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Russian Countess
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
In the Train Compartment
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Limelight - Non-Identical Twins
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
I Am Never Alone
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Image I Brought from the Desert
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Light Visible by Transparency
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Ready for a Swim
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
The Night I Love You Ichijo Narumi
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Thoughts Transmission between Mother and Daughter
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Synergy Red and Blue
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Model on the Podium
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
Annabelle and Rose
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
The beloved at the spring ritual
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Boudoir au Miroir
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Yellow Roses - Surprised
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Les Cyclistes Déjeunent
Christian Jodin
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€495 €248
L'Impératrice d'Iran & Maurice Béjar
Adel Younesi
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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A Little Coffee Break
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 30 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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Living in the Field of Roses and Other Magnificient Flowers
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Diamond Necklace
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
Red Hair Girl with Yellow Coat
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
Black Tights Dancers
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
I Know What I Want
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Good Luck Clover Charm, I do so Need it
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Chinese Princess
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
I live in Wapping and like it
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Let's Sing the Balad Between You and Me
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 73 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Romeo and Juliet Beyond the Bridge
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Pink Hair Sleeping Beauty
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Green Hair Sleeping Beauty
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
A Genial Choregrapher's Diary
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Two suns and the enchanted Bean
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Vernissage parisien
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€295 €148
Bun and Earrings Girl
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
Performers Before Entering Stage
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
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Red Man with Hat
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
Student on Warm Sand
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
Here, Right Now, Just Before Entering the Stage
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
On Stage - The Gentle Stars Shone for Us - Song by Tchaikovsky
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Opera House, Rain of Inspirations (Opéra, Pluie d'Inspirations)
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Afternoon of a Faun
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
2 flowers in paradise
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Out of the Shadow
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €245
Mélodie du printemps
Katherine Dubourdieu
Painting - 84 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 33.1 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
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Saint-Rufin d'Assise
Quitter Odessa
Painting - 42 x 35 x 12 cm Painting - 16.5 x 13.8 x 4.7 inch
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Portrait of Lenin
Albert Fernand-Renault
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
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Parisian Gallery Opening
Christian Jodin
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€495 €248
10 Collectors at a Gallery Opening
Christian Jodin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€299 €150
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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
€1,166 €991
Scarface - The World is Yours
Belart Collective
Print - 101 x 77 x 4 cm Print - 39.8 x 30.3 x 1.6 inch
€2,490
Circus Acrobats
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 49 x 15 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch
€1,599
Her Softness
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500 €915
The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
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
€1,166
L'envole I - préchauffage
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 93 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
€2,200
The Last Museum Guard at the Last Museum on Earth
Hernan Bas
Print - 49 x 35 cm Print - 19.3 x 13.8 inch
€1,200
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.
Discover portraits by Philippe Pasqua, Robert Combas, Guangyu Dai and Erró on Artsper.
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.