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
Asian Love Story - The Good Earth - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Magazine Story Illustration most likely for Cosmopolitan or Woman's Home Companion.
Caption: "'I will not heed these old ones,' said the maid. 'Let us flee together somewhere and ...
Category
1920s Academic Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil
Tug, Seascape, Original oil Painting on Linen, Framed
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2021
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Tug,
Size: 12" x 16.5" x 0.8'' in...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Lady With Parasol in The garden
By Eugène Charles Picou
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
PICOU Eugène Charles (1831–1914) - "Young Girl with parasol" - Oil on canvas signed lower left - Old frame gilded with leaf - Canvas size: 61 X 50 cm...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Ladies and the Dove
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BARON Dominique (19th Century)
The Ladies and the dove
Oil on canvas signed Low Right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 59 X 75 cm
Dim frame : ...
Category
1860s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady at the Flower Market
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEBAS Léonie (19th-20th)
"Lady at the Flower Market in Paris"
Oil on wood panel signed low right
Old Frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim panel : 16 X...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the Beach by a Fishing Village, 1800-e
Located in Atlanta, GA
One Christmas as a 12-year-old boy, John was given a set of oil paints and an easel. Painting revealed a whole new world of colour and texture, and even now, over 40 years later, he ...
Category
18th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Les Marais de Blanchelande II
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
Canvas, Oil
Calligraphy 2
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in 1969
1991, Graduated top of his class at Iranian Society of Calligraphy, Tehran
1993, Graduated from the Wood Industry & Paper-making, Tehran
Sol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Grand Angle
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
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
Rustic Apples and Bread Food Still Life French Salon Academic Antique Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A remarkable work by Charles Nicolas Etienne Mayre, an academic painter born in Choisy le Roi near Paris in 1819. He studied with the masters Michel-Martin Drolling and Leon Cogniet...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wrestler in a Green Singlet: Figurative Oil Painting of an Athlete by Mark Beard
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic figurative oil painting of a muscular male athlete with a vintage green wrestling uniform
"Wrestler in Singlet", Painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (a pseudonym in homage to the figurative painting of John Singer Sargeant and fashion photography by Bruce Weber)
Oil on canvas, signed upper left corner
30 x 20 inches, 34.5 x 24.5 inches in a black painted wood frame
Excellent condition, the frame exhibits some wear consistent with age which is the artist's intention as the painting was made by his fictitious persona "Bruce Sargeant" who painted during the 1930's - 40's.
Artwork description:
This vertical, figurative portrait painting of a muscular male in a green wrestler singlet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Plume, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Plume" is an oil painting that depicts two red head women in the foreground with black fabric and forms cascading around them.
Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning painter with an enthusiastic international following. She developed her artistic voice through her studies at the Aristides Atelier and Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle. Elizabeth finished her education with a fellowship award (Grand Prize, 2nd Annual Utrecht Art...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Three Children in the Garden- original painting 19th Century
By Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Balmer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Balmer Paul Friedrich Wilhelm (1865 - 1922)
Three Children in The Garden (1890)
Oil on canvas signed and dated low right
Old frame regilded with gold le...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flowers
Located in Paris, FR
Marius Vasselon,
1841-1924
"Bouquet de Fleurs dans un Vase "
Oil on canvas,
Signed lower left
Canvas: 29 1/2" high x 23 5/8" wide
Frame: 36 1/4" high x 29 7/8" wide
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape By The Mountain Stream
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape by the mountain Stream
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 94 X 113 cm
MOS...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Rider at Sunset' Equestrian and Horse Oil on Canvas Painting by Chris Brizzard
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
The rapid pace of the ride over a country landscape and the relationship between the rider and horse are felt in this oil on canvas painting by Chris Brizzard...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Plums"
By Oliver Clare
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an outstanding still life painting of plums and assorted fruits by the master English artist, Oliver Clare. Signed lower right. Circa 1890. In very g...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rialto Bridge, Venice by Dellal, 1950
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful oil on canvas of the 50’s figuring a peaceful view of the Rialto on the Grand Canal in Venezia.
The oil is in good condition with some old réfections
visible in the back.
The painting is signed on the bottom right Delall and countersigned on the back.
It comes with a charming old gilted and ornamented in Barocco style...
