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Chronos and the blade of destiny Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting myth
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and oil pastel on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
Coronation Portrait Of King Edward VI (1537-1553) as King Of England & Ireland
Located in Blackwater, GB
Coronation Portrait Of King Edward VI (1537-1553) as King Of England & Ireland, 16th Century
English School - Oil on panel - circa 1547
Large 16th Century Coronation portrait of E...
Category
16th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Portrait of General Henry Ireton (1611-1651) Son In Law to Oliver Cromwell
By Robert Walker
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of General Henry Ireton (1611-1651) Son In Law to Oliver Cromwell, 17th Century
attributed Robert WALKER (1607-1658)
Large 17th Century portrait of General Henry Ireton, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition Civil War portrait...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled - Woman, nude portrait, figurative oil painting, blue & black
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Using pure oil paint, which gives the artwork its unique texture, the artist manages to use two particularly difficult colors to work with: black and blue. In his composition, he cre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The pig and the bird of prey Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting red oil
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
News from Eéa
“At the time of the last cosmogony I heard from Eéa
In the middle of the water, an island sur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old Man
Located in New York, NY
2020, Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Matthew At The Piano, dated 1969 by EDWARD HALL (1922-1991)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Matthew At The Piano, dated 1969
by EDWARD HALL (1922-1991)
Large 20th century portrait of Matthew at the piano, oil on canvas by Edward Hall...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Spanish Marquess, 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Spanish Marquess, 18th Century
attributed to Louis-Michel VAN LOO (1707-1771)
Large 18th European portrait of a Spanish Marquees / Noble at a bureaux signing a docum...
Category
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Russian oil portrait of Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky by A. Ivasenko
By Anatolii Ivasenko
Located in London, GB
Russian oil portrait of Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky by A. Ivasenko
Russian, 1987
Frame: height 106cm, width 111cm
Canvas: height 95cm, width 100cm
This excellent portrait was executed by the artist A. Ivasenko, and depicts Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky, the famed Soviet filmmaker, and son of the noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky wasthe most important Soviet filmmaker after Sergei Eisenstein, and his approach to cinematic time and space, as well as his commitment to cinema as a form of poetry, means his oeuvre is regarded as one of the most defining collections of modern film. He first achieved international acclaim with 'Ivan's Childhood' in 1962, which won top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and other career highlights include 'Andrei Rublev...
Category
1980s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Door Gevaert (b. 1911/17, Kortrijk/Belgium), Portrait of a Woman
Located in Greding, DE
Depiction of a woman's head with necklace in impasto color application in blue and pink tones. Bottom left signed Door Gevaert. Image size: 78 x 58 cm. Oil on canvas; profiled wooden...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rebirth
Located in Miami, FL
“Rebirth”
2023
30x40 in
Acrylic on canvas
$3000
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Camila Rosa is a Brazilian Artist and Illustrator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
She started her life as an artist in 2010 with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait Of A Gentleman Holding Flowers, circa 1600 Flemish School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Gentleman Holding Flowers, circa 1600
Flemish School
Large circa 1600 Flemish School portrait of a man holding flowers wearing a plumed hat, oil on panel. Exceptional...
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Original Painting
Lucia Riccelli, painter and performance artist.
Born in Rome, living in Vienna, Zakynthos and Rome.
Degreed at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in painting and scenography. Studied and performed classical ballet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Raw Linen, Oil, Acrylic
No. 83 - Make A Wish
Located in Wien, 9
No. 83 - Make a Wish (2021), Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 100 x 100 cm
Elena Steiner was born in Susice (Czech Republic) in 1975 and lives and works in Vienna. She completed her painting studies at the Institute for Fine and Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in Johanna Kandl’s class.
