Romantic Portrait Paintings
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
SERRA AUQUE Portrait spanish girl romantic painter costume 19th
By Enrique Serra y Auque
Located in PARIS, FR
Enrique SERRA AUQUE Barcelona, 1859 - Rome, 1918 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left “ENRIQUE SERRA/ 1892 ” 40 x 33 cm (45 x 38 cm with frame) Nice old frame in wood
Enrique S...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in profile with fan oil on board painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frame size 71x62 cm.
Biography of Gumersindo Vila
Full Name: Gumersindo Vila
Date of Birth: April 14, 1950
Place of Birth: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$594 Sale Price
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Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
By Jose Puyet
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 100x79 cm.
Frameless.
Slight paint chips
Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor...
Category
1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,010 Sale Price
52% Off
A Lady from Seville, 21st Century Contemporary Classical Portrait Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tanvi Pathare
Una Donna Sevillana (A Lady from Seville)
Contemporary Florence Portrait painting
95 x 80 cm oil on linen (frame included in price) size with frame: 104 x 90 cm
Tanvi...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Gemeentehuis Breukelen, The Dutch House, Brooklyn, Breukelen
Located in Cotignac, FR
Dutch Watercolour classical building portrait by Tineke Goedhart. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and resigned, dated and located on t...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Luna, 21st Century Contemporary Classical Portrait Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tanvi Pathare
Luna
Contemporary Florence Portrait painting
Ø 80 cm oil on linen (frame included in price) size with frame: Ø 100 cm
Tanvi Pathare from India attended the Florence A...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Within, 21st Century Contemporary Classical Portrait Painting of a woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tanvi Pathare
Within
Contemporary Florence Portrait painting
105 x 115 cm oil on linen (frame included in price) size with frame: 110 x 120 cm
Tanvi Pathare from India attended the...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Figurative, Horse Painting, Landscape, French Art, Western n°17 by Swan Scalabre
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Western n°17"
Oil on Wood
8 x 10 in.
11 x 13 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze p...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Antique French Oil Painting Portrait of Country Lady in Bonnet with Basket Roses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Picking Roses
French School, late 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,288 Sale Price
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Pair of Oil on Canvas Early 19th Century Portraits of a Man and Woman
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A pair of early 19th century French oil on canvas paintings of a man and woman, probably husband and wife. Neoclassical and Napoleonic in style, these paintings are very well execute...
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figurative Diver Painting, Pool, French Art, Ambition n°30_Swan Scalabre
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Ambition n°30"
Oil on Wood
10 x 8 in.
13 x 11 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$2,640 Sale Price
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"Pipe Smoker" Munich School, 19th. Century, Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Theodor Leopold Weller
Mannheim 1802 - 1880
Pipe Smoker
Oil on canvas
Monogrammed lower right
Size: 72.5 x 62.5 cm
Frame: 83 x 75 cm
Good original condition (slight age-related cr...
Category
1870s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Melancholy female figure oil on canvas painting
By Josep Maria Draper
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Josep María Draper was born in 1931 and received a great creative influence from the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting tha...
Category
1990s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$950 Sale Price
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Mastery IV (Confronting Your Fears)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,040 Sale Price
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"Muses of the Universe"
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Muses of the Universe" is a visual poem about the profound unity of the elements and feminine energy. The images are interconnected and unified in a Single Circle of Power: a self-s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shoemaker at Work - Portrait in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Shoemaker at Work - Portrait in Oil on Masonite
Lovely portrait of a cobbler at work by Max Schneider (German, 1903-1980). The shoemaker is holding a ha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
COUNTRY GIRL- Angelo Granati - Figurative oil on canvas painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Country girl - Angelo Granati Italia 2011 - Oil on canvas cm. 90 x 70.
This is his reinterpretation of painting "Young Shepherdess" by gratest old master William Adolphe Bouguereau.