Category
20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still life with apples and channe by Georges Djakeli - Oil on wood 9x11 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Djakeli G. Officier de cavalerie
Work on wood
Gilded wood frame
13 x 15 x 2 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Education of Achilles by Auguste-Clément Chrétien
By Auguste-Clément Chrétien
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Education of Achilles by the Centaur Chiron
Signed and dated "A.C. Chrétien 1861" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A masterpiece of French N...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Lady at the Writing Desk
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LA BRELY Auguste, de (1838-1906)
Young lady on the writing Desk
Oil on canvas signed low right
Framed by Gault (Paris)
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim frame : 66 X 58 cm
LA BRELY Auguste, de (1838-1906)
French painter 19th century.
Born 1838 in Fuissé (Saône et Loire). Died 20th of April 1906 in Lyon.
Painter of genre scenes, portraits.
Pupil of Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) at the Ecole des beaux-Arts de Paris.
He took part at the Salon de Paris from 1863 to 1882, then Salon de Lyon and cities around. His portraits put emphasis on the finish of the matter and clothes as much as on the model psychology.
Muséeums :
- Paris (Musée Renan-Scheffer) « Victorien Sardou and his family »
- Tournus : « Young woman writing...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alonso PEREZ - Painting Genre Scene in Paris
By Alonso Perez
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
ALONSO PEREZ (1881 - 1914)
Lady and Napoleon Soldier in the Street
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1906 low right
Dedication : Au sympathique maître et...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Four Seasons - Four Original Paintings 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
SCHULTZ Adrien (1851-1931)
The Four Seasons
Four oils on wood signed low right and left
Framed by Gault (Fbg St Honoré - Paris)
Dimensions wood (each) : 63 X 27 cm
Dimensions frame (each) : 75 X 38 cm
SCHULTZ Adrien (1851 / 1931)
French painter - Barbizon School
The son of a Parisian bookseller-publisher, he began working in his father's company, while practicing drawing and painting, often on the banks of the Marne. Noted by landscape artist Louis Émile Dardoize, he continued his apprenticeship in his studio, then in that of painter Hector Hanoteau. He is very close to Narcisse Diaz de la Pena...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Songe d'une Nuit d'Été
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, Panel
Normandy Rouen Cathedral 19th Century Landscape
By Langlois
Located in Paris, FR
Charming impressionist oil on canvas from the late 19th century representing a view of a quay in Rouen on the Seine with a herd on pasture and Rouen Cathedral...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black-Headed Gull
By John Duncan
Located in Southampton, NY
In original gold leaf pierced frame
Signed and dated lower left 1902
Sight size 6 x 8 in
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Current, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Current" is an oil painting that depicts a lone figure in a golden field with clouds holding a floral fabric agai...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Les Marais de Blanchelande
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
Canvas, Oil
1962 oil painting on board still life with sculpture and wine by George Weissbor
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
George Weissbort (Belgian / British, 1928 – 2013)
A glass of wine in a classical study
Signed ‘G Weissbort 62’ (lower right)
Oil on board
13 x 21 in. (33 x 53.4 cm.)
George Weissbort painted in a figurative classical style going against the grain of the modern abstract living and painting in the Wye...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Landscape with windmill
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KUWASSEG Charles Euphrasie (1838-1904)
Landscape with Windmill
Oil on canvas signed low right
New Golden frame
Dim canvas : 75 X 108 cm
Dim frame : 104 X 140 cm
KUWASSEG Charles Euphrasie (1838-1904)
French Painter 19th Century born on September 29, 1838 in Draveil (Essonne).
Died in October 1904 in Paris
Painter, Watercolor
Lively landscapes, seascapes, panoramas
Charles Kuwasseg...
