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
Huge 19th century Hunting scene - Setter dogs with their prey - Hunt
By Henry Schouten
Located in Antwerp, BE
Huge 19th century Hunting scene oil painting "Two setters with their trophy in a landscape" by the well-known Belgian animal painter Henry Schouten
Henry Schouten was born in Indone...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
German Danish School, Decorative Marine Painting, Coastal Scene, Fishermen, Boat
Located in Greven, DE
German or Danish School, 19th Century
Coastal Scene with boat and fishermen
very decorative cabinet piece in a golden frame
The painting is very fine and goes with a very nice and so...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas
A. Kreutzer, 19th Century, Fishing Boats in the Moonlight. Coastal Landscape.
Located in Berlin, DE
A. Kreutzer, 19th century, fishing boats in the moonlight, painting, oil on canvas. Nocturnal coastal landscape.
Age-related condition.
Frame damaged in places.
Dimensions without ...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Une Affection Tacite - 19th Century Romantic Oil Painting Girl & Loving Admirer
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Une Affection Tacite’ by Adèle Kindt (1804-1893).
The painting – which depicts a young woman and her ardent admirer – is signed by the artist and dated 1862.
Born into a family o...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Carsten Henrichsen, Summer Landscape With Figure Harvesting Peat
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century oil painting by Danish artist Carsten Henrichsen (1824-1897) depicts a figure extracting peat before a picturesque summer landscape.
Born the son of an innkeep...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a Soldier, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a Soldier,
oil on canvas transfered on panel
23.5 x 15.5 cm
framed : 32.x 23.8 cm
This small painting, undoubtedly a painted sketch, is int...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
19th century painting Shepherd in a landscape with his sheep - Rosa Bonheur
Located in Antwerp, BE
Romantic 19th century painting of a shepherd with his flock by August Friedrich Schenck
August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck (23 April 1828 – 1 January 1901) was a painter born in Glüc...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
19th century French Portrait of a boy - 1897 Friendship gift
Located in Antwerp, BE
Claude Firmin (1864-1944), Portrait of a Young Boy on 19 October 1897
Claude Firmin, a painter from Avignon and member of the Groupe des Treize, created this superb yet intimate por...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Landscape with Cattle Grazing in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Landscape with Cattle Grazing in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright
Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beauti...
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Preparatory Oil on Canvas Study For 'The Vendange in Languedoc' by Max Leenhardt
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large early 20th century oil on canvas of the vendange or wine harvest. Though not signed this is probably the preparatory study for the later painting by Michel Maximilien Leenhardt...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Attributed to Charles de Steuben (1788-1856) Portrait of a man, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Charles de Steuben (1788-1856)
Portrait of a man,
oil on canvas
22 x 18 cm
In a modern frame : 35,5 x 31,5 cm
The attribution of this small portrait to Charles de St...
Category
1840s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Swedish Oil Canvas Painting Romantic Interior Family Scene Monkey 1883
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & large antique oil on canvas painting by Bengt Nordenberg (1822-1902), Sweden, dated 1883.
Nordenberg is recognized as one of Sweden's most celebrated 19th century artists, h...
Category
1880s 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
Romantic Landscape of Scandinavian Enchanted Forest, Large Lake Print Cyanotype
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Lovely scene of a hidden pond in a Scandinavian forest.
Details:
+ Title: Scandinavian Enchanted Forest
+ Year: 2024
+ ...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
FEREY Snow landscape sunset hut hunters French wood panel 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard FEREY (middle of the 19th century)
Oil on wood panel
19 x 35 cm (34 x 40 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right "E. Ferey"
Nice 19th century frame in gilded wood
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Harlequin Clown entitled "Little Queen" by Philippe Alfieri
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Harlequin Clown entitled "Little Queen" by Italian/American artist Philippe Alfieri (1921-2009);
limited edition lithograph titled & signed by the artist
Category
20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Adèle Kindt, Portrait Of A Lady With Roses & Forget-Me-Nots
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine mid-19th-century oil painting by Belgian artist Adèle Kindt (1804-1884) depicts a lady wearing a beautiful white off-the-shoulder dress with an attached posy of pink roses ...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sheep and ducks resting
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel
Signed lower right and also signed on the back. “Je soussigné déclare que/ce tableau ici contre est/original/Eugène Verboeckhoven/Schaerbeek les Bruxelles 1865”
Immer...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sheep and a chicken in their stable
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated left center: “1859” also signed on the back.
Discover the serene beauty and meticulous craftsmanship of Eugène Verboeckhoven in this luminous paintin...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Poster design - Bugatti - Romantic Figurative Oil by Mariano Alonso Perez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on canvas by Spanish romantic painter Mariano Alfonso Perez. The piece is a post design for the launch of the Bugatti Aerolithe. A woman dressed in red is sitti...
