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What is 1800s art called?
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What 1800s art is called depends on its age and style, as the century saw multiple movements. Most art historians refer to art that broke from traditional norms, produced in the 1860s and later, as modern art, and everything that preceded it as pre-modern art. Some of the art styles that were popular during the 19th century include Impressionism, Realism, Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Expressionism and Fauvism. Shop a wide range of 19th-century art on 1stDibs.
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Antique Oil Painting of a Young Woman in Landscape, Picnic in the Fields
By John Lewis Shonborn
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique portrait oil painting of a young woman carrying baskets in the fields by John Lewis Shonborn (1852-1931). Signed in the bottom right. This is a totally charming and atmosphe...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Landscape Pastoral Oil Painting in Gold Frame, French Barbizon School
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique Landscape Oil Painting of a shepherdess and her sheep against a French Barbizon background. This 19th Century painting is a traditional French pastoral oil on wood, housed w...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Landscape Oil Painting with Women, French Impressionist Figurative Art
Located in AIGNAN, FR
A truly delightful antique turn of the century oil painting on stretched canvas in a brown and gilt frame. Two women sit on the shaded side of a muddy track, perhaps they are waitin...
Category
Early 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Oil Preparing the Ships Marine Scene Figures & Sailing Vessels
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Preparing the Ships Coastal Marine Scene with Figures and Sailing Vessels
English, mid 19th century
oil on board, framed in a gilt moulded frame
Framed: 10.75 x 14.5 inches
Board: ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Activity on the River, at Sunset Twilight near Barbizon landscape painting
By Alessandro Altamura
Located in Norwich, GB
An atmospheric twilight scene by Alessandro Altamura, depicting a tranquil river teeming with activity, likely set near the forest landscape of Fontainebleau in France. The compositi...
Category
1890s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Huge Antique Oil Painting Highland Cows In Scottish River Flowing Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Crossing Borderland
by Thomas Henry Gibb ( British, 19th century )
inscribed verso
dated 1894
signed
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 31 x 49.5 inches
canvas: 28 x 46.5 inches
Provenan...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil


