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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Contemporary
Expressionist Portrait Oil Painting "Woman with Hat" with Handmade Gilded Frame
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique, abstracted portrait oil painting on Belgian linen canvas, framed with a hand made gilded frame. Dimensions of 86.5 x 76.5 cm includes the size of the frame. Artwork size ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Unlikely Event 5 (The Soothsayer)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Can we please lay out the tables now? Can we allow the days? Once more permit the rivers and oceans to lie in their beds? May I close my eyes and reach out, breathing normally again, certain that the sky is filled with birds, and that you will remain? Or shall we send me back into the grey-blue chambers of disconnection and hollow ambition?
A strange card to the wail of the unseen host, somewhere in Africa across the fields, turning over an unfortunate card and laying them slickly in the firelight, winking in such dark, knowing eyes. I was passing at some distance, circled and charmed to all ends, painting the figure in place of any other kind of sustenance, yet distracted and possessed by one who would undoubtedly deny it. One who would claim to have never had my name.
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About Artist
Ajegbomogun Damilola...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expansive Potentials (Feminine Epidemic Series)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This is a universal problem that needs to be addressed, firstly in law 70% of woman has no right, and moreover, in the past and in some culture, your parent choose who you ought to m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
The Man That I Was
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
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.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
accordionist with pipe oil on board painting modernism art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Albert Roca (1945) - accordionist with pipe oil on board painting
Medidas óleo 47x34 cm.
Medidas marco 62x48 cm.
Painter of landscapes and figures, in who...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Self Appraisal 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Self Appraisal" is an original painting created by Awosola Michael Angello. Angello created "Self Appraisal" with Oil paint on a Primed canvas of 30W ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
traveling musicians oil on board painting modernism art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 70x50 cm.
Frame measures 83x63 cm.
Painter of landscapes and figures, in whose characterization he deepens psychologically capturing the character, Albert
Roca has won...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Red Street By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Aren't We All Hungry?
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Unconsciously we are using this expression to suggest that we are all influenced by the same problems, and forces while actually agreeing to our true state: existing in a fully integ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Romy: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting by John Emanuel
By John Emanuel
Located in Brecon, Powys
John Emanuel embarking on a series of works using new life models. Unusual for a artist who has over the last 40 years only had 3 previous sitters. Now working with Sarah Jane and Ro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, ABS
Blow up
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
“Blow up” is a peculiar hommage towards Michelangelo Antonioni and Julio Cortazar. The color element here almost disappears, leaving a kind of neutral beginning, an elusive, but quite real equivalent of a fading light ... The metaphor “Blow up” is a rebirth, a new life ... A form of mental dialogue between the artist and the viewer by means of plastic language of the painting.
In the modern world, the artist is a peculiar explorer of the time that he lives In. The “main character” of this world is a man whose gaze is turned inward. This view projects its existential reality, where the figurative language of painting is a method of transmitting abstract images of the experiences of the main characters and the time in which they exist on an equal footing with the viewer. Pictures of Daria Kotlyarova have no plot, at first glance, they have no action, but there is a moment. The moment before the second “before” ... and the viewer stops and freezes in tension, this is almost a psychological “cinema reception” that refers us to David Hockney’s paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sabine
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
69.5 x 60.5 x 3.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Mavka" the spirit of broken love
Located in Zofingen, AG
ITEM DETAILS
The edges are painted
Some parts of the picture glow under blue light
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The painting "Mavka" takes us to the world of Ukrainian folklore.
According t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Yesterday's Present- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a blond woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Victor Schegin 'Seehund'
Burning
116 x 89 cm
oil on canvas
The French artist Victor Schegin 'Seehund' lives and works in Paris.
At the age of 15, young Victor discovered tagging th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Juvenile III
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Charles Osaro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
A Charming, Colorful 1930s Painting of a Young Woman Knitting by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, colorful 1930s painting of a young woman knitting by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. A harmonious palette of cheerful yellows, reds and blues, where a young...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Two Figures By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Africa in Slumber
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Africa in slumber, under the moon's watchful eye,
Lies a land of untold wealth and vast potential.
