Early 18th Century Portrait Paintings

Early 18th-Century Italian Venetian Portrait Painting on Glass This wonderful early 18th-century portrait of a lady holding a small dog is a classic example of reverse glass painting...

Portrait of a Nobleman, English School Oil Painting, Early 18th Century English School, early 18th century oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 38.5 x 33 inches Provenance: private col...

The Madonna, Christ Child and St. John Italian Old Master, circa 1700's period oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas: 28.5 x 24 inches conditon: overall very good for its age, a fe...

This strong Dutch Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to a follower of Anthony Van Dyck. Van Dyck painted the original portrait in 1618 as he noted top right Anno 1618. He...

Joseph Highmore (London 1692-1780 Canterbury) Portrait of a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath, c. 1725-35 Previously identified as Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth (1752...

Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet Canvas Size: 50 x 40" (127 x 102cm) Outside Frame Size: 58 x 48" (147 x 122cm) Unsigned but a catalogued attribution. Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet (1628 – ...

Portrait of a Noble Lady French, circa 1730-1750 period Circle of Philippe Mercier (French, 1689-1760) unsigned oil on canvas, framed framed: 38 x 30 inches canvas: 36 x 28 inches P...

Circle of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (French, 1671–1737) Portraits of a Moorish Prince and Princess c. 1700 Pair of oil paintings on canvas, unsigned framed in carved gilt wood frames D...

Portrait of a Noble Lady French School, early 1700's period oil painting on copper, unframed copper: 5 x 3 inches condition: very good, minor paint fading and deteriation. provenanc...

A rare late 17th century religious work portraying a Catholic priest, likely a Jesuit, holding a burning heart inscribed with the Latin word 'Charitas', symbolizing the sitter’s divi...

This splendid early 18th-century oil painting by Dutch artist Philippus Vilain (c.1659-1729) depicts a gentleman dressed in black armour, standing beside a plumed helmet and holding ...

This refined early 18th-century Flemish oil painting depicts a gentleman dressed in a red robe, a fancy lace cravat and cascading cuffs. His wig falls in masses, framing his introspe...

This early 18th-century oil painting by English artist Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) depicts Thomas Marsh Esq. (c.1667-1739), a Kent landowner and senior militia officer, shown at appr...

An 18th century devotional portrait of a religious saint, possibly Mary Magdalene. On panel. Image size: 13 x 8.5cm.

Willem van Kessel (c.1691–1727) – Portrait of a Bewigged Gentleman in Armour, 1713 A highly decorative and striking oil painting depicting a bewigged gentleman clad in a suit of arm...

18th Century French Rococò Painting An oil on panel painting attributed to the great French artist of the eighth century, Jean Ra...

Portrait Traditionally Identified as Lady Mary Somerset, Duchess of Ormonde (1665–1733), 18th Century Michael Dahl (1656-1743) Large 18th Century portrait of a lady traditionally i...

US buyers pay no import tariffs on this painting. This early 18th-century English School portrait depicts Thomas Stanley wearing a striking red velvet suit, white cravat and powdere...

Artist/ School: English School, circa 1740's Title: Portrait of a Lady, traditionally identified as 'Anne of Chesterfield'. Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: painting: ...

Moses Striking Water from the Rock; Circle of Pietro Dandini, Italian 1646-1712 Italian School, late 17th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 3...

Portrait of a Bishop with a Crosier, 1700. The painting depicts a holy bishop or a high-ranking prelate, shown in a half-length portrait with his face in three-quarter profile to the...

Portrait of a woman with jewelry, early 18th-century Dutch school by painter Gérard Wigama (1673-1741). Monogram in the lower right corner on the base of the GW column. Fine Arts exp...

Portrait of a lady in a masquerade costume by François de Troy (1645–1730) Signed lower right: peint… de Troy… 18th century France, Paris, circa 1715-1720. Canvas: h. 81 cm, w. 65 cm...

Nicolas de LARGILLIERRE (Paris 1656 - 1746) Portrait of Louis-Urbain Le Peletier, Marquis de Rosanbo, Master of Requests (1662-1730) Oil on canvas H. 75 cm; L. 60 cm Unsigned Proven...