...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A portrait - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
A subtle miniature portrait of a girl in light delicate colours
KATARZYNA SZYDLOWSKA (born in 1969)
Katarzyna Szydlowska studied at the European Academy of Arts under prof. Jerzy Du...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Best Friend
by Carl Haag, Erlangen 1820 – 1915 Oberwesel a. Rhein, German
Located in Knokke, BE
Carl Haag
Erlangen 1820 – 1915 Oberwesel a. Rhein
German Painter
'A Best Friend'
Signature: Signed middle right
Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: Image size ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
Nostalgy. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative oil on canvas painting by Polish artist Katarzyna Szydlowska. Painting pictures female in nude. She is sitting on the beach, there is sea and cliff behind her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PORTRAIT OF REBECCA AT THE FOUNTAIN - In the Manner of Guffens - Oil on paint
By I. Di Matteo
Located in Napoli, IT
Portrait of rebecca at the fountain - I. Di Matteo Italia 1998 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x60
This magnificent painting by I. De Matteo is the rein...
Category
1990s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Casting, figurative painting (beautiful women and colorful masks)
Located in Segovia, ES
"Casting", painted by the Spanish artist Goyo Domínguez in 1995, is a romantic, colorful picture that smoothly joins the figurative and abstract worlds.
"Casting" was painted with a...
Category
1990s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$18,068 Sale Price
20% Off
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Homme Barbu German School oil on pannel
Located in Pasadena, CA
Pretty portrait representing a portrait of an old shepherd from the German school in Dusseldorf . Oil on pannel
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
P Deltour (?), An artist and his models in the workshop, 1879, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
P Deltour (?) French school of the 19th century
The artist with his model and friend in his workshop
Oil on canvas
Signed "P Deltour" (?) and dated 1879 on the lower, an indistinct i...
Category
1870s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, "Young woman with flower basket"
Located in Berlin, DE
Painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, "Young woman with flower basket"
Signed, F.Bach.
Dimensions with frame 52cm x 72.5cm
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,279 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Girl in Blue Dress - 1920´s Pastel
Located in Stockholm, SE
An enchanting oval portrait capturing a young girl, curled up in an oversized Louis XIV armchair. She wears a deep blue dress, her dark hair neatly arranged and held in place by two ...
Category
1920s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Mid 20th Century Portrait of a Young Woman oil
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine shoulder length portrait of a young woman circa 1940's-1950's Continental School. A fine shoulder length portrait of a young woman circa 1940's-1950's Continental School.
oil ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$712 Sale Price
20% Off
Young Girl Knitting
by Guillaume Eberhard (1879 – 1949) signed and dated 1906
Located in Knokke, BE
Eberhard Guillaume
1879 – Maastricht – 1949
Dutch Painter
'Young Girl Knitting'
Signature: signed lower left and dated 'G Eberhard 1906'
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image siz...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Old Man XIX Oil on canvas
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil painting on panel probably depicting an Orthodox priest of Russian origin.
Dated 1872. Signed but not legible signature
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Man and Woman
Located in Austin, TX
Painting by Peter Plonkin (b. 1879)
32 x 46 inches
Oil on Canvas
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1852 oval Portrait of Marie Potonie (Sievers), Oil Painting
Located in Berlin, DE
Ornate, decorative oil painting.
Illustration of Marie Potonie (born Sievers).
Marie was the daughter of the royal Prussian court painter Johannes Sievers.
Extremely fine painting....
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,726 Sale Price
27% Off
Portrait of a young Girl with a Doll, Basile de Loose, Belgium, 19th, Romantic
By Basile de Loose
Located in Greven, DE
Basile de Loose
Portrait of a Child
signed and dated „1861“
Basile De Loose (17 December 1809 – 24 October 1885) was a Belgian painter.
He was born in Zele, East Flanders, United K...
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Sunday Stroll
Located in Brooklyn, NY
THE SUNDAY STROLL - ADAPTED TO TODAY'S TIMES
Carl Spitzweg, the painter of "The Sunday stroll," was a German genre painter representing the Biedermeier ...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Woman in the garden. Romantic Oil Blue Landscape with beautiful female figure.
Located in Segovia, ES
Woman in the garden. Romantic and full of light landscape with beautiful female figure by the Spanish artist Manuel García Blázquez.
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
Unframed: (H) 89 x (W) 116 (D) 2 cm. / 35.04 x 45.67 x 0.79 in.
Framed: (H) 109 x (W) 136 (D) 4 cm. / 42.91 x 53.54 x 1.57 in.
Light is the protagonist in this landscape with female figure by Manuel García Blázquez; an intense and soft light that interacts with color, and the impressionist technique that defines the work of this painter.