In her series of works, Elena Steiner examines a different type of person, sensitizes the viewer, confronts him with the uncompromising demasking of his own world and that of the portrayed by violating the illusion-bearing canvas surface. She creates realistic acrylic paintings as metaphors for being and appearance. The injuries in the form of seams, stitches and stitches are the epitome of traditional female role fulfillment. Elena Steiner deals with the questions of the value of fulfilling external wishes, social recognition and self-determination. Her works experiment with the border areas between painting, object, real exhibition space and imaginative spatiality and thus offer a captivating game be-tween closeness and distance, between impenetrable closeness and revealing familiarity. Her artistic work shows a zoomed in, sharply focused, snappy, humorous portrait...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Meditation #2
Located in Singapore, SG
Humans need a balance between the physical world and the inner consciousness. One way to get there is through meditation. Meditation has a positive and constructive impact on the psy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marilyn Monroe - Sweet Dreams
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 36.00" x 30.00"
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Bowie
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the late great David Bowie. Figurative painting.
About the Artist:
Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's, mixing Pop Art and Street Art, he started painting on the walls of his Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris (famous in the 50's for being the gathering point of writers and painters i.e Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Modigliani....).
A few years later, Le Closier made official portraits for tennis players Serena Williams, Kei Nishikori, Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten, Bryan Brothers, David Goffin, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jeremy Chardy, American golf player Cristie Kerr and Paris-Saint-Germain's president Nasser Al-Khelaifi (among others).
In May 2016, he was asked by France Pavilion to paint a portrait of Chief Justice Stephen Breyer for the French/American business week at the French Embassy in Washington, DC.
Today, Le Closier creates colorful compositions inspired by celebrities, arts, comics, advertising, fashion..., mixing people, brands and symbols on different supports (canvas, wood cutouts...
Category
2010s Conceptual Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
"Sea Witch and the Jellyfish" oil portrait on Dibond panel
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Sea Witch and the Jellyfish, 2017
oil on Dibond
30.5” x 22" unframed
36" x 27.25" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Film Noir Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Herbert Morton Stoops
American (1888 - 1948)
Curse of the Golden Cross
Magazine illustration, 1925
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Not signed
Work is framed
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Superstar
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait.
About the Artist:
My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Practicing the Speech, Liberty Magazine Cover
By John Howitt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1939
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 33.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of Liberty Magazine, January 14, 1939
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prayer - Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Signed lower right
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mia Farrow
By Seek One
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood panel with epoxy resin finish. Homage to Mia Farrow.
About the Artist:
Seek One is an up and coming talent, showing at galleries w...
Category
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Eagle & Rabbit In The Alps, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Eagle & Rabbit In The Alps, 19th Century
attributed to John James AUDUBON (1785-1851)
Fine large 19th Century French School study of an Eagle with its prey in the mountains of the...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of Elizabeth Campbell & Daughter, Wife Of Colonel Colin Campbell
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Elizabeth Campbell & Daughter, Wife Of Colonel Colin Campbell
circle of Margaret Carpenter (1793-1872)
Large 19th Century English portrait of Elizabeth Campbell & Daughter, oil on canvas. Seated half length mother and daughter portrait of the wife of Colonel Colin Campbell. Good quality similar to Margaret Carpenters...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Girl in Red Chair
By Hans Amis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 40.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Image of young girl seated in chair reading a book.
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Comme Avant, As Before" Abstract Colorful Portrait Street Art Pop Art on Canvas
By J.M. Robert
Located in New York, NY
This particular piece depicts an anonymous portrait of a beautiful woman. Inspired by the every day, JM Robert strives to create paintings that mimic the fla...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Iv" Painting 35" x 28" inch by Vladislav Chenchik
Located in Culver City, CA
"Iv" Painting 35" x 28" inch by Vladislav Chenchik
Vladislav Chenchik is a contemporary artist from Ukraine. His artwork combines abstract and realistic styles, with a focus on port...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Honoré Louis Umbricht, Portrait Of Marguerite Grosjean, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by French artist Honoré Louis Umbricht (1860-1943) depicts Marguerite Grosjean (b. 1895), the daughter of law of Alexandre Grosjean, the mayor of...
