Romantic Art
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 Showman” after Abraham Le Blond
Located in San Francisco, CA
This itinerant showman, with his drum and what appears to be a peep show, met a real need. What’s offered definitely engages the man in the group, but the woman pawing at his shoulde...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Geraniums and Flowers on a Cottage Staircase, French Mid Century Oil on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
Geraniums and flowers. French Mid Century oil on canvas view of flowers and a cottage by Edouard Le Saout. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a custom wood frame.
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Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Voyeur chair. Romantic Couple Kissing and Embracing, Mid Century Illustration
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...
Category
1950s Romantic Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board
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...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
$1,235 Sale Price
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Lady Macbeth as Regal monarch immobilised in Marble with her reigning in Blooms
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue III’, 2017
Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Dutch Golden Age Romantic Landscape Sunset Figures by River
Arch Bridge Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dutch School, 19th century
signed oil on panel, framed
framed: 17.5 x 21 inches
panel: 14 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Self-portrait in Indonesian Landscape
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Abraham Johannes Romswinckel (1810-1856)
Self-portrait in Indonesian landscape
Inscribed Abr. Joh. Romswinckel, geb. Batavia 17 Oct. 1810, overl...
Category
1820s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting of Napoleon III at the Naval Battle, oil on panel France
Located in Valladolid, ES
Extraordinary oil painting on panel from an exquisite French collection. It retains its original gilded wooden frame. The scene depicts a powerful and chromatic seascape, representin...
Category
1880s Romantic Art
Materials
Panel
Kirkstall Abbey, 19th Century Romantic Moonlight Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
William Henry James Boot
1848 - 1918
Kirkstall Abbey
Oil on canvas, monogrammed lower right and dated 1876
Image size: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm)
Exhibited Royal Academy, 1878 no. 692
Much like his contemporary, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Boot appears to have been influenced by the Pether family who were renowned painters of nocturnes. He was a book illustrator as well as a renowned oil and watercolour artist, producing engravings for the London Illustrated News and Art Journal. He wrote 'Trees and How to Paint Them' in 1883.
Boot was born in Manchester. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1874 to 1884, showing mainly English and Continental landscapes. He is known to have travelled extensively in Germany, France and North Africa.
Boot was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and of the Arts Club, who listed him as a "painter and writer on Gothic architecture". Boot also painted domestic genre and interior scenes but tended to concentrate on landscapes.
Boot lived and married in London. He is buried with his wife in Hampstead.
The subject of this painting, Kirkstall Abbey in Yorkshire, was a place Boot often visited. Three figures to the right gaze admiringly at the view, with the moonlight reflected on the path they stand on.
THIS PAINTING IS IN THE 'MOONLIGHT IN PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLOURS' EXHIBITION CURRENTLY SHOWING AT DARNLEY FINE ART...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Alpine Landscape with Mother and Children" Antique Oil Painting Europe Nature
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size: 29 x 44 in.
Frame Size: 36 x 51 in.
Unsigned
A marvelous antique oil on canvas painting, exemplary of Romantic Dutch painting that depicts a sweeping, dra...
Category
18th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Allegory of Love, Cupid With Beauty in Fine Dress Carrying a Basket of Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 18th Century oil on canvas laid on board of a young beauty in period costume carrying a basket of flowers on her head. Presented in a very fine gilt, period 'Directoire' frame...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Conversando", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Artsit Ángel María Cortellini
Located in Madrid, ES
ÁNGEL MARÍA CORTELLINI
Spanish, 1819 - 1887
CONVERSANDO
signed "Cortellini" (lower right)
oil on canvas
13-1/4 x 11 inches (33.5 x 28 cm.)
framed: 17-1/4 x 15 (44 x 38 cm.)
Ángel María Cortellini. Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), 27.09.1819 – Madrid, 1887. Painter.
