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Welcome to r/oilpaintings! Here we post any oil on canvas painting. Please read the rules before commenting or posting, and please post if you can! Logo: Portrait of George III by Allan Ramsay (1762) Banner: The Great Day of Girona by Ramon Martí Alsina (1864) Computer/Browser Background: Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck (1434)

128k subscribers187 posts / mo in Sep 202644 authors / mosince 2021

r/oilpaintings has 128k members (+41% over the last 12 months). It gets about 187 posts a month from 44 people. Top topics: Oil Paintings on Canvas, Oil Paintings and Artists and Landscape Paintings.

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+41%in 12 months · +6.5% in 3 months · +1.3% in 1 month
Oct 2026128k
Growing128k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Jul 2021)
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−57%vs Sep 2025 · −47% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026187
QuieterPeaked at 435 in Sep 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/oilpaintings

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Oil Paintings on Canvas8.3%
  2. Oil Paintings and Artists4.0%
  3. Landscape Paintings3.6%
  4. Van Gogh Paintings3.3%
  5. Old Masters Portraits3.0%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Wikimedia
  2. Artsy
  3. Archive
  4. Christie’s
  5. Smithsonian Institution

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