Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
ROMANTIC STYLE
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Style: Romantic
The Rabbit and The Cat
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pair of drawings on paper of a rabbit and a cat by Margaret Lisel. They are both signed bottom right and dated for 1934. The drawings are presented as a pair in plain gilt frames.
A...
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1930s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Resting Dromedar, 1861
Located in Stockholm, SE
Egron Sellif Lundgren (1815–1875) Sweden
Resting Dromedar, 1861
watercolour heightened with white
unframed 21 x 29.2 cm (8 ¼ x 11 ½ in.)
framed 40 x 48 cm (15 ¾ x 18 ⅞ in.)
Provenance:
Sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 12 December 1894, lot 42;
Signe and Ernst Trygger (1857–1943), Villa Trygger, Stockholm. Ernst Trygger was Swedish Prime Minister (1923–24), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1928–30) and University Chancellor (1926–37); A Swedish private collection.
Literature:
Förteckning på oljemålningar, aquareller och handteckningar m.m. av Egron Lundgren utställda i Akademien för de fria konsterna, 1876, no. 259.
Karl Asplund, Egron Lundgren, Vol. II, 1940, p. 40, note 1, p. 166.
Exhibited:
The Royal Academy, Egron Lundgren, 10 April 1876, no. 259.
Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Memorial Exhibition, February 1915, no. 70, Hvilande kameler (owner Ernst Trygger).
The Royal Academy, Svenska Akvareller (Swedish Watercolor Exhibition), 1925, no. 224, Vilande kameler (owner Signe Trygger).
Essay:
This delicate watercolour, executed during Lundgren’s first journey to Egypt in the winter of 1861–62, depicts a resting dromedary in the shade at Giza. Painted in transparent washes with touches of white gouache, the work captures the intense desert light and atmosphere with a remarkable immediacy. The reclining animal dominates the composition, rendered in warm ochres and browns against a cool, shadowy background, while highlights on its saddle and coat give the scene a subtle radiance. The quiet stillness of the subject reflects Lundgren’s sensitivity to the everyday motifs of the Orient, which he observed and painted directly on site.
Lundgren travelled to Egypt in the company of two British artists, Frank Dillon (1823-1909) and George Price Boyce...
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1860s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
One Thousand And One Nights French Orientalism Art Nouveau Decorative Period
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
A. Lesueur
French 19ème siècle
Les Mille Et Une Nuits – One Thousand & One Nights, 1892
Charcoal on paper heightened with white.
Signed & dated 1892 lower right.
Image size 23.6 inc...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
19th Century French School, Studies of horses and small scenes, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
19th Century French School,
Studies of horses and small scenes,
pencil on paper
14.5 x 21 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 32.7 cm
This study sheet, which brings together studies of horses and...
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1850s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Modern British, 20th Century St. Ives artist, Sven Berlin
Running Hare
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Running Hare
Black and brown ink on paper
15.3/4 x 22 in. (40 x 55.8 cm.)
Category
20th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Christmas night with Donkeys, a Robin and Lambs in a stable by a crib
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
Category
1990s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Noble Hunting Society wild Boar Deer and Dogs, Hunter
s Life, 1822, Watercolour
Located in Greven, DE
This Watercolor drawing shows a noble hunting society. The duke (?) on horse and several noble ladies accompanying the soctiety. The duke (?) gestures towards a group of hunters on h...
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19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,249 Sale Price
20% Off
French Orientalist Art, Old Master Drawing Elephants, Hunt and Soldiers, Nature
Located in Greven, DE
Guignet was born in Annecy and grew up in the city of Autun. He was a friend of Hippolyte Michaud. He was a rather popular orientalist painter in h...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
$912 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Horse "Heads, Hooves, Rump 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Study
"Heads, Hooves and Rump, 1838"
Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Pencil on paper
Signed and Dated "W Verschuuur 1838"
10 x 6 1/2 (17 1/2 x 14 frame) inches
In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed and celebrated painter of horses. Through careful observation he learned to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action.
He was born to an Amsterdam jeweler and received his training from the landscape and cattle painters Pieter Gerardus van Os and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter Philips Wouwerman. Like Wouwerman, Verschuur's subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscape. These works reflect the enduring influence of the northern Baroque masters on nineteenth century art, revealing the artist's close study of his Dutch and Flemish predecessors harking back to Peter Paul Rubens.
