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What is 1800s art called?

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What is 1800s art called?
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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Fine 19th Century German Oil Rural Lakeside Landscape Cattle Watering at Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th Century Rural Lakeside Landscape with Cattle Watering at Sunset By R. Wolters (German, 19th century) Signed lower right. unframed. Canvas: 12.5 × 25 inches Medium: oil on canvas...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

The Road to Studland
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Initialed and dated in pencil in the lower right recto...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Graphite

3 Kent Terrace
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered along the left sheet edge to a sketchbook page, 11 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (285 x 232 mm), the full sheet. Titled and dated in pencil i...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Antique Oil Highland Cattle Scottish Moor beneath Grey Moody Dramatic Skies
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Highland Cattle Grazing on a Scottish Moor beneath Dramatic Skies by Edward Hargitt (British, 1835–1895) Signed. Framed: 19.5 × 25 inches Canvas: 12 × 18 inches Medium: Oil on canvas...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Fine British Countryside Landscape Antique Oil Painting Woodland Meadow View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
British Countryside Landscape Antique Oil Painting Woodland Meadow View H. Easy (19th–20th Century British) Framed: 17 x 23.5 inches Board: 15 x 22 inches Medium: Oil on board, frame...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"On The Hudson" American Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Antique Frame
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful, serene tonalist landscape depicting a tranquil marshy scene at dawn, painted at the turn of the 19th Century on the Hudson. This piece features beautiful reflections of ...
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Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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