The beautiful silhouette of a woman dressed in white and the reflections of the water in the pond at the back of the garden give the scene a certain luminous dreaminess, which contrasts with the strength of the color of the flowers in the foreground. The background landscape, so timeless and lyrical, serves as the setting for a female portrait with classical reminiscences.
The work is executed along the lines...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Walking Along the Beach, Bauer, German School, 19th Century, Signed P. Bauer
Located in Knokke, BE
Walking Along the Beach
German School
19th Century
Signature: Signed bottom right P. Bauer
Dimensions: Image size 31 x 24 cm, frame size 42 x 32 cm
Medium: Aquarelle
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Girl in Elegant Dress oil painting by Ferdinand Wagner II
Located in Hudson, NY
Canvas measures 21.25" x 19.5" and the frame measures 30.5" x 25.5" x 3"
Ferdinand Wagner II studied art initially with his father, a vocational art teacher. Later he attended the Munich Academy of Arts working closely with Karl von Piloty. Much of Wagner's career focused on commissions as a decorative painter. He did ceiling frescos...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dipinto figurativo impressionista fiorentino ritratto femminile del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il dipinto è firmato e datato in alto a destra MGordigiani 78 e le misure senza cornice sono 58 x 73 cm
Raffigura una fanciulla con lo sguardo incantato, la bocca socchiusa e la test...
Category
1870s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Friends
By William Etty
Located in Miami, FL
The Condition is fair. work has been slightly over-cleaned. A heavy layer of glossy varnish. The surface of the canvas is undulated and most apparent from extreme side view . Yet in...
Category
Early 1800s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Blond Pin up with Perfect Smile Tennis Racket - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Julia (Elsie Julia Miller) Schleicher (Canadian/American, 1916-1988)
she was an important female illustrator
Woman Tennis Player
Pastel and gouache on boa...
Category
1940s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
Category
1960s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Lady Red Rose female half length profile portrait warm soft soothing color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is oil paint on linen canvas mounted on wood framed in a reddish brown color frame
Signed on reverse
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Sleeping Beauty", George Tsui, Original Oil on Canvas, 47x19 in., Figurative
By George Tsui
Located in Dallas, TX
George Tsui's imagination is filled with Chinese themes. The idea of creating his own brand of classic romanticism, unrestrained by conventional reality, w...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Mirror Mirror", George Tsui, Original Oil on Canvas, 47x19 in., Figurative
By George Tsui
Located in Dallas, TX
George Tsui's imagination is filled with Chinese themes. The idea of creating his own brand of classic romanticism, unrestrained by conventional reality, w...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Gold
Despair
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Gold & Despair is my adaptation of Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece "The Woman In Gold", also known as The Mona Lisa of Austria. Having admired the symbolic art of Klimt since my working days as a fine art restorer at Vienna’s prestigious Conservation Institute (Bundesdenkmalamt) in the 1980’s, I conceived the idea to recreate the jewel of his gilded period with an interpretive lens on the looming darkness of the Holocaust and World War II.
As a native of Austria, Salzburg, I have developed an appreciation for Klimt’s art, and Art Nouveau in general. For the last thirty years, I have lived in New York City and worked as a fine art restorer, conservator, and painter as well as in the healing arts.
Klimt had executed The Woman in Gold in the span of four years (1903-1907). My own creative process during 2014-2017, reflects my diligent care and thoroughness in rendering the original painting. In 2014, I started with the preparation of the canvas using Klimt’s original size of 54 x 54 inches (167 x 167 cm). For gesso, I used the traditional method of rabbit skin glue and chalk. For the painting, I used oil paints and genuine 23.5 karat gold in various shades, as well as silver leaves, to magnify the brilliant sheen of Klimt’s gold...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Price Upon Request
Le Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)
Located in Austin, TX
"Le Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)" by French Romantic painter Lazare Meyer (1847-1935)
51.5 x 31.5 in. - Oil Paint on Canvas
Framed
A luminous, two figure composition depicting a ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
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Find a wide variety of authentic Romantic portrait paintings 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 Katarzyna Szydlowska, Jose Puyet , Michele Gordigiani, and Joe Bowler. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint 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 portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 4.5 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait paintings 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 $435 and tops out at $95,000, while the average work sells for $3,226.