This elegant early 18th-century oil painting by French master portraitist Nicolas Fouché (1653-1733) depicts a young lady representing an allegory of Flora, the goddess of flowers an...

A fine portrait of Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) after Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). Lanier was a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, performer, and the court musician and ‘Master...

An exceptional 18th century devotional portrait depicting Christ as the Man of Sorrows, crowned with thorns in a moment of sacred suffering. Rich in biblical symbolism, the compositi...

This simply superb French Old Master self portrait oil painting is attributed to portrait artist Alexis Grimou. Painted circa 1720 it is a bust length standing portrait of the artist...

Portrait of a noble lady, Early 18th century French school, circa 1700 attributed to Alexis Simon Belle (1674-1734) (not signed) Oil on canvas, dimensions: h. 71 cm, w. 58 cm A 17th...

Portrait of a Gentleman Robert Le Vrac Tournières (1667-1752) (no visible signature) 18th century French School, circa 1725 Oil on canvas Dimensions: h. 81 cm, w. 64 cm. Important gi...

This sumptuous early 18th-century portrait by leading French artist Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760) depicts Baron Pierre de Gaultier, a nobleman and diplomat active during the final y...

This fine 18th-century portrait depicts a distinguished gentleman. The subject wears a powdered wig and a silk cravat, both emblematic of his high social standing. His composed gaze ...

Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Southwell (neé Cromwell), as the Magdalene, half-length wearing a red dress with black veil, a prayer book by her side Oil on canvas, circa 1705 In a ca...

Portrait of a young Lady Robert Le Vrac Tournières (1667-1752) 18th century French school, circa 1725 Oil on canvas Dimensions: h. 81 cm, w. 65 cm Important 18th century Régence per...

Portrait of a Lady as Venus ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE GOBERT (1662-1744) FRENCH SCHOOL AROUND 1720 OIL ON CANVAS: H. 55.51 in, W. 42.91 in. IMPORTANT 18TH CENTURY GILTWOOD FRAME (RE-GILT)...

Artist: Antonio Mercurio Amorosi (Comunanza, Italy, 1660 - 1738) Title: Portrait of a little girl with cat Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 42 x 31.5 cm – with frame 5...

This charming 18th century portrait depicts a young girl with dark eyes and hair and a direct gaze, said to be Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire. Rendered with sweeping ...

Enoch Seeman Canvas Size: 30 x 25" (76 x 62cm) Outside Frame Size: 37 x 32" (92 x 80cm) 1694-1744 He was born in Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland, around 1694. His father, also Enoch...

Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet Canvas Size: 50 x 40" (127 x 102cm) Outside Frame Size: 58 x 48" (147 x 122cm) Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet (1628 – 11 January ...

Provenance : Arnold S. Kirkeby (1901-1962) Donated by Arnold S. Kirkeby to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1955, where it remained until its sale at Sotheby's, New York on January 10, 1991, lot 82. Christie's, London, July 7, 2010, lot 186, where it was purchased after the sale by the executors of the will of the late Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) for display at Exbury House The Trustees of Exbury House Literature : R. Brown, Bulletin of the Art Division, Los Angeles County Museum, VIII, 1957, pp.8-9, no. 4; S. Schaefer and P. Husco, European Paintings and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, 1987), p. 53 (illustrated and dated c. 1735) This sumptuous ceremonial portrait, executed around 1725-1730, depicts Monsieur Aubert, the French General Comptroller of Bridges and Roadways, as we learn from a letter on the desk beside our model. The virtuoso treatment of the fabrics, the authoritative yet confident pose, the vigorous treatment of the two hands, are representative of Largillière's talent, here at the peak of his art as portraitist. The portrait also has a rather extraordinary provenance: donated by Arnold S. Kirkeby, an American hotel magnate and real estate developer, it was exhibited during almost forty years in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum, before being acquired in 2010 by the executors of Edmund de Rothschild's will to adorn his former home Exbury House (Hampshire), where it remained until its sale in 2022. 1. Nicolas de Largillière, a great European portraitist Nicolas de Largillière (or Largillierre), one of Europe's premier painters of portraits, history paintings, and still lifes during the late seventeenth century and the first four decades of the eighteenth, was born in Paris in 1656. He was the son of a hatmaker and merchant who moved with his family to Antwerp in 1659. As a boy of nine, he traveled for the first time to London in the company of an associate of his father. After returning to Antwerp more than a year later, his artistic gifts were recognized and his father apprenticed him to Antoni Goubau (1616-1698), a painter genre scenes and landscapes. Something of a prodigy, he was admitted to the painters' Guild of Saint Luke when he was only seventeen. In 1675 he made a second trip to London, where he was employed at Windsor Castle and worked as a restorer under the direction of Italian painter and decorator Antonio Verrio (c. 1639-1707), who brought him to the attention of King Charles II (r. 1660-1685). At this time Largillière painted several still life paintings in the manner of the Dutch and Flemish masters. Thereafter he practiced this branch of painting with consummate skill, a talent that allowed him to make brilliant use of flowers, fruit, and animals in some of his most ambitious portraits and contemporary history pictures. In 1679 Largillière settled in Paris, where he specialized in baroque portraiture in the grand manner of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), and Peter Lely (1618-1680). The Flemish battle painter Adam Frans van der Meulen (1631 or 1632-1690) introduced him to Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) who, as First Painter to King Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) and director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, was the predominant figure in France's official art establishment. Upon his acceptance as a candidate for admission to the Académie, he agreed to execute as his diploma picture a large portrait of Le Brun (completed 1686, Paris, Musée du Louvre, eight photo in the gallery) seated in his studio surrounded by the accoutrements of his art and an oil study for the ceiling of Galerie des Glaces at Versailles. In 1686, Largillière made a final trip to England, where he painted portraits of the newly crowned king, James II (r. 1685-1688) (Greenwich, National Maritime Museum) and his consort Mary of Modena...