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Habenero, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Thane Gorek's (US based) "Habenero" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an orange Habanero pepper halved, so that it's seeds and core are ex...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Red Bell II, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Thane Gorek's (US based) "Red Bell II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a red bell pepper halved, so that it's seeds and core are exposed...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
A.POURFILET - Original Painting Early 20th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A.POURFILET (19th-20th Century)
Still life with Peaches and Grapes
Oil on card signed low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim card : 33 X 41 cm
Dim frame : 50 X 58 cm
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Anaheim, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Thane Gorek's (US based) "Anaheim" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a green Anaheim pepper halved, so that it's seeds and core are exposed, with an indigo blue back...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'A Summer Repast at the House of Lucullus', large oil painting by Boulanger
By Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger
Located in London, GB
This beautiful painting was created in 1877 by the well-known French painter, Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. Boulanger often produced work which combined the classical and Orie...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mutine
Located in New Orleans, LA
Guillaume Seignac
1870-1924 | French
Mutine
Signed “G. Seignac” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A mischievous maiden dominates this garden scene by French Academic artist Guillaume ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Failed Attempt at Avoiding the Inevitable", Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Justin Wheatley's (US based) "The Failed Attempt at Avoiding the Inevitable" is an acrylic painting that depicts a small white house-like object with red roof pierced by a black pain...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Still Life Flowers and Butterfly - Painting 19th century
By Elisa-Antoinette Georget
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Elisa- Antoinette GEORGET (1842-1914)
Flowers and Butterfly
Oil on canvas signed low left
Golden wooden frame stick (new)
Dim canvas : 43 X 72 cm
Dim Frame : 65 X 94 cm
Elisa- Antoi...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Sky is the Limit
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
Landscape of Mountains
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape of Mountains
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 92 X 112 cm
MOSNY Henry (...
Category
1880s 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
Tennis Whites & Wrestling Singlet (Figurative Oil of Athletes by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative oil painting of a young, female tennis player and young male athlete dressed in a wrestling singlet by Mark Beard (aka Bruc...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Versailles
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 - 7eme Symphonie
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, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Joli Moi de Mai
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
Canvas, Oil
"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
Panel, Oil
Russian Roses
By Irene Klestova
Located in Paris, FR
Charming oil on hardboard panel from mid 1950's, representing a bouquet of roses in a vase.The painting is signed on the lower left by Irene Kestova a russian listed artist who lived in France the main part of her life.
The painting is in very good condition, it comes with a recent gilted wooden frame.
Dimensions:
With frame:
39 cm x 35cm - 15.35 in. x 13.78 in.
Painting without frame :
24 cm x 19 cm - 9.45 in. X 7.48 in.
Bio:
Irène klestova
Irene Klestova was born on March 13, 1907 in Saratov in Russia. She continues her studies in a private school of F. I. Rerberg in Moscow. In 1925, she emigrated to Western Europe. In 1925-1926, she attended the courses of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
In Venice, Irene Klestova meets the painter Lev Tchistovsky...
Category
1950s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Luxe Calme & Volupté
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 - Amour Celeste
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
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - La Cathédrale Engloutie
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
Canvas, Oil
Bunch of Roses with Chinese Vase
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MONNOT Maurice Louis (1869-1937)
Bunch of Roses with Chinese Vase
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 61 X 50 cm
Dim Frame : 90 X 80 cm
MONNOT Maurice Louis (1869-1937)
French painter 19th – 20th century
Born the 22th of October 1869 in Paris. Dead in 1937
Painter of interior and still lives. He was the pupil of Joseph Bail...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Swing - Romantic Scene in the Garden
By Antonio Cerveto
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CERVETO RIBA Antonio (1876-1938)
"The swing"
Oil on canvas signed low right
Gault frame (Paris)
Dim canvas : 60 X 80 cm
Dim frame : 81 X 102 cm
CERVETO RIB...
Category
1920s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Magnolia Grandiflora, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Magnolia Grandiflora" is an oil painting that depicts a nude figure in the foreground with a bright red backgroun...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - L'Espoir en Rose
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
Canvas, Oil
Prism, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Prism" is an oil painting that depicts a woman in the foreground looking into the distance with an atmospheric su...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Instantané
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
Oil, Panel
Portrait of a boy 1865
By Carl Gutsch
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Carl GUTSCH (19th Century)
Portrait of a young Boy
Oil on canvas signed low right and dated 1865
Old Original frame gilded with Leaves
Dim canvas : 127 X 84 cm
Dim Frame : 157 X 114 ...
Category
1860s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Academic paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Academic 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. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, pink, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Karen Darbinyan, Mark Beard, Kyna de Schouël, and Elizabeth Zanzinger. 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 Academic paintings, so small editions measuring 4.14 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $140 and tops out at $700,000, while the average work sells for $4,850.