But corruption and non-development, like a poison, doth lie,
And hold back progress...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Portrait 25-6, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Green, blue, and metallic gold dots form a woman's portrait against a black background. Artist Hyoungseok Kim painted this piece using pointillism. He emphasi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait 25-8, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Tiny, multicolored dots form the portrait of a woman, her features subtly emerging from a dark background. Green, blue, and metallic gold define her face. Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signatur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Expressionist Portrait Oil Painting "Man's Head 2" with Handmade Gilded Frame
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique, abstracted portrait oil painting on Belgian linen canvas, framed with a hand made gilded frame. Dimensions of 86.5 x 76.5 cm includes the size of the frame. Artwork size ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Foot 02
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Plage de Bussaghlia
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Fine Lady Caricatures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
proven...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Nude - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinell...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Purpose of Existence 9
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
People believe money is power in my society - because the leaders steal money to oppress and suffer the poor.
But I realize the opposite of this is the purpose of living.
We are all...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Diable (Catharsism, Brush Strokes, Surrealism, Semi Abstract, +35% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Archival Pigment Print on Linen
Year: 2022
Size: 33.4 x 25.5 inches
Signed and titled by hand
COA provided
The style reflects the need for constant self-perfection and development, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Archival Pigment
Bleasure 4 (House of Cards)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Honestly, I have been doing everything I can to become a human being again. I blink my eyes like people do, walk casually, sit with my legs crossed as if I am enjoying myself, and sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Rabbis Dancing in Jerusalem, Judaica, Mixed Media Painting
By Moshe Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe Katz (Romanian Israeli), 1937- an Israeli citizen, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, as well as at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
Although not an expo...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Against All Odds 9
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mona's Sister, Figurative, Texas artist, Women in the Arts, 9x12" oil on birch
Located in Houston, TX
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ARTIST EXPLANATION OF THE PAINTINGS:
"Mona's Sister": oil on cradled birch panel. Ready to hang with wire on the back
They are blurred. So I paint them with a regular brush, let the paint get partially dry, and then I use a brush to go over it many times to blur the paint.
Sometime if it gets too blurred I go back in and do some more painting to define an area, and then use a big special brush to blur the image again.
Also seen in this listing are other available paintings by the artist which can be found in a separate listings.
Joan Breckwoldt is an American contemporary artist living in Houston, Texas. Her training has a foundation of traditional methods and she enjoys the challenge of using traditional painting methods to create contemporary works. Joan has studied at the University of Texas at Austin, The Art League of Houston, and the Konigs Schule in the Hague, the Netherlands. She is represented by the Jack Meier Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil
Exercises - Expressionism Painting, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Born in 1966 in Wroclaw. Works mainly in oil and acrylic painting. He studied at Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Professor Konrad Jarodzki and Andrzej Klimczak Dobrzani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wait - Large Format - Contemporary Colorful Figurative Expressionism Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
We offer 2 shipping options : 1) Canvas is unstretched. The painting would be shipped in a rolled state without stretcher, This is then the cheaper option. 2) The more expensive sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ajemurewa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Ajemurewa is a native of the Yoruba in the western part of Nigeria, which means wealth brings fortune.
He is a very hardworking personality with a huge dream of taking his family out...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dandia Raas, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Yellow, Green by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Gangopadhyay - Dandia Raas, 30 x 36 inches (Unframed Size)
Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Should you want it framed and ready to hang ..please le...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Friends - Contemporary, Red, Figurative Painting, 21st Century, Fire, Yellow
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Two Friends, 2013
Acrylic on canvas
108.66 H x 145.66 W in.
276 H x 370 W cm
Painted in a vivid colorful gestural expressionist manner "Two Friends" by Alexandru Radvan refers to an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled 1 - Contemporary Portrait, Modern Expressive Painting
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Formal Suit - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Existentialism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Kotlicki’s works are texturally rich to great extent. Along with chiaroscuro, the author plays with contrasts, setting flat colour patches with a thick, uneven layer of paint, round ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Decorators Oil Painting on Panel Post Modern Betty Boop In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Decorators Oil Painting on Panel Post Modern Betty Boop In Stock
Manuel Lopez Herrera was born in Madrid Spain in 1946. Herrera began with classes in dra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Âme Impétueuse (Catharsism, Brush Strokes, Surrealism, ~35% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Archival Pigment Print on Linen
Year: 2022
Size: 25.5 x 33.4 inches
Signed and titled by hand
COA provided
The style reflects the need for constant self-perfection and development, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Archival Pigment
Half-naked woman gardening by Alexandre Rochat - Gouache
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Gilded wood frame with glass pane
62 x 47 x 3 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Look At My Hair, This is Who I Am
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
If you could read your mind,
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drugstore sells
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be you.
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take.
