Academic Paintings
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
"The Working Man"
By R.V. Rowe
Located in Southampton, NY
34 x 28 overall
Canvas laid down on artist board
Signed lower right
Overall in gold leaf frame 30x24 inches
R.W. Rowe
Circa 1970’s
Category
1970s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Éclaircie
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the Unite...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
“Alpine Cottages”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas painting of Alpine cottages by the German artist, Karl Schaette. Signed lower left “Schaette, Muchen”. Condition is very good. Slight crazing in the trees. Tiny repaired puncture in the sky. Circa 1930. The painting is framed in its original Newcomb Macklin gold leaf frame. Overall measurements framed are 36.5 by 36.5 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate.
Carl Schaette (1884 - 1951) was active/lived in Germany. Carl Schaette is known for Landscape painting and belonged to the Munich school...
Category
1930s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,900 Sale Price
22% Off
Study for Roses Du Matin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Signed "AG" on lower left corner
Dimensions
Framed: 13.5" x 15.5" x 2.5"; Unframed: 7.875" x 10"
Exhibited
Artist's Ch...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Óleo sobre tela - Retrato de caballero con sombrero
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte inferior (desconozco el artista)
Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura
El estado de la pintura es aceptable
Medidas obra: 58 x 48 cm.
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Óleo sobre tela - Retrato de dama con tocado floral
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada
Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura
El estado de la pintura se puede ver, está bastante craquelada y está reentelada
Medidas de la obra: 59 x 45 cm.
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
WINGED GENIUS- original painting by Paula Craioveanu Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Winged Genius", oil on canvas, 70x110cm, 27.5×43.5in
Winged Genius is a fantastic character, a mythological creature, a male figure with birds’ wings, a guardian spirit, a demigod.
...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
“Still Life with Strawberries”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very nicely executed original still life oil painting on fiberboard of strawberries by an unknown artist. Signed lower right, Charles Burch. I believe this painting is quite possibly the work of Edward Pritchard...
Category
1910s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Solothman on the Aase, Switzerland
By Eugene Schmidt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Eugene Schmidt (German/American, 1919-2007)
Title: Solothman on the Aase, Switzerland
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on canvas board
Board size: 10 x 8 inches
Signature...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Stil life with Lobster"
By Martha A. Brockway
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas still life painting of a wine bottle along with a lobster. Signed lower left. Circa 1880. The painting is housed in its original monumental wood gesso and gilt Victoria...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
25% Off
1974 oil painting still life of squashes and grapes by British George Weissbort
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
George Weissbort (Belgian / British, 1928 – 2013)
A SQUASH, A BUNCH OF GRAPES AND A GLASS OF WINE
Oil on canvasboard
18.1/8 x 22 in. (46 x 55.7 cm.)
George Weissbort was born in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Large and Impressive Oil on Canvas "La Place Sainte Gudule, Brussels"
Located in LA, CA
Franz (Bernard) Gailliard (Belgian, 1861-1932) "La Place Sainte Gudule a` Bruxelles Apre`s Le Carnaval" A fine and large oil on canvas depicting a street scene in late 19th century B...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Bird Still Lifes 1871 by Michelangelo Meucci, Oil on Cardboard
Located in Berlin, DE
A finely executed pair of 19th-century trompe-l’œil bird still lifes by Italian painter Michelangelo Meucci (1840–1890), each meticulously rendered in ...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Frawg Hollow, Virginia" Corwin Knapp Linson, Southern Country Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Corwin Knapp Linson
Frawg Hollow, West Virginia
Signed and titled lower left
Oil on canvas
24 x 28 inches
Provenance
The artist
Artist's family by descent
Corwin Knapp Linson was ...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early English watercolour of cottage on lane in Pirbright Constable Contemporary
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very attractive view of a rural lane in Pirbright by this highly collectable artist who was a contemporary and friend of John Constable.
Dr William Crotch (1775-1847)
Mr Pear's House at Pirbright from the Turnpike
Signed with initials on reverse and inscribed as title and additionally " Thunder about/ 1 pm"
watercolour and pencil
4 x 6½ inches without frame
11 x 13 inches with frame
William Crotch (5 July 1775 – 29 December 1847) was an English composer and organist. According to the British musicologist Nicholas Temperley, Crotch was "a child prodigy without parallel in the history of music", and was certainly the most distinguished English musician in his day.