Category
1920s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Narcissus Awoken Visage, Dark Tones Face Painting on Papyrus Paper, Pink, Yellow
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interactions with concepts such a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
The Goddess Hera - 19th Century Neoclassical Oil Painting Ancient Greek Myth
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Hera’ by Eduard Niczky (1850-1919).
The painting - which depicts the Greek queen of the gods in golden diadem and yellow robe - is signed by the artist and hangs in a newly commis...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Regina dei Fiori - 19th Century Oil Painting Society Portrait of Italian Beauty
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Regina dei Fiori’ by Frédéric Soulacroix (1858-1933).
The painting – which depicts an aristocratic Italian beauty sitting beside a porcelain vase full of peonies – is signed by th...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Une Affection Tacite - Large 19th Century Oil Painting of Young Lovers
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Une Affection Tacite’ by Adèle Kindt (1804-1893).
The painting – which depicts a young woman and her ardent admirer – is signed by the artist and dated 1862.
Born into a family o...
Category
1860s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"BAD MAN WITH A PRETTY FACE" Painting 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
By Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"BAD MAN WITH A PRETTY FACE" Painting 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Medium: OIl and aerosol on wood
"The Modern Renaissance" series
Historically, the art world has been an exclusi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood, Spray Paint
The Boy Kuba - Modern, Contemporary Portrait Painting, Pop Art, Joyful
By Anna Ładecka
Located in Salzburg, AT
Anna Ładecka is a Paris-based polish illustrator and painter.
Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Art - Diploma in painting and lithography and obtained a scholar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Peace and Tranquility 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Retro_Pop_Female Portrait/Figurative_Acrylic_James Wolanin, Summer Love, 2024
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
JAMES WOLANIN
"Summer Love"
Acrylic & Gloss Varnish on Panel
36 x 36 inches
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James Wolanin’s paintings transport the viewer to an effervescent, candy coated w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Panel
"Rainy Summer Night in NYC" model sitting in downtown artist's studio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Rainy Summer Night in NYC" is a contemporary oil painting of a model sitting in an artist's studio in downtown Manhattan.
Nick Weber (b.1971), living and painting in Springs, NY (...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dimitri Likissas - Eye Two
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Nude woman
Located in Sempach, LU
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud.
"Nudes are interesting to paint; I've had people say my Ladies are ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady, 1830 Era, Portrait With Micromosaic Bracelet.
Located in Firenze, IT
Lady, 1830 era, portrait with micromosaic jewelry.
A richly detailed portrayal of 1830s fashion, this rare testament to jewelry history vividly ca...
Category
1830s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Large 1820's English Portrait Dapper Young Gentleman Period Drama Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Dapper Young Gentleman
English School, circa 1820's period
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 40 x 34 inches
canvas: 32 x 27 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: ...
Category
1820s Victorian 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
Romantic Italian painter - 19th century figure painting - Lutist - Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
Romantic painter (19th century) - The Lutist.
72 x 57 cm without frame, 85.5 x 69.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report: Orig...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lesson - Portrait Interior - British Victorian art oil painting reading
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Victorian oil painting is by noted artist John Eaton Walker. Painted circa 1855 it is portrait in an interior of a beautiful young woman in a yellow satin dress. ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 55 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 40/40”
By Orit Fuchs
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 a Lady in Blue Silk Dress & Crimson Mantle c.1695; by Thomas Murray
Located in London, GB
The sitter is elegantly attired in a blue silk dress over a white frilled chemise and a striking crimson mantle. The artist, Thomas Murray, can be described as one of the most successful and talented during the last part of the seventeenth century. It is not surprising that Murray painted the portraits of King William III, Queen Mary, Queen Ann as well as several other high-ranking individuals. The influence of Sir Godfrey Kneller is evident and even expected considering the importance of Kneller, and even though the formula employed for head and shoulders portraits of woman during the period is similar, Murray’s work is distinguishable by a refined and elegant manner, a smooth overall feel, and often, distinctive eyes. Murray is known to have employed not only the same pattern as our portrait but the three distinctive colours (blue, white, red) many times.
Thomas Murray was born in Scotland but moved to London to study with a member of the De Critz family. Later he was a pupil of the English portraitist John Riley (1646-1691), who was court painter to King William III and Queen Mary, and was practising as a painter on his own in the 1680s. In 1691 he took over Riley’s studio when that artist died in 1691 and he established a very successful practice.
The Rev, James Dalloway accounted that Murray “was remarkable for his personal beauty and for the elegance of his manner” and he was also noted to have been hard working, courteous and popular with his customers. His portraiture retains an individual style and easily recognised but his earlier work is similar to John Closterman, who was a fellow pupil, and many consider this period to be his finest.
Murray invested wisely in property and when he died in 1735, he left around £40,000. He had no children and he bequeathed his money to a nephew with instructions that his monument, with a bust, should be erected in Westminster Abbey, provided that it did not cost too much – but his nephew decided that it was indeed “too expensive” and the plan did not proceed. He is buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden.
Murray’s work is represented in many British country houses and private collections, the National Portrait Gallery London, Royal Society and Middle Temple in London, and in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
A good example of 17th century British portraiture...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady with Crimson Wrap & Fur c.1675 Fine Dutch Old Master Painting
Located in London, GB
This exquisite portrait, presented by Titan Fine Art, was painted in the era of London’s Great Fire - a young woman has been depicted wearing the most luxurious attire and a fortune ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Soldier Armour Lombard Painter 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Lombard painter of the 17th century
Portrait of a Man in Armour
Oil on canvas
81 x 71 cm. - In frame 94 x 82 cm.
A handsome gentleman in armour, immortalised in an authoritative an...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
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 Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Hourglass" Abstract Painting 39" x 27.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Hourglass" Abstract Painting 39" x 27.5" 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 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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas
"Fume" Acrylic on canvas 39" x 39" inch painting by Tom Barnabi
By Tom Barnabi
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fume" Acrylic on canvas 39" x 39" inch painting by Tom Barnabi
Tom Barnabi is a part of the modern generation of artists, who managed to absorb several c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Portrait of a Young Gentleman and Pet Dog c.1680, Antique oil on Canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
The portrait genre was valued particularly highly in English society. Neither landscapes nor allegorical pictures were ever priced so highly at exhibitions and in the trade as depictions of people, from the highest aristocracy to scholars, writers, poets and statesmen. This charming portrait, presented by Titan Fine Art, of a fashionable young gentleman and his faithful pet is an excellent example of 17th century child portraiture in England. There is a remarkable beauty and sensitivity to the portrait. The face, particularly well rendered, has captured the character of this young man – both charming and at the same time mischievous.
Only the playful attention of a small dog suggests anything less than patrician dignity. Symbolism was important in portraiture and it provided a pointed and aspirational narrative that would not have been lost on contemporary viewers. For example, the presence of the dog, which was likely the boy’s pet, is at once a charming pictorial device and also a clear allusion to fidelity, trust and loyalty.
The hairstyle and the attire, notably the type of cravat with the blue ribbon, help to date this portrait to between 1670 to 1685. Until the late eighteenth century children were dressed as adults - boys were dressed like men in breeches, vests, and coats between four and seven years of age. The expensive lace is an indication to his family’s wealth.
Held in a good quality and condition antique gilded frame.
Born in Suffolk, Mary Beale, nee Cradock (1633-1699) was employed by many of the most distinguished persons of her time including nobility, landed gentry, and clergymen. Technically accomplished, her paintings are noteworthy for their honest and sympathetic portrayal. In 1651 she married Charles Beale...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Lady, Grace Saunderson, Viscountess Castleton Oil on canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Grace Saunderson, Viscountess Castleton (1635-1667) c.1665-67
Sir Peter Lely and Studio (1618-1680)
Titan Fine Art present this work, which formed part of a collection of family pictures and heirlooms of the Saunderson, Viscount Castleton family and their descendants, the Earls of Scarbrough, at their magnificent family seat Sandbeck Park, where the Earls still reside today almost four hundred years later. It was painted in the studio of Sir Peter Lely...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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