Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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
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...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Italian gothic 19th century Italian religious figurative drawing pencil on paper
Located in Florence, IT
This small drawing (pencil on paper, 25 x 19.5 cm) depicts a friar (who from the style of his tonsure and tunic would appear to be a Franciscan) on the left, seated in the act of rea...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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 ...
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Early 1900s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) Two Children in a tondo, Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
Two Children in a tondo
Portrait in an oval, study for a portrait
Black pencil on paper
23 x 19 cm
Stamp of the workshop o...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$835 Sale Price
20% Off
Conrad Martens, Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Patagonia, Argentina wc
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
PROVENANCE: Christie’s South Kensington, England, June 10, 1986; Maynards Auction, Vancouver, Canada, December 6, 1994.
This 19th cent wc depicts Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Coastal Patagonia, Argentina.
The son of an English mother and the Austrian Consul General in London, Conrad Martens pursued a career in painting following his father’s death in 1816. From the age of sixteen he studied under landscape watercolourist Copley Fielding, absorbing the traditions of the English watercolour school and Joshua Reynolds’ theories on painting. In 1833 Martens joined the HMS Beagle on a scientific survey expedition at Montevideo, South America, as ship’s artist, replacing the ailing Augustus Earle. He befriended the ship’s naturalist, Charles Darwin, whose empirical observation of landscape forms and climatic conditions would influence Martens’ practice.
Martens left the Beagle in Valparaiso in 1834 and travelled to Australia via New Zealand and Tahiti, settling in Sydney in 1835 and setting up a studio in Pitt Street. Patronised by the colonial elite, he fulfilled many commissions for watercolours of the local landscape and Sydney Harbour, including Elizabeth Bay c1838, which features the grand neoclassical edifice of Elizabeth Bay House, built for the former colonial secretary...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Old Master Drawing, View of Naples, 18th Century, Italian School
Located in Greven, DE
Italian Artist; Detailled and impressive old master drawing with the view Naples. Very fine Drawing with white heighting.
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence, Irish Volunteers
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
1769-1830
Portrait of a Young Officer
Pastel with touches of black chalk on paper
Signed and inscribed on an old label verso: "Be pleased to keep away / from the Damp & from dust / T Lawrence AE 13. / 1783."
Wash mount and gilt frame
Provenance
W.E. Spooner;
Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 17 April 2000 lot 196
Sothebys, Old Master & Early British Paintings, 14 April 2011 • London Lot 246
Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14!
This is a portrait of an officer from the Irish Volunteers. The Irish Volunteers was a part-time military force raised by local initiative in Ireland in 1778. Their original purpose was to guard against invasion and to preserve law and order at a time when British soldiers were withdrawn from Ireland to fight abroad during the American Revolutionary War.
As a young boy Thomas Lawrence lived with his parents who ran a coaching inn near Bath. Clearly talented from this young age, he drew the passing travellers who stopped at the inn and this soldier may have been one such sitter. Lawrence was only 13 years old when he drew this work. To capitalise upon their son's talents, the family later moved to Bath and sent Lawrence to London in 1787 where he entered the Royal Academy schools at the earliest possible age. Works from such an early period of Lawrence's creativity are rarely to be found today.
This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards.
When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits.
Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
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1780s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
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...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,234 Sale Price
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Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
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1930s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
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 ...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
France circa 1820, Portrait of a gentleman, black chalk and pastel drawing
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1820
Portrait of a gentleman
Black chalk and pastel on paper
12 x 10 cm
In its original mount, modern oak frame : 25 x 22.5 cm
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1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Chalk
$646 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
$902 Sale Price
20% Off
'Stonehenge at Sunset', Royal Academy, RSBA, Benezit, Wiltshire, Druid, Celtic
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'R. Gallon' for Robert Gallon (English, 1845-1925) and painted circa 1880.
This well-listed landscape and seascape painter maintained a studio in St John's Wood, ...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Trompe l'oeil New York street with aerial perspective, pastel-colored buildings
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Gemeentehuis Breukelen, The Dutch House, Brooklyn, Breukelen
Located in Cotignac, FR
Dutch Watercolour classical building portrait by Tineke Goedhart. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and resigned, dated and located on t...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
1930s French Barbizon School Watercolour, Village and Bridge by a River, Dinard
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a French village and stone bridge by a river by Henri Clamen. The painting is dated, 1939, and titled, 'Dinard' to the back of the...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
View of Ariccia, a preparatory drawing by Achille Bénouville (1815 - 1891)
Located in PARIS, FR
This very modern drawing presents a view of Ariccia, a small town 25 kilometres south-east of Rome. The Palazzo Chigi (in which the film-maker Luchino Visconti would film a large part of The Leopard a century later) and the adjoining church are seen from the bottom of the ravine that surrounds the town. This drawing is a moving testimony to the attraction of the city for artists of the Romantic period, who established in Ariccia a vivid artists' colony.