Crotch was a professional musician, becoming the first Principal of the Royal Academy of Music...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Classic Still Life with Fan and Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Still Life, 20th Century
Oil on board
Sight: 16 1/4 x 19 in.
Framed: 19 3/4 x 22 1/4 x 1 in.
Category
20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antoni Costa Woman original Figurative Academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD.
He was ...
Category
1960s Academic Paintings
Materials
Pencil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Humeur Brouillonne
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the Unite...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Emerald Waves, Impressionism Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2024
Style: Impressionism
Title: Emerald Waves
Size: 8.5" x 12" x 0.8...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grand Canal, Venice
Located in New York, NY
Highly respected American painter Warren Sheppard depicts the fishing boats of Venice with their colorful sails along the still waters of the Adriatic Sea. Sheppard is famous for his...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sir Beauchamp, 1880-90 - oil paint, 73x62 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas with its original frame.
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting 19th Century Venice, Canal, Characters
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
ALLEGRE Raymond (1857-1933)
Oil on wood panel signed low left
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim wood panel : 54 X 84 cm
Dim frame : 178 X 108 cm
ALLEGRE Raymond (1857-1933)...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn, Fall, figurative, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Autumn
Size: 19.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'' ...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conversation, figurative, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Conversation
Size: 19" x 23" x 0.8''...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses, Flowers, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2020
Style: Impressionism
Title: Roses
Size: 19.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'' in...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In our Yard, Landscape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Village landscape
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2021
Style: Impressionism
Title: In our Yard
Size: ...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original French Anatomical Study of Horse
s Head
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Anatomical Study of Horse's Head
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Pen
Size: 19.75 (Height) x 12.75 (Width)
Signed: No
Condition: Good, minor di...
Category
20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Pen
$476 Sale Price
30% Off
1974 oil painting still life of strawberries by British artist George Weissbort
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
George Weissbort (Belgian / British, 1928 – 2013)
Strawberries
Oil on canvasboard
Signed and dated ‘G Weissbort 1974’ (lower right)
18.1/4 x 20.1/8 in. (46.3 x 51 cm.)
George We...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lavenders, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Lavenders
Size: 15.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Jerusalem
By Ernst Huber
Located in Jerusalem, IL
"Jerusalem view" by Austrian painter Ernst Huber. The painting with a deep perspective presents the view downward on the city in the motion. We share the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Window, Still Life, Original Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Impressionism
Title: At the Window
Size: 30" x 24" x 0.8'' inch, (76x51x2cm),
Unframed, Stretched on wooden bar, Ready to Hang,
Artist Bio
Ara H. Hakobyan is an Armenian artist and art critic, Doctor of Sciences (arts, 2017), professor (2018) and a member of Artist Union of the Republic of Armenia (1999).
Ara H. Hakobyan was born in 1973 in Yerevan in the family of art historian Hravard Hakobyan. In 1997 Mr. Hakobyan graduated from the Yerevan State Academy of Arts, Department of Painting. During 1997-2000 Ara Hakobyan...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Autumn in the Yard, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2017
Style: Impressionism
Title: Autumn in the Yard
Size: 18" x 14" x...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Rocks, Coastal, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2017
Style: Impressionism
Title: On the Rocks
Size: 24" x 25" x 0.8''...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Evening, City, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2017
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Winter Evening
Size: 16" x 20" x 0...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silence, Contemporary Art, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2012
Style: Expressionism
Title: Silence
Size: 22" x 28" x 0.8'' inch...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fair Student
By Henry Wyatt
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1835' center right
Category
1830s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,500
Marine at twilight from Nederland
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
VAN KOPP (19th Century)
Dutch School
Marine at twilight from Nederland
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame re-gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 50 X 100 cm
Dim Frame : 72 X 1...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
1974 oil painting still life of a mandolin and apple by British George Weissbort
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
George Weissbort (Belgian / British, 1928 – 2013)
A MANDOLIN AND AN APPLE
Oil on canvasboard
18.1/8 x 22 in. (46 x 55.7 cm.)
