Public Domain Artwork: Portraits & People

This gallery features a curated collection of classic portrait paintings sourced from public domain painting archives, art museums around the world, and the best vintage art online. Each art print here is available as free printable wall art and formatted for easy at-home printing or professional reproduction. Because everyone deserves beautiful art to print for their home.

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*The images in these galleries are low resolution preview images only and therefore not suitable for printing, to download a HIGH RESOLUTION FILE of any of the images below, simply click on the desired image and you will be taken to the digital gallery archive where that image is hosted. Once there, you will be able to download a high resolution file of your image to print from.

QUICKLY JUMP TO YOUR DESIRED COLLECTION: Current Trending Favorites, The Portrait Collection (By Color): Red, Black/Brown, Beige/White, Purple/Pink, Blue, Green, Yellow, The Children’s Collection, Life Studies, The Nudes Collection.

The current top trending vintage portrait art paintings in the public domain for 2025.

Jozef Israëls “Meditation”
Carl-Holsoe “Interior with the artists wife standing-at a chest of drawers reading”
Torsten Wasastjerna “Head Study”
Viggo Johansen “Kitchen interior. The artist’s wife arranging flowers”
Mary Elizabeth Tripe “Youth”
Thomas Eakins “The Banjo Player”
Frank Edwin Scott “Portrait de Jeune Homme”
John Peter Russell “Vincent van Gogh”
Sir John Lavery “Lady Gwendeline Spencer-Churchill”
George Hendrik Breitner “Modelstudie (Geesje Kwak?)”
Pantaleon Szyndler “Nude of seated woman”
William Merritt Chase “Study Head”

The Portraits & People Gallery (By Color)

A curated collection of the best free printable vintage portrait prints currently available online and in the public domain loosely organized for you here by color.

Carolus-Duran “Study of Lilia”
Edgar Degas “Madame Camus”
George Hendrik Breitner “The Red Kimono”
Henry Perronet Briggs “Ira Aldridge as Othello”
William Merritt Chase “The Young Orphan”
Frans Schwartz “Study Head of a Young Girl”
Henry Calvert ” Portrait of Thomas Cholmondeley, first Lord Delamere, on His Hunter”
Henry Ossawa Tanner “Mother of Henry O. Tanner”
Egge Sturm-Skrla “Männerporträt (Male Portrait)”
John Singer Sargent “Egyptian Woman”
Ľudovít Pitthordt “Head Study of a Woman”
Li Mei-shu “Mrs. Chen Su Jian”
Edgar Degas “Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet”
Nikolaos Gyzis “Head of a hooded monk”
Jozef Hanula “Podobizeň ženy”
Jacques-Raymond Brascassat “Tête de jeune romaine”
Franz von Defregger “Junges Tiroler Dirndl”
Robert Henri “Indian Girl in White Blanket”
Jozef Israëls “Meditation”
Frank Edwin Scott “Portrait de Jeune Homme”
Carolus-Duran “Study of a male head”
Edwin Tryon Billings “George Fuller”
John Peter Russell “Vincent van Gogh”
Július Štetka “Portrait of an old gentleman with a gray chin”
Henry Ossawa Tanner “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother”
George Hendrik Breitner “Modelstudie (Geesje Kwak?)”
William Merritt Chase “Bessie Potter”
François-Auguste Biard “Bust-Length Study of a Man”
Heinrich Wilhelm Trübner “The Reading Girl”
Thomas Eakins “Study for a Portrait of Charles Fussell”
William Merritt Chase “Study Head”
Frank Duveneck “Portrait Of A Lady”
Akseli Gallen-Kallela “Portrait of Edvard Munch”
Unknown (follower of Fancisco de Goya) “Mujer en un mantón gris”
Vilhelm Hammershøi “Portræt af kunstnerens søster Anna Hammershøi set bagfra”
Julius Gari Melchers “Mother and Child”
Ľudovít Pitthordt “Head Study of a [old] Woman”
Giorgio Szoldatics “Autoportrét”
George de Forest Brush “Portrait of Mrs. Brush”
Robert Lee MacCameron “Two musicians”
Gaspar de Crayer “Head of a young Moor”
Emile Alexay “Podobizňa Júliusa Olexáka”
Henri Fantin-Latour “Self-Portrait”
William Merritt Chase “Self-Portrait”
Robert Thegerström “Vilhelm Stenhammar”
Hans Johan Frederik Berg “Portrait of a young man”
Nicolaas Pieneman “Portrait of Hendrik, Prince of the Netherlands”
Charles Jacque_Le vieux berger (the old shepherd)
Henri Fantin-Latour “Édouard Manet”
Ľudovít Čordák “Own Portrait”
Friedrich von Amerling “Portrait of a young woman”
Edvard Munch “Study of a Head”
Karol Smólski “Study of an Italian Woman”
Thomas Eakins “The Banjo Player”
Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez “Mujer indígena con cempasúchil”
Henri Fantin-Lastour “Self Portrait”
Carl Holsøe “Interior with the artist’s wife standing at a chest of drawers reading”
Franz Xaver Kosler “African Beauty In White”
Vilhelm Hammershøi “Woman seen from the Back”
Joaquín Sorolla “Mother”
Ladislav Treskoň “Portrait of a Woman”
Armin Glatter “Girl with a Book”
Jacques-Émile Blanche “Julia Prinsep Stephen, née Jackson”
Antonio Mancini “Donna in Costume del Settecento”
Hanns Sprung “Afrikaner mit weißem Gewand”
Henry Ossawa Tanner “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife”
Li Mei-shu “Sitting Quietly”
Christian Krohg “Braiding her Hair”
Frederick Gottwald “Head of a Woman”
Jozef Israëls “Portret van een vrouw”
Edgar Degas “Madame René de Gas”
Robert Henri “Tam Gan”
Eugène Delacroix “Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Turban”
Balló Aurél “Žena v zelenom”
Elemír Halász-Hradil “Cigánča”
Ladislav Treskoň “Study of a Woman”
Leo Diet “Knabenportrait”
Ferdinand Matthias Zerlacher “Professor Friedrich Becke”
Jean-Baptiste Greuze “Portrait of a Woman”
Henry Scott Tuke “Beach Study”
Julius Victor Berger “Japanese woman in a room”
Michael Peter Ancher “A young girl reading”
Li Mei-shu “Mrs. Li Lin lih”
Alice Pike Barney “The Necklace”
Leopold Carl Müller “Ein Nubier (A Nubian)”
Dominik Skutecký “Head Study of a Gondolier”
Frédéric Bazille “Young Woman with Peonies”
Edgar Degas “A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers”
Isidre Nonell “Consuelo”
Ladislav Mednyánszky (probably) “Resting Lady”
Jozef Hanula “Lost in Thought”
Anders Zorn “Lucy Turner Joy”
Torsten Wasastjerna “Head Study”
Ľudovít Čordák “A study of a sitting old man”
Hans Thoma “Portrait of Ida Müller, née Scholderer”
Jozef Hanula “Study of a Woman from Three Quarters Profile”
Francesco de’ Rossi “Portrait of a Man”
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller “Junge Dame in grau-grünem Samtkleid”
Vlaho Bukovac “Portrait of a Lady with Red hairband”
Li Mei-shu “Self-portrait”
Wilhelm Marstrand “Standing Italian Woman”
Leopold Carl Müller “Porträt einer Ägypterin”
Thomas Wilmer Dewing “Lady in Yellow”
Alice Pike Barney “Endymion”
Carolus-Duran “Untitled”
Mary Elizabeth Tripe “Youth”
Robert Henri “Calero (Antonio Baños)”
Henri Regnault “A Chief of Abyssinia”
Edvard Munch “Studiehode av Birgit Prestøe”
Isaac Israëls “An Elegant Girl In A Hat”
Michael Peter Ancher “A fisherman from Skagen smoking a pipe”
Leopold Carl Muller “Egyptian Singer”
Elemír Halász-Hradil “Elemír Halász-Hradil”
Unknown “Andrew John”