About Artist
Olaosun Oluwapelumi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Letter to the World" Hyper-realistic oil painting, woman and palm trees
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Letter to the World" is an original oil painting on canvas by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame measuring 37”h x 45”w, as pictured. This p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman On The Beach - Portrait Painting by Giampaolo Talani
Located in Carmel, CA
Giampaolo Talani (1955-2018)
The "mad scientist" of the art world, Talani created art out of virtually everything he touched. After completing his training at the Florence Academy of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - Yoga Style Figure Green Trousers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Green Trousers
by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019)
gouache paint
painting: 15.75 x 11.75 inches
provenance: private collection, South of France
Superb original painting by the widely e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Grandma - Original Oil Female Portrait Painting, Realism, Cityscape, Modernism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Love Triangle - Contemporary, Female, Legs, Man, Pink, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Blue Love Triangle, 2019
Oil on canvas (Signed on reverse)
31 1/2 H x 23 5/8 W in.
80 H x 60 W cm
In his paintings, Radu Rodideal speaks about the concept of loneliness. Everybody ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Womanhood
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Womanhood is an original acrylic painting by Tomiwa Arobieke. Tomiwa created "Womanhood" on a 48W by 48H inches primed canvas.
In Womanhood, Tomiwa Arobieke depicts the power of Afr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Agencement de Couleurs (Catharsism, Brush Stroke, Surrealism, Abstract, 35% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Archival Pigment Print on Linen
Year: 2022
Size: 33.4 x 25.5 inches
Signed and titled by hand
COA provided
The style reflects the need for constant self-perfection and development, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Archival Pigment
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of gestural abstraction with dynamic brush strokes and shapes. Main color is red balanced by yellow a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Retrospect
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
The Room By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Modernist Signed Painting Portrait of Blue Eyed Young Girl in Red Jacket
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front and inscribed verso
Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Oil Painting with Latino Theme -- La Vidente y Vendedora de Cigarros
Located in Troy, NY
This oil painting shows a figure of a woman most often associated with Cuban folk life. The title of the painting may be translated as the "The Seer and Seller of Cigars," indicating...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Blue (Sepia Toned Figurative Oil Painting of Boys on Bikes with Blue Ball)
By Carl Grauer
Located in Hudson, NY
Blue (Sepia Toned Figurative Oil Painting of Boys on Bikes with Blue Ball)
Contemporary figurative painting based on a 1960's photograph, plays deeply on feelings of nostalgia and identity.
oil on wood panel
20 x 20 x 2 inches
Carl Grauer’s 'Blue' plays with the tension between memories, the “return to home”, and the actual experienced past through the renderings of the family unit. Inspired by images on found slides or old family photos, Grauer provokes mixed responses of delight and sadness, reminding us that unlike space, time cannot be returned. Grauer paints 'Blue' in black and white, sepia tones, and blue oil paint on wood to capture the nostalgia of a vintage 1950's photograph. Two young children ride bicycles in a charming landscape while one child holds a big blue ball. The blue ball beautifully contrasts with the sepia toned landscape. The brushstrokes are smooth, with little texture built upon the surface.
About the work:
Recollections, a series that plays with the tension between memories, the “return to home”, and the actual experienced past, is an idea that I explore through the renderings of the family unit. Nostalgia comes from the Greek word nostos, meaning “to return to home” and algos, meaning “pain”. Before the rise of pathological anatomy and bacteriology made it less credible, medically; nostalgia was considered a “disorder of the imagination. Through time, nostalgia’s meaning became a more generalized reaction to the sad fact that, unlike space, time cannot be returned. I initially began with source imagery of found slides and photos of people I find at flea markets, second hand stores or from my own family’s collection. I take the source imagery and change elements to signify specific moments that could be seen as memories that are remembered or forgotten. I aim to represent nostalgic scenes that may relay a tension, sorrow or humor that could be constructed memories or actual experienced events. The exact narrative may be forgotten or unknown, but the complex projection of an idealized story that I find intriguing may serve to reflect a feeling or memory for another person.
CV
1975 Born in Wilson, Kansas, USA
EDUCATION
1998 Bachelor of Arts – University of Kansas
2000 Mastor of Fine Arts – University of Michigan
2015 Portrait and Figure Painting – London Atelier of Representational Art
EXHIBITIONS
2016 "Petit: A Group Exhibition of Smaller Sized Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Resilience
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Resilience" is an artwork created by Ogunniyi Oluwatosin, a Nigerian artist who uses his art to showcase the strength and resilience of women in s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
JEAN MARC (1949-2019) 20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - PORTRAIT OF FACE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait"
by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019)
watercolour on artist paper
signed and dated 97'
double sided
painting: 12.5 x 9.5 inches
provenance: private collection, South of Fran...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
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.
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