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Fleurs et canotier
Martine Grégoire
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£581
The Joker new
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,903
Young Sophia Loren
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£3,350
Brigitte Bardot
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,796
Godfather & Tom
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£3,796
Godfather III
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£3,796
Portrait de Lauryn Hill 2-2022
Narôme
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
£884
Ambiance retro en vélo
Martine Grégoire
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£706
Entre bandeau et foulard
Martine Grégoire
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
£536
Tresses et fleurs blanches
Martine Grégoire
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£581
Brooklyn city
Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 1 inch
£554
Oasis city
Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo
Painting - 60 x 43 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.9 x 1 inch
£554
Ambiance romantique
Martine Grégoire
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£581
Michael Jackson
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Marilyn Monroe VI
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Scarface office
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Johan Cruijff ajax
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Marilyn Monroe III
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Conor McGregor
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Godfahter de Niro
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,456
Sons of anarchy
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Sons of anarchy
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Godfather IIII
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Godfather III
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Max verstappen
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Godfather & Son
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£2,635
Happy gathering time
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£536 £456
Brigitte Bardot
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£4,421
Vikings father & son
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£4,421
Rico Verhoeven
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£4,421
Laurel et Hardy
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,903
Monkey trouble
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,796
Diego maradona
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,796
Rostros sin rostro 34
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Painting - 116 x 89 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 inch
£1,965
Rostros sin rostro 34
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Painting - 124 x 101 x 3 cm Painting - 48.8 x 39.8 x 1.2 inch
£2,590
Botox Forbidden Fruit
Ben Frost
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 4.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.8 inch
£2,546
Annunciazione serie Omaggio a Giusto de' Menabuoi
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 48 x 66 x 0.2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 26 x 0.1 inch
£250
Dans les bois
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,144
Santi serie Omaggio a Giusto de' Menabuoi
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 28 x 38 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11 x 15 x 0 inch
£134
Femme au Turban
Valérie Betoulaud
Painting - 120 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,965
Nel bosco incantato
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 40 x 17 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 6.7 x 0.6 inch
£277
Les chemins de la tendresse
Timothy Archer
Painting - 120 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2 inch
£3,841
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The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£995 £846
Circus Acrobats
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 49 x 15 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch
£1,428
Her Softness
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,340 £817
The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,518
Portrait #2. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
£995
L'envole I - préchauffage
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 93 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
£1,965
Mickey Mouse Soldier
Belart Collective
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,778
The Last Museum Guard at the Last Museum on Earth
Hernan Bas
Print - 49 x 35 cm Print - 19.3 x 13.8 inch
£1,072
Portrait Painting for Sale
Portraiture is one of the most important subjects in painting. The discipline has changed significantly over time and has a fascinating history.
In antiquity, portraits were exclusively reserved for gods and the most influential people in society. Paintings and statues representing the bodies of the deceased were erected to decorate tombs in Egypt. They weren't realistic but rather had a very standardized way of representing each part of the body.
In contrast to the Egyptians, painters and sculptors in Greece, who had a more in depth knowledge of the human anatomy, were more concerned about realism. Many portrait paintings from this period were done on vases and depicted gods and mythological scenes.
In the Middle Ages, most portraits paintings were commissioned and featuring the most important people of the time; they were painted into religious scenes to emphasize their piety and faith, along with their social status. Once these works of art had been painted, they were often donated to churches and monasteries.
The Renaissance marked a renewal for the arts and portrait painting was no exception. At the beginning of this period, artists were unconcerned about lifelike, realistic work. Sitters or the subjects represented were identifiable through the use of symbolic objects and the inclusion of their name.
Giotto revolutionized portraiture by imitating sculpture. He began to paint shadows, the subjects' expressions, effects of depth and began to use foreshortening. His knowledge soon began to spread.
Brunelleschi then introduced the idea of perspective in architecture, a concept which Masaccio adapted to painting. Italy became the center of portrait painting and the most important Italian families (including the Médici family) commissioned artwork by the best painters. Competition between these painters led them to innovate and led them to produce some of the greatest artworks in history. The most famous is undoubtedly the Mona Lisa by Leonardo de Vinci.
In Northern Europe during the 16th century, Flemish art was restricted by iconoclasm during the Reformation, a period during the depiction of religious figures was banned. Artists turned to courtly art which was particularly popular during the following centuries. A century earlier, Flemish art had marked a turning point with Jan Van Eyck, the inventor of oil painting (the preferred painting technique of Renaissance painters) and master of detailed realism, who influenced an entire generation of Flemish painters.
Over the following centuries, portrait painting continued to be an art form for the elite of society, but painters grew increasingly concerned about depicting realistic figures and communicating the sitter's inner world and emotions. The 20th century saw a growing trend: subjects were not painted to look beautiful (sometimes to their great dismay).
At the end of the 19th century, Impressionist painters became less reliant on sculpted models and sculpture's influence. They left their studios and painted portraits outside, “en plein air." They captured the light as they saw it and painted groups of people together rather than in in several stages.
Modern and contemporary art of the 20th century saw anything go when it came to portraits. Artists like Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin and Lucien Freud turned traditional techniques and codified rules on their heads and developed their own unique styles.
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What is meant by portrait painting?
A portrait painting is a painted artwork that depicts a person. A portrait painting usually depicts the upper body of a sitter, for example from the shoulders up.
What art style is a portrait?
A portrait can be created in various different art styles and forms, including sculpture, painting and drawing.
What makes a good portrait?
A portrait can be considered a good work of art for a variety of reasons, including its handling of light, tone and color, its likeness to the person it represents, or its expression of emotion.