George Weissbort was born in Brussels in 1928. Seven ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The ribbons bent"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The picture "Stozhki nakhilis" transports the viewer to the winter fairy tale of Transcarpathia, where a sunny day envelops the snow-covered slopes of the mountains with warm rays. O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,625 Sale Price
25% Off
"Sakura is blooming"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The painting "Sakura Blooms" is a true ode to spring, created outdoors in the heart of Transcarpathia. Oleksandr Khrapachov skillfully conveys all the beauty of cherry blossoms, whic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$750 Sale Price
25% Off
Samantha Haring "Release" Oil on paper on panel
Located in New York, NY
Samantha Haring
"Release," 2024
Oil on paper on panel
20 x 20 in.
(hari021)
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Panel
Painting Portrait Young Italian Jewelry Belgian Academic Painter COLLIN 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
André COLLIN
Spa, 1862 – Brussels, 1930
Portrait of a Young Italian Woman
Oil on canvas 57.5 x 41 cm (64 x 47.5 cm with frame)
Signed lower right “A. Collin”
Titled upper right “REGI...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The metamorphosis of a cat
Located in Roma, RM
Etienne Albert Joannon Navier (Lyon 1857 - 1911), The Metamorphosis of a Cat
Oil painting on canvas 68 x 90 cm signed lower left.
The painting has as its subject a fable by Jean D...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Greek / Roman Naturalistic Allegory Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Stormy landscape scene in which a Cupid-like figure seen in the clouds appearing to have shot a number of wounded and dying men in the foreground. The men have a number of women and ...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Port. Batumi"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The painting "Port of Batumi" by Oleksandr Khrapachov is full of legends about the life of the corners of the Black Sea, where the sea ridges and mountain ridges grow together. Paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,500 Sale Price
25% Off
19th Century gouache of a visit to Pompei on the Grand Tour
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Neapolitan school (early 19th Century)
A visit to Pompei on the the Grand Tour
Gouache on paper
Inscribed ‘Porzione del quartiere a Pompei’ and ‘In Nap...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Vue du château de Versailles depuis la place d’Armes
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR
Henry Tenré received a solid training in Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre’s studio at the Julian Academy from 1875 to 1885. Then he studied under the multi-medallist landscape pa...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - L
Insoutenable Légèreté
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Figures at a mill
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
English school, 18th Century
Figures at a mill
Gouache on paper
4.5/8 x 7.1/2 in. (11.8 x 19 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Droit au Coeur
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Noblesse Oblige
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibi...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Female American Orientalist painting ARABS PRAYING outside MOSQUE
Located in New York, NY
Maria Martinetti was born in 1864 in Italy. Martinetti attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, studying under the Orientalist painter Gustavo Simoni. Martinetti exhibited works in...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Crossing", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Crossing" is an oil painting that depicts an elderly man crossing the high water of a river with a young child on...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Au Feu!
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Transmutations: A Study of Systems Substitution, Painting by Mary Fish
By Mary Fish
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mary Fish
Title: Transmutations: A Study of Systems Substitution
Year: 1980
Medium: Ink and Tempera on Paper, signed
Size: 33.5 x 56 in. (85.09 x 142.24 cm)
Category
1980s Academic Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera
Still life pear and grape - Oil on canvas 25x30 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas with frame
unsigned
Total size with frame 31x39 cm
Category
20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Bergère et son troupeau crépuscule, plaine de Barbizon
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jean-Ferdinand Chaigneau was born in the shipping center of Bordeaux on March 6th, 1830. There he studied drawing under the academic painter Jean-Paul Alaux (1788-1858). In 1847...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Orientalist View With Characters - Gouache 1894
By Paul Pascal
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
PASCAL Paul (1832-1903)
Orientalist View With Characters
Gouache on card signed low right and dated 1894
New golden frame
Dim gouache : 42 X 58 cm
Dim Frame : 61 X 78 cm
PASCAL Paul...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Two Landscapes in Pair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Paul ARMANDI (19th Century)
Wood Landscapes by the river
Oils on canvas in pair signed low right
New golden frames
Canvas : 65 X 40 cm
Frame : 83 X 58 cm
Paul ARMANDI is one of ...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fossils, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Fossils" is an oil painting that depicts nude forms suspended in air between highway and underpass.
Elizabeth Z...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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