Ángel María Cortellini was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 27, 1819, to an Italian father and a Spanish and Sanlúcar mother. Contrary to family opinion, he decided to dedicate himself to painting and already, at the age of nine, he was enrolled in a drawing academy in his hometown. They soon sent him to Seville, where he was a disciple of Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Southern Landscape, Ships, Old Master Drawing, 19th Century, by Von Stengel
Located in Greven, DE
Southern Landscape with View of a Castle and Ships passing by
Pen and brush in brown and black over pencil, brown and grey wash, 17,5 x 22,7cm
Plain black moulding with golden pearl ...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Hand-Me-Downs - Street Children - Waif - Cockney Gutter Imps.
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her i...
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
French Troubadour Religious Painting Monks Relics 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the 19th century
Monks excavate and find ancient relics
Oil on canvas56 x 46.5 cm (68 x 57.5 cm with the frame)
Beautiful period frame in gilded wood
Good condition ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
"Playing hide and seek", 19th Century Oil on Panel by Vicente Palmaroli, Spanish
Located in Madrid, ES
VICNTE PALMAROLI y GONZÁLEZ
Spanish, 1834 - 1896
PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK
signed "V. Palmaroli" (lower right)
oil on mahogany panel
17-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches (45 X 34 cm.)
framed: 25-1/4 X 21-1/4 inches (64 X 53.7 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Leslie Hindman Inc., Auctionners
Private Collector, Madrid
Oil on table by Vicente Palmaroli...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mother with Child, Rose, Old Master, Figurative Painting, Love, Christmas Scene
Located in Greven, DE
L. Franssen
Mother and child with a rose
Oil on wood, 44,5 x 33,5 cm
signed
The artist of this outstanding painting is completely unknown so far. There is no entry under "L. Franssen" in any encyclopaedia or reference work. There was a Dutch artist, Jan Fransen (1604/5 - ca. 1646), who was mainly based in Amsterdam. According to Thieme/Becker, he created numerous paintings with biblical depictions, study heads and still lifes. However, it could also have been Jan Franssen or Frantzen, who was not born until 1644 but was also active in Amsterdam. However, no confirmed works by either artist are known.
Just as interesting as the attribution is the depiction: a young woman holds her child on her lap while she prepares a meal on a hob. At the same time she holds a rose in her hand. Most likely, Mary is depicted here with the young Jesus...
Category
18th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Barnyard Scene, Original Oil Painting
By George William Horlor
Located in Naples, Florida
George William Horlor (British 1819-1899)
George William Horlor was born in Bath around 1819. He married Mary Cook on 15 March 1845 and by 1851 was living in Cheltenha...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
$6,120 Sale Price
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Alabaster temple with mythological figurative bronze figure from the 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Alabaster temple with Corinthian capitals, palmette decoration runs along the rim. On the front, two swans are carved on the base, while there are five rosettes at the top.
In the ce...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
San Marco Venice Zanetti Zilla Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Landscapa
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
View of Piazzetta San Marco towards the Basin and the Island of San Giorgio in Venice
Vittore Zanetti Zilla (Venice 1864 - Milan 1946) signed lower left ‘Zanetti’
Oil on canvas...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
$8,401 Sale Price
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Mother and Child, Ecole de Paris, Large Oil on Canvas
By Guy Cambier
Located in Cotignac, FR
Ecole de Paris, mid century oil on canvas portrait of a mother and child by Guy Cambier. The painting is signed bottom left and there is a very faint chalk inscription with date to the back of the canvas. Presented in a fine custom gilt wood frame.
This exquisite painting captures a tender, timeless moment between a mother and child, rendered with soft, evocative brushstrokes. The palette of muted earth tones with hints of blue and lavender imbues the scene with warmth and serenity. The mother, adorned in flowing robes, gazes downward with a gentle, contemplative expression, while the child's innocent face exudes calm and trust, resting securely in her embrace. The textured background, a blend of abstract patterns, contrasts with the smooth rendering of the figures, enhancing the ethereal atmosphere. The intricate gold frame adds a classic touch, emphasizing the painting's traditional elegance. This piece masterfully balances realism with expressive elements, capturing the universal essence of maternal love and protection. Its timeless appeal invites the viewer to reflect on the enduring bond depicted with grace and sensitivity.
