portrait
This tag marks artwork centered on a single person or a small group, capturing likeness, personality, and mood through painting, drawing, or photography. A strong portrait takes more than just technical accuracy, it needs to say something about who the subject actually is, not just how they look. Use this tag to browse work built around this most personal and demanding of subjects, the human face, across every medium featured on the site.
Daniel E. Greene
Daniel E. Greene was an American realist painter born in Cincinnati in 1934, who trained at the Art Students League of New York under Robert Brackman and went on to teach…
How 19th Century Plains Indian Culture Shaped Western Art
How Plains Indian life in the 1800s shaped Western art, from early portraits by Catlin and Bodmer to contemporary painters, and why perspective matters.
Akbar Akbari
Akbar Akbari is an Iranian watercolor painter and teacher whose portraits mix precise technique with a quiet emotional warmth. He began his career in 1998 and has spent decades shifting between…
Pavel Sokov
Pavel Sokov is a Russian born portrait painter who left a marketing career to study classical drawing at Watts Atelier. His Gravitas series paints scientists with the same care usually reserved…
John Sloan
John Sloan was an American painter and illustrator who became a leading voice of the Ashcan School, capturing New York street life with grit and warmth. He struggled financially for most…
Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart was an American portrait painter best known for his unfinished portrait of George Washington, the same image that appears on the one dollar bill. He painted more than a…
Anders Zorn
Anders Zorn was a Swedish painter, sculptor, and etcher celebrated for incisive portraits and luminous scenes of water and rural life, working from a famously narrow palette of just four colors.…
Scott Nickerson
Scott Nickerson is an American portrait painter who builds his figures the way old masters did, layering color from dark to light until the skin feels alive. He also teaches weekly…
Jacob Collins
Jacob Collins is an American realist painter who trained at the New York Academy of Art and later in France, building a career around Old Master technique and quiet, observational nudes…
David Hockney
David Hockney is a British painter born in 1937 in Bradford, known for bold color and pop art influenced work that later pushed into digital image making. His paintings hang in…
Paul Cadden
Paul Cadden is a Scottish contemporary artist known for hyperrealistic graphite and chalk drawings that look almost like photographs. He focuses on ordinary faces and street moments, capturing tiny skin textures…
Philip de László
Philip de László was an Anglo-Hungarian painter born in Budapest in 1869, best known for portraits of European royalty including Queen Mary and King Edward VII. He became a British subject…