This splendid early 18th-century French oil painting represents an ‘ex-voto’ with Emilian Jacobin and a depiction of the Virgin Mary with Christ and angels. Ex votos are votive offe...

This lovely Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle of Michael Dahl. Painted circa 1710 the sitter is Rachel Missing, wife of Roger Hogg of Newliston, near Edinb...

This superb Italian Old Master religious portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Bartolomeo Schedoni. Painted circa 1700 it is a half l...

Johann Zoffany, R.A. (1733-1810) A Portrait of William Stackhouse (1720-71), Full Length, seated in an Interior Oil on Canvas No signature Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter;...

Italian painter (18th century) - Cronus. 90.5 x 106 cm. Oil on canvas, unframed (not signed). The painting depicts Cronus, Greek deity of time and the harvest, in a composition of...

Portrait of Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon Studio of Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743), circa 1710 Oil on canvas, not signed, dimensions: h. 80 cm, w. 63 cm Finely carved gilded wooden...

The Infant Christ, St John the Baptist & The Lamb, 18th Century Spanish School Large 18th Century Spanish School depiction of Christ, St John and the lamb, oil on canvas. Excellent...

This charming 18th-century portrait depicts a fashionable young lady of evident wealth and refinement, her lustrous multi-strand pearls and elegant low-cut silk gown speaking to her ...

Beautiful Antique Portrait – Circle of Alexis Grimou -unsigned – Elegance and Refinement of the 18th Century Magnificent 18th-century female portrait, presented as a work from the c...

Portrait of a Lady with carnations By Jean Ranc (Montpellier 1674 - Madrid 1735), circa 1700 Oil on canvas in oval shape, Dimensions: h. 35.82, w. 28.34 in. Period Louis XIV giltwood and carved frame with laurel leaves. Framed dimensions: h. 42.52 in, w. 33.85 in. Provenance: Collection of the Marquis de Bailleul at the Château d'Angerville-Bailleul (before 1942). To be included in the catalog raisonné of the artist by Stephane Perreau Important portrait of a young woman depicted half-length turned three-quarters, her face looking at the viewer. Dressed in a brick red velvet dress, an elegant blue scarf envelops her figure. Hair styled “a la Fontange”, her powdered hair is raised and tied at the back with a red ribbon, several curly locks escape from her bun and fall on her back and shoulders. The perfectly oval face with regular features dominated by her straight nose is softened by her gray eyes with slightly lowered lids. The red tinged skin tones on the cheeks and cheekbones color the face and make the portrait come alive. The young woman is portrayed standing near a pot of carnations. Her strongly lighted figure stands out against an architectural background of columns. The artist's palette is made of contrasts opposing warm to cold hues. The icy electric blue contrasts with the fiery brick red, the hair powdered with white accentuates even more the flush of the cheeks. The left arm bent at the elbow, extending the open hand with slightly bent fingers in the foreground brings depth to the composition. Our portrait, an interesting testimony in the corpus of works of the painter, is part of his youthful period, around 1700-1705. The former belonging of this portrait to the Marquis de Bailleul reinforces the remarkable character of our painting. The portrait has been examined by Stéphane Perreau, specialist of Jean Ranc and will be included in the catalog raisonné currently being written, under number P. 43. The notice edited by Mr Perreau is below: "Painted around 1700-1705, this portrait of a woman is directly inherited from Hyacinthe Rigaud, the master of Jean Ranc (the hand turned over the front, in a watch...