1. Achille Bénouville...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Claud Lovat Fraser - 1918 British Fan Shaped watercolour - Fete Galante
Located in London, GB
CLAUD LOVAT FRASER
(1890-1921)
Fete Galante – Fan Design
Signed and dated l.r.: C. LOVAT FRASER FECIT MAR 1918
Watercolour and pencil, shaped
Framed
20 by 37.5 cm., 8 by 14 ¾ in.
...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
James Ward The Fisherman's Family
By James Ward
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Precious Watercolor attributed to James WARD (1769-1859) - England, 1830-1840. The Fisherman' S Family. Measurements : View : 20"x14.6" (51x37 cm), With frame : 26.6"x21.5" (67.5x54....
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a fisherman, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Noel (1810-1881)
Landscape with a fisherman,
Signed lower right
Pencil on paper
27.8 x 44 cm
Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm
We find in this drawing everything that makes...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Inscription Rock, New Mexico – Southwest Light in Gouache by Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Oscar Borg (1879-1947) Swedish/American
Inscription Rock, New Mexico
gouache on card
signed CARL OSCAR BORG.
unframed: 12 x 17.5 cm (4 3/4 x 6 7/8 in)
framed: 22 x 27 cm (8 5/...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Seated Female Nude (two studies)
By Pierre Saint-Ange Poterlet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude
Charcoal on tan paper
Signed: Poterlet bottom center (see photo)
Provenance:
Alfred Barrion, Lugt 76 lower right recto (see photo)
Eric G. Carlson, 1985
Very good...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
"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...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
Pierre-Adolphe Huas (1838-1900) Young Neapolitan, 1867, pastel signed and dated
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre-Adolphe Huas (1838-1900)
Young Neapolitan, 1867,
signed and dated upper left
Pastel on paper transferred to canvas
50.5 x 39.5 cm
In good condition, but a small restoration ...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
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...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1930s French Impressionist Watercolour of Le Canal at Peronne Cléry
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a canal scene by Henri Clamen. There is a location annotation to the back of the paper. The painting is not signed but was acquired ...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
$284 Sale Price
45% Off
Antique Horse Study; Legs and Rumps, 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Study
"Legs and Rumps, 1838"
Wouterus Verschuur l (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Pencil on paper
Signed and Dated "W Verschuur 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...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
The Carnations
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid 20th century watercolour on paper of carnations in a bowl by French artist J Savigny. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a period patinated and gilt wood and ...
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$398 Sale Price
28% Off
Sarah Bernhardt in Profile – Drawing by August Hagborg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt – Drawing by August Hagborg
This finely rendered pencil drawing, executed with grey and black wash and measuring 35 × 33.1 cm, is signed “Hagborg.” It is...
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1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
French Romantic School, View of a roman atrium, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school circa 1850
An antique Roman Atrium
signed lower right (illegible)
Ink, Ink wash and white gouache heightenings
20 x 13 cm
Framed : 35.5 x 27 cm
The signatu...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
A Rural Landscape With Cows and Horses, Watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist who was a Swedish artist born in 1891 and passed away in 1984.
Linnqvist, known for his association with the Naïvist movement, often described as...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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 ...
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1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Statue of Liberty kissing a duck in a movie theater, purple lighting
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Eugène Cicéri (1813-1890) The Mill, original signed drawing
By Eugène Ciceri
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Cicéri (1813 - 1890)
The Mill
Signed lower right
Monogrammed AE, probably a collector's mark as it appears on numerous drawings by Cicéri
30.5 x 22.5 cm
In good condition : ...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Crows, Brush, Watercolour on Paper, Set of 14 works by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Dipen Bose
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Dipen Bose
Brush & Watercolour on paper
7.5 x 5 inches, 1961-64 (each)
Paintings on both sides of the paper.
Extraordinary and Unique.
(Set of 7 Reversible Works) - Recto - Verso
(F...