Showing talent from a very early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the "Exhibition of Living Masters" at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at Felix Meritis. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists' society, Arti et Amicitiae.
His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855 Napoleon III purchased one of his paintings at the Exposition Universelle* in Paris.
The Verschuur horse revels in its physicality, like a quintessential Baroque horse...
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1830s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Landscape with cattle in watercolor
Located in DEVENTER, NL
This beautifully excecuted landscape with cattle in watercolor was made by Abraham Hendrik Winter (1800-1861). Winter was born in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in 1800 and was a teacher ...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Egyptian Buffalo
Farmers 19th Century American Orientalist Framed Watercolor
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks.
American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ).
Egyptian Buffalo And Farmers, Egypt.
Watercolor On Paper.
Monogram Lower Right.
Image size 5.1 inches x 8.3 inches ( 13cm x 21cm ).
F...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique Horse Study; Legs and Rumps, 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Study
"Legs and Rumps, 1838"
Wouterus Verschuur l (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Pencil on paper
Signed and Dated "W Verschuur 1838"
10 x 6 1/2 (17 1/2 x 14 frame) inches
In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed and celebrated painter of horses. Through careful observation he learned to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action.
He was born to an Amsterdam jeweler and received his training from the landscape and cattle painters Pieter Gerardus van Os and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter Philips Wouwerman. Like Wouwerman, Verschuur's subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscape. These works reflect the enduring influence of the northern Baroque masters on nineteenth century art, revealing the artist's close study of his Dutch and Flemish predecessors harking back to Peter Paul Rubens.
Showing talent from a very early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the "Exhibition of Living Masters" at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at Felix Meritis. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists' society, Arti et Amicitiae.
His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855 Napoleon III purchased one of his paintings at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
The Verschuur horse revels in its physicality, like a quintessential Baroque horse...
Category
1830s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Rural Landscape With Cows and Horses, Watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist who was a Swedish artist born in 1891 and passed away in 1984.
Linnqvist, known for his association with the Naïvist movement, often described as...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
An English Terrier Puppy with a Kitten playing with a Christmas decorations
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting a terrier puppy with a kitten playing with a Christmas decoration under the Christmas tree
This piece was drawn as an illustration f...
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1990s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Crows, Brush, Watercolour on Paper, Set of 14 works by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Dipen Bose
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Dipen Bose
Brush & Watercolour on paper
7.5 x 5 inches, 1961-64 (each)
Paintings on both sides of the paper.
Extraordinary and Unique.
(Set of 7 Reversible Works) - Recto - Verso
(F...
Category
1960s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Christmas night with Donkeys, a Robin and Lambs in a stable by a crib
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
Category
1990s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jack Russell Puppies seated with a Kitten
By Debbie Allwright
Located in Woodbury, CT
Debbie Allwright is an English painter and book illustrated. Her skill and quality of drawing is first rate.
Category
1990s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modern British, 20th Century St. Ives artist, Sven Berlin,
Equus
drawing
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Equus
Pen and ink
7.7/8 x 12.3/4 in. (19.7 x 32.4 cm.)
Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th September 1911, was an English painter, draug...
Category
20th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
An English scene of a Donkey and Rabbits in a field, with wild flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
Category
1990s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Étude Pour Une Chasse au Lion
Located in New York, NY
Étude pour une chasse au lion by Eugene Delacroix (1789-1863)
Catalogue raisonne reference: Alfred Robalt 733.
Christie’s provenance.
Description:
Eugene Delacroix was a famous French Romantic painter whose career is seen to this day as imperative in the shaping of the French Romantic school. He studied at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand and Lycee Pierre Corneille. He was inspired by Baroque painters like Peter Paul Rubens, incorporating the extravagance of early Flemish painting into his work. He was often seen as in direct opposition to the established French Neoclassical school which included artists like Ingres and David. Nevertheless, Delacroix maintained his career as an artist through history paintings and later political paintings such as "Liberty Leading the People...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Modern British, 20th Century St. Ives artist, Sven Berlin drawing of a Cockerell
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Cock
Black felt pen on paper
Inscribed with title (lower left)
11.3/4 x 14 in. (29.7 x 35.5 cm.)
Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th Sep...
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20th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Modern British, 20th Century St. Ives artist, Sven Berlin, Swan landing
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
A Swan landing
Pen and ink
14.1/2 x 14.1/2 in. (36.8 x 36.8 cm.)
Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th September 1911, was an English paint...
Category
20th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
British St. Ives artist Sven Berlin
Owl in flight
drawing, 20th Century
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Owl in flight #2
Pen and ink
7.7/8 x 11 in. (19.7 x 28 cm.)
Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th September 1911, was an English painter, d...
Category
20th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
France 19th Century, Peasants and donkeys at the fountain in Italy, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Peasants and donkeys at the fountain, in Italy
watercolor with heightenings of gouache on paper
27.5 x 34.5 cm
No frame, no mat
A charming, well-execut...
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1880s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Crows Series, Watercolour on paper, Rare Art by Indian Bengal Artist "In Stock"
By Dipen Bose
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rare Collectible by Bengal School Artist
Artist : Dipen Bose
Medium : Watercolours on paper
Size : 7.5 x 5 inches
Paintings on both sides of the paper.
Extraordinary and Unique.
Here the master artist shows very subtly the command he has over the brush. The dramatic effect that Monotone watercolours created, to play and tantalise all of our senses.
Effortlessly executed, one cannot miss the expertise and uniqueness in the works. Even the less dense watercolours, speaks to its viewers. Its never been easier to connect with watercolours and its essence.
Bengal Master Artist Dipen Bose (1921-1964)
Born in Calcutta, West Bengal.
Education :
Self-taught artist with no academic training in art.
1942 Completed Graduation, Calcutta.
Grandfather, Nagendra Bose inspired him to start painting.
Learnt the technique of oil painting from artist Debi Prasad Roychowdhury.
1947 Started to paint after giving up his job at Central Excise Service, Calcutta.
His association with the Indian Institute of Art and Industry and Indian Society of Oriental Art played a vital role in his life.
He was close to Indra Dugar.
Associated with Art in Industry and Rachana till 1952.
These associations inspired him towards traditional Indian Art, French Impressionism and Chinese Art. 1953 His painting was presented to the President, Federal Republic of Germany by Govt. of India. Dipen Bose Wrote articles on art in newspapers and journals.
Style : For inspiration and evolving a personal style, Dipen looked at part of the history of art that seemed useful- Jain and Kangra painting...
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1960s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Crows Series, Watercolour on paper, Rare Art by Indian Bengal Artist "In Stock"
By Dipen Bose
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rare Collectible by Bengal School Artist
Artist : Dipen Bose
Medium : Watercolour on paper
Size : 7.5 x 5 inches
Paintings on both sides of the paper.
...
Category
1960s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Louis-Eugène Lambert (1825-1900) The Mountain and the mouse, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Eugène Lambert (1825-1900)
La Montagne qui accouche d'une souris (The Mountain and the mouse)
Pen and black ink, ink wash on paper
Signed lower ...
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1870s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
British 20th Century St. Ives artist Sven Berlin
Stag
drawing
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Stag on alert
Pen and ink
Signed and dated 'SVEN 95' (lower edge)
7.7/8 x 11 in. (20 x 28 cm.)
Sven Berlin, born in Syd...
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20th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Charm
Located in Paris, IDF
Multigrade pencils on cotton paper (Washi) marouflaged on Japanese wooden panel - dyptich
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had ...
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2010s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Panel, Pencil
Tropical Landscape with Palm Trees and Flamingo, German Romantic Art, Nature Art
Located in Greven, DE
Signed Pencil Drawing by Andreas Geist, a German painter of animals and theatre sceneries.
Andreas Geist was born as the son of the painter Joseph Gei...
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19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper
Romantic animal drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Romantic animal drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Dipen Bose, Diana Matthes, Debbie Allwright, and Henry Louis Dupray . Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Watercolor and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Romantic animal drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 5.91 inches across are also available. Prices for animal drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $300 and tops out at $12,000, while the average work sells for $850.
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