This charming 18th-century miniature depicts a pious St Peter, looking up to the heavens in devotion. Peter is depicted in red and blue, symbolizing his dual roles as a passionate ap...

Dominicus van der Smissen Early 18th Century Portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch Oil on canvas Image size: 20½ x 16¼ inches Period gilt frame This is a portrait of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, composer, Kapellmeister and organist, whom Van der Smissen most probably portrayed during his stay in Hamburg, Brunswick or Amsterdam. The identification is based on the reproduction of the portrait which was engraved by Pieter Anthony Wakkerdak (1740- 1774). Van der Smissen has reduced the face of the sitters to an egg-shaped oval in three-quarter view, applying diminution to one half of the figure’s torso, which is farther away from the viewer. This partial side view, with the head turned to look at the viewer over the shoulder, creates spatial depth and brings the figure to life by avoiding the stiffness of a frontal depiction. Because the artist chose to highlight the figure from above, a distinct shadow is cast under the tip of the nose, in the shape of a triangle. This is an often recurring and almost ‘signature’-like feature in Van der Smissen’s oeuvre. Hurlebusch's garments are of a very high quality and serve to reflect the sitter’s wealth, status and elegance. During this period, gentlemen often shaved their heads in order to facilitate the wearing of a wig, which wouldbe worn with a suit. Here Hurlebusch has been depicted in a luxurious turban-like cap lined with lynx fur, a highly fashionable and expensive material at the time. Over his shirt, he wears a velvet fur-lined gown adorned with decorative clasps fashioned from silver braid. The elegant informality of his appearance can be seen in his unbuttoned shirt and the unfastened black ribbon hanging from his button hole, which has been artfully arranged into a fluttering drape by the portraitist. The Sitter Hurlebusch was born in Brunswick, Germany. He received the first instructions in his field from his father Heinrich Lorenz Hurlebusch, who was also a musician. As an organ virtuoso, he toured Europe, visiting Vienna, Munich and Italy. From 1723 to 1725 he was Kapellmeister in Stockholm; later he became Kapellmeister in Bayreuth and Brunswick, and lived in Hamburg from 1727 to 1742, where he had contact with fellow composers Johann Mattheson and Georg Philipp Telemann. He made his living composing, performing and teaching. In 1735 and 1736, he is believed to have visited Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, who promoted Hurlebusch’s compositions as the local seller...

A 17th-century miniature depicting a golden-haired lady in profile, painted with exquisite detail on copper. She wears a jewel-studded headband and a red scarf that accentuates her l...

A late 17th/early 18th century Flemish painting measuring 90 x 70 cm without frame and 100 x 80 cm with a contemporary frame. An important characteristic of this painting is its str...

This formal portrait depicts a woman in early 18th-century dress, wearing an elegant dark gown with white lace trim and a red drape or shawl. She holds jasmine flowers in her hand, s...

Early historical portrait in the style of William Aikman believed to be of David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk, a Scottish peer and politician. The work features the central figure ...

A charming study of a determined looking woman seated on a bench surrounded by woven baskets. One hand propped on her him and another through the handle of her basket, she looks to the right with an intense stare. The artist depicts her on a street lined with tall continental buildings on a summer's day. Painted in a style influenced by 18th century artist...

Oil on Canvas. Genoese school of the early 1700s. The man, whom the thick wig places in the realm of the nobility or upper middle class, wears a burnished metal breastplate, under wh...