Guy Cambier (1923-2008) was born in Uccle-lez-Bruxelles, Belgium in 1923. He was part of the Post War School of Paris, Ecole De Paris, that included Andre Hambourg, Jean Carzou, Marcel Gromaire and Yolande Ardissone.
At the age of nine years old, he lost the use of his legs caused by a tragic accident. An autodidact he studied the techniques and works of those artists he emulated, Corot and Watteau. Cambier started to exhibit in 1942, first in Belgium and afterwards in France on the Cote d’Azur as well as in the United States and in Paris at the Salon des Peintres Temoins de Leur Temps. In 1957, he received the Parisian award, “Le Prix de la Jeune Peintre”.
He moved to the South of France in 1950 and resided in Grasse, where he spent most of the rest of his life as did so many famous painters at that time.
Cambier became a favourite portrait artist of several celebrities and painted such dignitaries as Princess Grace of Monaco, Winston Churchill, Ingrid Bergman and Edward G Robinson...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem: A Hand-colored Aquatint
Engraving by L. Mayer
By Luigi Mayer
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored aquatint and engraving entitled "Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem", published in London by R. Bowyer in 1804. The print was created by Thomas Milton (1743-1827) from drawings by Luigi Mayer.
This beautiful, detailed, original engraving is printed on deluxe J. Whatman paper with very wide left and right margins. There is a watermark "1801" indicating the year the paper was made. The sheet measures 11.25" high and 16" wide. There is a small faint spot in the upper margin on the left and a tiny faint spot in the right upper corner and another in the left lower corner. The engraving is otherwise in excellent condition with vibrant colors throughout the image.
"The Pool of Bethesda...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Anna
s Aroma, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on panel canvas :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: No :: :: Canvas ...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Glory hole between two buildings, Vriesendorp surrealism, blue and green
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Watercolor by Female Artist Ella Waldenström Depicting A Sewing Woman, 1900
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ella Waldenström (1863–1955) Sweden
A Sewing Woman, 1900
watercolor on paper
signed and dated E.W 23/2 1900
visible image 21 x 12 cm (8 ¼ x 4 ¾ in.)
framed 29 x 20 cm (11 ½ x 7 ¾ ...
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$760 Sale Price
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Wooded Landscape Koekkoek Paint 19th Century Oil on canvas
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (Middelburg 1803 – Cleves 1862) attributable
Wooded landscape with stream
oil on canvas 72 x 91 cm - framed 93 x 113 cm
This evocative wooded view wit...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
$8,401 Sale Price
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A splendid patinated bronze statue by Mathurin Moreau
Located in New York, NY
Patinated bronze figural statue depicting Zephyrus, god of the west wind, as he embraces his bride Flora. The couple are seen draped in flowers as if they have just married.
Flore et...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
"La Nuit" The Night Bronze Female Figural Statue of Psyche
Located in New York, NY
Female figural bronze by Etienne Henry Dumaige (1830-1888) of Psyche with lit Oil Lamp, perched on a stump. Her gaze is incredibly striking, commanding the eye of the viewer. The lam...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
The Wrath of Elihu:
I Am Young, And Ye Are Very Old, Wherefore I Was Afraid.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Wrath of Elihu. 'I Am Young, And Ye Are Very Old, Wherefore I Was Afraid'. 1823-25. Engraving. .Binyon catalog 117 state ii, Bindman catalog 632. Image 7 7/8 x 5 15/16; plate 8 ...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Engraving
Title Page-An Encampment in Ethiopia
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Title Page-An Encampment in Ethiopia
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
Unsigned as is usual
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 3, (36 plates)
Published by Wil...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
fish tank, blue color study, surreal skyscraper, oil painting, Vriesendorp
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Arthur Waagen’s
The Nomadic Virtuoso’ in Patinated metal
Located in New York, NY
Encounter the resonant blend of motion and music in 'The Nomadic Virtuoso,' a captivating painted metal sculpture by Arthur Waagen. This art piece from the late 19th century depicts ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
Women with Dove and Flowers
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sunol Alvar
Title: Women with dove and Flowers
Year: c.1980
Medium: Colors lithograph with embossing
Edition: Numbered 28/195 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 16.75 x 21...