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1960s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
English School, circa 1800 Georgian watercolor, The Sailor's return
Located in Harkstead, GB
A delightful rustic scene dating to circa 1800 with the sailor returning to his thankful wife and the domestic idyll of his country cottage. The harbour with sailing ships ferrying c...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$260 Sale Price
30% Off
Recruits on a March
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recruits on a March
Ink and watercolor on paper, mounted on support
Unsigned
Condition: watercolor sheet laid down on paper, moderately faded
Original Ackermann frame and matting
Ima...
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Early 1800s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Lake Scene" - Framed Early 20th Century Watercolor Seascape Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
(I apologize for the reflections on the glass.) A lovely, gentle watercolor of a quiet lake with the fall trees reflected in the water. In the misty distance rises a cathedral above ...
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1920s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Louis Gallait (1810-1887) Portrait of a Gentleman, watercolor and gouache
By Louis Gallait
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Gallait (1810-1887)
Portrait of a Gentleman,
Watercolor and gouache on paper, square white lines,
24 x 16 cm
Stamp of the Louis Gallait Estate on the mount on the lower righ...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century
Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
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1980s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$5,677
Christmas night with Donkeys, a Robin and Lambs in a stable by a crib
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
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1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Gouache
Landscape with Men and Horses - Original China Ink and Watercolor - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with men and horses is a beautiful ink and pencil drawing. Due to the concerned subject matter and the typology of the image, it is assumed th...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of characters, drawing and watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of characters
Black pencil and watercolor on paper
18.5 x 25.5 cm
Stamp of the Raffet Estate Sale (1911) on the lower right
In good condition, foxings on the original mount
Framed 34 x 40 cm
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.[
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
French Romantic school, View of a citadel, pen and watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, 19th century
View of a citadel
Pen and ink, watercolor and heightenings of white gouache on brown paper
18 x 29.5 cm
In good condition, some stains and traces...
Category
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
French school 19th century, An italian bandit, 1864, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th century,
An italian bandit, 1864,
watercolor on paper
On the reverse of the sheet (now under the back of the frame) an annotation, "Rome 1864"
25,5 x 21.5 cm (v...
Category
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$765 Sale Price
25% Off
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) Family Portrait, 1826 Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
A Family Portrait, 1826
pencil on paper
Signed lower right and dated 1826
19.5 x 27 cm
in a beautiful carved oak frame: 4...
Category
1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Jack Russell Puppies seated with a Kitten
By Debbie Allwright
Located in Woodbury, CT
Debbie Allwright is an English painter and book illustrated. Her skill and quality of drawing is first rate.
Category
1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
An English scene of a Donkey and Rabbits in a field, with wild flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
Category
1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
An English Terrier Puppy with a Kitten playing with a Christmas decorations
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting a terrier puppy with a kitten playing with a Christmas decoration under the Christmas tree
This piece was drawn as an illustration f...
Category
1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modern British, 20th Century St. Ives artist, Sven Berlin drawing of a Cockerell
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Cock
Black felt pen on paper
Inscribed with title (lower left)
11.3/4 x 14 in. (29.7 x 35.5 cm.)
Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th Sep...
Category
20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
The Pipe's of Pan - British Watercolour by Hubert von Herkomer
Located in London, GB
SIR HUBERT VON HERKOMER, RA, RWS
(1849-1914)
The Pipe’s of Pan
Signed with initials and dated 26/2/74
Watercolour and bodycolour on paper
17 by 22 cm., 6 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
(frame size ...
Category
1870s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Follower of Francis Wheatley, 19th century portrait of young maiden with flowers
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really charming, early 19th century portrait of a young maiden carrying a basket of flowers. The face is beautifully painted with a slight blush to her cheeks and striking touches ...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
"Untitled (Red Flower)" Watercolor on Paper, Abstract Flower, Signed & Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
Flowers were one of Culver's favorite subject. This stunning portrait of a red flower draws the viewer into its very center as powerfully as any flower portrait by Georgia O'Keeffe. It is the idyllic flower that can be described as in the romantic style wherein the subject depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. It is signed and dated by the artist on the lower left. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass.
In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.”
Charles Culver...
Category
1950s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French School 19th century, Set of nine humoristic drawings, pencil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
France, 19th century
Set of nine humoristic drawings, various subjects in the same mount
Black pencil, for some of them with highlights of white gouache
various dimensions : 6 x 5.5 ...
Category
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
$403 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Romantic school, A Pavilion in a garden, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Romantic School, circa 1860
A pavilion in a garden , an animated view
Pen and black ink, black ink wash on paper
19.5 x 26.5 cm
In good condition, slightly undulating.
Framed : 39 x ...
Category
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$536 Sale Price
20% Off
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