek (portrait) - abstract art , made in black and white, blue colors
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Hide and Seek (portrait) - abstract art , made in black and white, blue colors. The game of hide and seek. The leitmotif of the repeatability of the plot causes fear, fear is very ro...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Diana" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Jodie Herrera's (US based) "Diana" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dark haired woman with green and blue patterning that merges her form with the background. A...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

"A New Rhythm 1, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Stefan Smit's (SA based) "A New Rhythm 1" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a man on his tiptoes dancing with the tan and lavender shapes ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"A New Rhythm 3, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Stefan Smit's (SA based) "A New Rhythm 3" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a black man in a matching yellow ensemble full of movement as ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Human Welfare", acrylic painting, portrait, politics, Paris, humanity, resist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Human Welfare" is an acrylic painting on paper measuring 36" high by 24" wide. It is one of 50 portraits that comprise Profiles in Democracy. Savage in their execution, they are nevertheless heartfelt expressions from the artist – politically, socially, culturally – in some cases featuring text and language in the portrait. In this case, the reference to Paris October 1979, Boulevard de Sebastopol, marks the afternoon Dale Williams was in Paris and sketched the woman in the portrait. From Dale Williams: "Profiles in Democracy is a group of 50 portraits completed in 2019. They are an expression of sorrow at the fracturing ideals that our country now teeters upon. The portraits are mostly – not exclusively – imaginary: a populace viewed from the inside out, people that someone like our current president might call losers. They perhaps “live in gaudy poverty, powerful destitution,” to quote Osip Mandelstam...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"Starnosed Mole", acrylic painting, portrait, politics, poetry, humanity, resist
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Starnosed Mole" is an acrylic painting with litho ink and charcoal on paper, measuring 36" high by 24" wide. It is one of 50 portraits that comprise Profiles in Democracy. Savage in their execution, they are nevertheless heartfelt expressions from the artist – politically, socially, culturally – in some cases featuring text and language in the portrait. In this case, one individual musters faith and fortitude to press on, fight on. The words at top read: "Audacity – said the mole – shall root that mountain down." From Dale Williams: "Profiles in Democracy is a group of 50 portraits completed in 2019. They are an expression of sorrow at the fracturing ideals that our country now teeters upon. The portraits are mostly – not exclusively – imaginary: a populace viewed from the inside out, people that someone like our current president might call losers. They perhaps “live in gaudy poverty, powerful destitution,” to quote Osip Mandelstam...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

'Dreaming of Flight', by Paul Micich, Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This painting is from the artist's Paper Airplane series. A woman in silvery blue sits serenely against a black background with her arms crossed and eyes closed as her mind explodes with white dreams escaping the canvas. "I’m drawn to the dreamers where are they going? where will things end up? is it just a dream? just? NEVER" -- Paul Micich...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Alkyd, Canvas

Women portraits. 2.pcs., paper, mixed media, 10, 2x5, 3 cm, 13, 9x10, 2 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Women portraits. 2.pcs., paper, mixed media, 10,2x5,3 cm, 13,9x10,2 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives giv...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

"V in Magenta" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Valentin Fischer's (DE based) "V in Magenta" is an oil painting that depicts a dark haired woman in profile cast in a pink glow that melts into the pi...
Category

2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"L in Ultramarine" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Valentin Fischer's (DE based) "L in Ultramarine" is an oil painting that depicts a dark haired woman looking outwards while cast in a blue glow that m...
Category

2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"K in Turquoise" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Valentin Fischer's (DE based) "K in Turquoise" is an oil painting that depicts a blonde woman looking down while cast in a blue glow that melts into t...
Category

2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Un instant" , 2020, acrylic paint on canvas , size with frame 84 x 64 cm
Located in Barbizon, FR
Corine Laine is a painter from Barbizon, a French commune located in the department of Seine-et-Marne, in the region of Île-de-France. Barbizon is one of the mythical places of pre-impressionist painting in France...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Souvenirs" , 2020, acrylic paint on canvas , size with frame 122x 95 cm
Located in Barbizon, FR
Corine Laine is a painter from Barbizon, a French commune located in the department of Seine-et-Marne, in the region of Île-de-France. Barbizon is one of the mythical places of pre-impressionist painting in France...
Category

2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Night Speed Skating, " Mix Media Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Tracey Brandon's (US based) "Night Speed Skating" is an mixed media drawing that depicts a black clad skater racing towards the foreground w...
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Carbon Pencil

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.

Recently Viewed

View All