Category
1970s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Petite Marchande de Banane - Orientalist, North African Girl Selling Bananas
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Orientalist painting - The Framed size: 47 inches x 34.5 inches. Magnificent ornate Frame
The paint surface looks like the style of William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Signed lower right.
Provenance: Gallery Label with inventory number: Size on label is in centimeters, which indicates
the painting came from a United Kingdom art gallery.
Subsequently, Robert Funk Fine Art...
Category
1880s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, "Young woman at the well"
Located in Berlin, DE
Painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, "Young woman at the well"
Signed, B. Kern.
Dimensions with frame 61cm x 75cm
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,613 Sale Price
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The Daily Tasks of Rural Life, c. 1860, Romanticism Oil Painting.
Located in Stockholm, SE
This serene landscape painting is by James Howe Carse, a Scottish-Australian artist whose lineage and mentorship are deeply rooted in the artistic traditions of his time. Carse's wor...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Au Bord du Fleuve en Hollande" Dutch 19th century watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Stamp Signed: Jongkind and dated: Sept 84
Inscribed: 30-142 in ink lower right
Provenance:
Private collection, Pennsylvania
Jongkind was born in Lattrop, in the eastern part of The...
Category
1880s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor, Pencil
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 Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$653 Sale Price
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Woman seated on Balcony
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for Saturday Evening Post magazine, 1928. Image of woman seated on balcony, older man looking on. "I feel immensely flattered that you'...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Unique Pair Of Vintage Herbarium Displays. Pressed Botanical/Flower Specimen
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
A unique pair of vintage herbarium / botanical displays collected and created by S. Lindwald in June 1946 in Sweden. These botanical specimen are preserved behind glass in a new doub...
Category
1940s Romantic Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Arizona Landscape – Dramatic Skies and Desert Light by Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this expressive gouache study, Carl Oscar Borg captures the dramatic sweep of the Arizona highlands, where storm clouds gather over layered mesas and valleys bathed in shifting li...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Gouache
Flower maidens,
a large oil-on-canvas painting by Émile Eisman-Semenowsky
Located in London, GB
'Flower maidens,' a large oil-on-canvas painting by Émile Eisman-Semenowsky
French/Polish, Late 19th Century
Frame: height 72.5cm, width 111cm, depth 9cm
Canvas: height 54cm, width 9...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of the Ovo Castle in the Moonlight, a 19th century Neapolitan gouache
Located in PARIS, FR
Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education.
Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home.
The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
Unsigned as is usual
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, (36 plates)
Published by Wi...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
1950s Romantic Art
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
$14,400 Sale Price
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Birger Hjelm – Våreldar ("Spring Fires"), c. 1935
Located in Stockholm, SE
Birger Hjelm – Våreldar ("Spring Fires"), c. 1935-1938
Oil on board
unframed 80 x 84.5 cm (31 ½ x 33 ¼ in)
framed 82 x 87 cm (32 ¼ x 34 ¼ in)
Signed “Birger Hjelm” lower right; titl...
Category
1930s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape with Shepherds and Animals
by Louis - Pierre Verwée ( 1807 – 1877 )
Located in Knokke, BE
Verwée Louis-Pierre
Courtrai 1807 – 1877 Brussels
Belgian Painter
'Landscape with Shepherds and Animals by the Water'
Signature: signed lower right and dated 'L. P. Verwee 1851'
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: image size 43 x 52 cm, frame size 58 x 66 cm
Biography: Louis-Pierre Verwee (also spelled Verwée) was born on March 19, 1807, in Kortrijk, Belgium, and died in Brussels in November 1877. He is widely regarded as the leading representative of the Romantic school in Belgian landscape painting, particularly known for his evocative winter scenes and rural landscapes with cattle.
