Portrait painting is a painting or photographic form of expression. Its content must be the main characters are single portraits, usually face are the focus of performance, portrait of the main manifestations are to seize the potential of facial features detailed characterization
Europe portraits painting have a long history of creativity. Greek artist Apelles kings and nobles, who then draw a number of portraits.realist style, looking lively, the characters are quite well behaved temperament. But Europe’s portraits are in the heyday after the 15th century .below is famous portrait painters:
Appiani, Andrea - Italian Neoclassical Painter, 1754-1817
Argunov, Ivan Petrovich - Russian Rococo Era Painter, 1729-1802
Batoni, Pompeo - Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1708-1787
Beaux, Cecilia - American Painter, 1855-1942
Bettes the Elder, John - English Painter, active 1545-1570
Blackburn, Joseph - English-born American Rococo Era Painter, ca.1700-1780
Bonnat, Leon Joseph Florentin - French Academic Painter, 1833-1922
Cassatt, Mary -American Impressionist Painter, 1844-1926
Chappel, Alonzo - American, 1828-1887
Copley, John Singleton - American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815
Drouais, Francois Hubert - French Neoclassical Painter, 1727-1775
Field, Erastus Salisbury - American Folk Artist, 1805-1900
Freud, Lucian - German-born British Painter, born in 1922
Gainsborough, Thomas - English Rococo Era/Romantic Painter, 1727-1788
Hals, Frans - Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1582-1666
Hilliard, Nicholas - English Northern Renaissance Miniaturist, ca.1547-1619
Hans Holbein the Younger - German Northern Renaissance Painter, 1497-1543
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique - French Neoclassical Painter, 1780-1867
Kneller, Godfrey - German-born English Baroque Era Painter, 1646-1723
Lely, Sir Peter -Dutch-born English Baroque Era Painter, 1618-1680
Maes, Nicholaes - Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1634-1693
Modigliani, Amedeo - Italian Expressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1884-1920
Nattier, Jean-Marc - French Rococo Era Painter, 1685-1766
Netscher, Gaspar - Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1635-1684
Perronneau, Jean-Baptiste - French Rococo Era Painter, ca.1715-1783
Prior, William Matthew - American, 1806-1873
Raeburn, Sir Henry - Scottish Romantic Painter, 1756-1823
Ramsay, Allan - Scottish Rococo Era Painter, 1713-1784
Rembrandt van Rijn - Dutch Baroque Era Painter and Engraver, 1606-1669
Reynolds, Joshua - English Rococo Era Painter, 1723-1792
Riesener, Henri Francois - French Painter, 1767-1828