The Children’s Collection

A handpicked selection of the best free printable vintage portrait paintings of children currently available online and in the public domain.

Simon Maris “Isabella”
Jean-Jacques Henner “Fillette blonde”
William Lindsay Windus “The Black Boy”
Robert Henri “Young Sport (Francisco)”
Elizabeth Nourse “Head of a Girl”
Robert Henri “Dutch Girl in White”
George Wesley Bellows “Jackie (Jacqueline Hudson)”
Jozef Israëls “Vincent Willem van Gogh”
John Singer Sargent “Village Children”
William H. Johnson “Little Girl”
Frank Weston Benson “Portrait of a Child Sewing”
Mary Cassatt “Child in a Straw Hat”
Mary Cassatt “Little Girl in a Blue Armchair”
Elemír Halász-Hradil “Ginger Boy”
Ákos Aranyossy “Dievčatko”
Edgar Degas “René de Gas”
Winslow Homer “The Four-Leaf Clover”
Robert Henri “Irish lad”

Human Scenes

A collection of my favorite vintage portrait artwork that take you out of the art studio and into moments of everyday human life.

Edgar Degas “Yellow Dancers (In the Wings)
Honoré Victorin Daumier “The Print Collector”
Edgar Degas “Café Singer”
Winslow Homer “Man with a Knapsack”
Viggo Johansen “Kitchen interior. The artist’s wife arranging flowers”
Christian Krogh “Portrait of the Painter Gerhard Munthe”
James McNeill Whistler “Wapping”
Thomas Eakins “The Biglin Brothers Racing”
John Singer Sargent “Nonchaloir (Repose)”
Edgar Degas “Four Dancers”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec “At the Moulin Rouge”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec “Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in ‘Chilpéric’”

The Nudes Collection

A tastefully sourced gallery of vintage nude paintings currently available as free printable art.

Jozef Hanula “Study of Female Nude”
Albert Edelfelt “Male Model, Academy Study”
Pantaleon Szyndler “Nude of seated woman”
Gustaf Cederström “Nude”
Thomas Eakins “Female Model”
William Etty “Kneeling nude”
William Etty “Male Nude, Kneeling, from the Back”
Sigismund Righini “Female, Sitting Nude”
Franz von Defregger “Nude With Red Drape”
Albert Edelfelt “Seated Man”
Elemír Halász-Hradil “Akt”
Félix Ziem “Femme nue assise, vue de dos”
Ubaldo Gandolfi “A Male Nude Seen from Behind”
Isidore Pils “Study of a Reclining Nude”
Vlaho Bukovac “Weiblicher Halbakt”
Robert Henri “Nude”
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux “Femme nue (étude)”
Leo Putz “In the Seraglio”

For more information on artwork in the Public Domain, how these portrait prints can be used, best practices for printing these free artwork downloads and my personal thoughts on the public domain artwork, please read the information at the bottom of my main gallery page HERE.

Please note that this is my personal curated collection of vintage portrait art paintings and only the merest drop in the bucket of what is available in the public domain. If you want to hunt for your own free printable vintage artwork in the public domain, you can find my list of favorite sources here!

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