Verwee left school at an early age to pursue his passion for art. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kortrijk, where he studied under Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, a prominent landscape and animal painter. He later continued his artistic training with Eugène Verboeckhoven in Ghent, who would not only become his mentor but also a lifelong friend and collaborator. The two artists often worked side by side, and Verboeckhoven occasionally painted the figures and animals in Verwee’s landscapes, to such a degree that their early works are sometimes difficult to distinguish.
Verwee followed Verboeckhoven to Brussels and established himself as a successful landscape and animal painter. His preferred subjects were winter and summer scenes, typically populated with figures and animals. His style, particularly in his early work, was closely aligned with that of Verboeckhoven. Over time, he became known for landscapes that reflected the romantic tradition, with compositions echoing the work of Andreas Schelfhout, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Frans Keelhoff, and Johann Bernard Klombeck. His depictions of forests and rivers often employed a dreamy, atmospheric quality that captured the mood and light of nature.
In his later career, Verwee sought artistic innovation but found himself increasingly focused on variations of winter landscapes after 1837. These scenes, popularized by Koekkoek and Schelfhout, were characterized by low-hanging snow clouds, icy waterways, and a cool palette of light blue and metallic grey, creating a moody and intimate ambiance. Occasionally, other artists such as Florent Willems...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Coastal Mountain Cliff Beach Scene Northern Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Coastal Mountain Cliff Beach Scene of Fair Head in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist, David Overend.
Art measures 16 x 12 inches
Frame meas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Figurative, Horse Painting, Landscape, French Art, Western n°16 by Swan Scalabre
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Western n°16"
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 Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Figurative, Horse Painting, Landscape, French Art, Western n°19 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 Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Pair of Romantic landscape paintings (pendant), oil on panel, in gilt wood frame
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Pair of Romantic landscape paintings (pendant) with figures, Inspired by 17th century Dutch landscape painting
Oil on panel
In g...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Handmade Paper
$902 Sale Price
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"Funchal, Madeira Franciscans Convent" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Located in Soquel, CA
"Funchal, Madeira Franciscans Convent" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Delicate and detailed drawing of Funchal, Madeira by Hartford, Connecticut artist Edward Watkins Wells (181...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
Paradise, Garden of Eden, Lithograph on paper, Signed, titled #36/100, Unframed
Located in New York, NY
Helen Siegl
Paradise, 1976
Lithograph on wove paper
Pencil signed, dated and numbered 36/100
Unframed
Provenance: Rodger LaPelle Galleries, PA
depicts a scene reminiscent of the Gard...
Category
1970s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Illustration for W. S. Kenilworth-Lithograph by Camulle Roqueplan-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Camulle Roqueplan (1803-1855) to illustrate Walter Scott's Kenilworth.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
"The Nightmare" - Dark Contemporary Realism Baroque Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983)
"The Nightmare" 2025
Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the side and the back of the painting.
We ship al...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"Ofreciendo una copa", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Ángel María Cortellini
Located in Madrid, ES
ÁNGEL MARÍA CORTELLINI
Spanish, 1819 - 1887
OFRECIENDO UNA COPA
unsigned
oil on canvas
13-1/4 x 11 inches (33.5 x 28 cm.)
framed: 17-1/4 x 15 (44 x 38 cm.)
Ángel María Cortellini. Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), 27.09.1819 – Madrid, 1887. Painter.
Ángel María Cortellini was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 27, 1819, to an Italian father and a Spanish and Sanlúcar mother. Contrary to family opinion, he decided to dedicate himself to painting and already, at the age of nine, he was enrolled in a drawing academy in his hometown. They soon sent him to Seville, where he was a disciple of Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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