Category
1930s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Siren. Original Contemporary.Watercolor Painting.Fairy.Mythical.LP Cover-esque
By Liz Wall
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Liz Wall.
Welsh ( XX - XXI ).
Siren.
Watercolor and Ink.
Signed and Dated 2011 Lower Right.
Image size 11.4 inches x 18.9 inches ( 29cm x 48cm ).
Frame size 25.6 inches x 26.8 inch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
French romantic school Drawing black chalk and goiache HORTIN steam boat 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles HORTIN (Attributed to)
(XIX)
Black chalk and white gouache
Signed lower right
12 x 16 cm
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Religious Painting Good Samaritan French school 19th romantic Sketch
Located in PARIS, FR
French school in the middle of the 19th century
Oil on wood
25 x 23.5 cm
Trace of a signature at bottom left
This small study for the Good Samaritan recalls the art of French romant...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
French romantic school PETIT Paris view architecture Saint Denis 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Antoine-Baptiste PETIT
Paris, 1800 – Versailles, 1864
Watercolor
18 x 27 cm
Antoine-Baptiste Petit was a decorative painter and teacher of perspective.
He produced views of Paris in...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Woman posing oil on burlap painting portrait
By Jose Puyet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - La rondeña - Oil on burlap
Oil measurements 81x65 cm.
Some areas with cracked oil paint.
Frameless.
Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the gran...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Still life of Tazza with red grapes- 17th Century Style Contemporary Still-life
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair
"Still life with Tazza with red grapes"
55 x 42 cm ( painting)
Framed the size is 93 x 79 cm (This by the artist handmade frame is included in the price)
Painted i...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Disegno figurativo del romanticismo fiorentino matita su carta del XIX secolo
By Giuseppe Bezzuoli
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, sebbene non firmato, proviene dalla collezione degli eredi di Giuseppe Bezzuoli, come riconoscibile dallo stemma ovale Macciò Parri che si trova in basso a sinistra, ed è...
Category
1820s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Chalk
Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Figurative Oil Painting on Wood
Painted in the manner of late Romanticism, this charming miniature pastoral landscape by Edmund Fri...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
French Romantic school, Portrait of a young soldier, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, circa 1830
Portrait of a young soldier,
pencil on paper
Framed under glass : 38 x 30 cm
It's a vintage frame, probablly original but I had the back redone
T...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Pencil
Allegorical mythological figurative bronze from the 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Marble-based bronze statuette depicting Cupid, holding an arrow in his hand, walking caressing a lion's mane, lowered in the act of affectionately licking his little foot. The subjec...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
‘Landscape with Cows and Sheep in a wide river landscape’, Eugène Verboeckhoven
Located in Bruges, BE
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Warneton 1798 – 1881 Schaarbeek
Belgian Painter
‘Landscape with Cows and Sheep in a wide river landscape’
Signature: signed and dated lower mid-right 'E...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
‘Peasant Children walking the Donkeys’ by Edgar Bundy (1862 – 1922), dated 1885
Located in Bruges, BE
Edgar Bundy
Brighton 1862 – 1922 London
British Painter
‘Peasant Children walking the Donkeys’
Signature: signed lower right and dated ‘Edgar Bundy 1885'
Medium: oil on canvas
Dim...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Cats Playing around a Mirror’ by Joseph Bail (1862 – 1921), French Painter
Located in Bruges, BE
Joseph Bail
Limonest 1862 – 1921 Paris
French Painter
‘Cats Playing around a Mirror’
Signature: signed lower right ‘Bail Joseph’
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 45,5...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Meal Time for all’ by Hermann Werner (1816 – 1905), signed and dated 1870
By Hermann Werner
Located in Bruges, BE
Hermann Werner
Samswegen 1816 – 1905 Düsseldorf
German Painter
‘Meal Time for all’
Signature: signed lower right and dated ‘H. Werner. 1870
'
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: ima...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Fishermen’s Cove with two fishing boats on the beach’ by Johan Hendrik Meijer
By Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer
Located in Bruges, BE
Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer
Amsterdam 1809 – 1866 Utrecht
Dutch Painter
‘Fishermen’s Cove with two fishing boats on the beach’
Signature: signed lower right ‘L Meijer’
Medium: oil o...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"La faena del picador", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Manuel Rodríguez de Guzmán
Located in Madrid, ES
MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ DE GUZMÁN
Spanish, 1818 - 1867
LA FAENA DEL PICADOR
signed "M. Rodriguez" (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 x 34-1/4 inches (58.5 x 87 cm.)
framed: 31-5/8 x 43-1/8 inches (81 x 109.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Seville
Manuel Rodríguez de Guzmán (Seville, June 20, 1818-Madrid, 1867) was a Spanish painter of the Romantic period who excelled in the composition of costumbrista themes. He began painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in his hometown with José Domínguez...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'A Walk along the Snowy Landscape’ by Franciscus Lodewijk Van Gulik, dated 1878
Located in Bruges, BE
Franciscus Lodewijk Van Gulik
Maastricht 1841 - 1899 Rotterdam
Dutch Painter
'A Walk along the Snowy Landscape’
Signature: signed lower right and dated 'Frans van Gulik 1878'
Mediu...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting oval KUWASSEG Marine beach boats french romantic Normandy 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles Euphrasie KUWASSEG
Draveil (Essonne), 1833 – Paris, 1904
Oil on wooden panel Signed and dated lower right “C. Kuwasseg fils / July 57”
36 x 28 cm (42 x 36 cm with the frame)...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Horse British painter - 19th century figure painting - Hunting knight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (19th century) - Rider and hunting greyhounds.
28 x 22 cm without frame, 40 x 33 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition r...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th century cat portrait painting - "Le Chat " - Ragamuffin - Maine coon
Located in Antwerp, BE
Adorable 19th century cat painting "Le Chat" painted by Alexandre Clarys
This mesmerising cat gazes intently at the viewer, whilst the artist has captured his fluffy fur and sparkl...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French romantic painting Oil on paper TANCARVILLE castle Normandy 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Victor LEFRANC
Paris, 1812 - ?
Oil on paper
33 x 42 cm (44 x 52 cm with frame)
Inscription on the verso 'Tancarville / 1839" and stamp from the Georges Lhoste collection
Painter of ...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Romantic French Painter - 19th century figure painting - Gallant interior
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (19th century) - The arrival of the letter from the suitor.
35.5 x 29 cm without frame, 52.5 x 46.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a contemporary ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Citadel, Cairo, The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha. American Orientalist
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks.
American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ).
In the Citadel, Cairo, before The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
Watercolor. Monogram Lower Right.
Image size 8.3 inches x 5.3 in...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Frédéric Millet (1786-1859) Portrait of a gentleman, 1849 watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Frédéric Millet (1786-1859)
Portrait of a gentleman, 1849
signed and dated lower right
Watercolor on paper
36 x 27,5 cm
framed : 44 x 35 cm
Frédéric Millet is rightly renowned fo...
Category
1840s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Moonlight over the Lake, 1912, By Swedish Artist Wilhelm Dahlbom
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present this exquisite piece by Swedish artist Wilhelm Dahlbom, entitled "Moonlight, Idö, 1912". This work captures the serene reflection of moonlight on water, the...
Category
1910s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Search" Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Spanish Artist M. Alonso Pérez
Located in Madrid, ES
MARIANO ALONSO PÉREZ
Spanish, 1857 - 1930
THE SEARCH
signed "Alonso Pérez" (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 x 12-1/8 inches (58 x 30.7 cm.)
framed: ...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seagulls in the snow. 1994. Canvas, oil, 70x112 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Seagulls in the snow. 1994. Canvas, oil, 70x112 cm
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orpheus - Late 20th Century British watercolour by Robert O'Rorke
Located in London, GB
ROBERT O’RORKE
(Born 1945)
Orpheus
Signed and dated l.r.: Rbt O’Rorke ’93; signed, dated 1993 and inscribed The Dance No.3 on a label attached to the backboard
Watercolour on grey ...
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Une Affection Tacite - Large 19th Century Oil Painting of Young Lovers
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Une Affection Tacite’ by Adèle Kindt (1804-1893).
The painting – which depicts a young woman and her ardent admirer – is signed by the artist and dated 1862.
Born into a family o...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Charlotte Shore Daughter of 1st Lord Teignmouth. Portrait in India 1792 to 1795.
By Arthur William Devis
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Arthur William Devis.
English ( b.1762 - d.1822 ).
Portrait of Charlotte Shore, Daughter of the 1st Lord Teignmouth 1790 - 1864.
Oil on Canvas.
Oval Image size 26.2 inches x 20.5 in...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George H Hay, Spinning Wool, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century watercolour by Scottish artist George H Hay RSA (1831-1912) depicts four young ladies, wearing outfits synonymous with the 1820s, spinning wool within a simple...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique Scottish Oil on Canvas Painting Tantallon Castle Ruin East Lothian 1850
By Horatio McCulloch
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & important Scottish oil on canvas painting; a landscape of Tantallon Castle in East Lothian, by Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867) R.S.A. The painting circa 1850.
This very hands...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
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