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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1980s
Boats by Moonlight - Realist Night Seascape Oil Painting by Alfred Stevens
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed seascape oil on panel by Belgian realist painter Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens. The work depicts a sail boat in choppy waters at nightime. The moon glows brightly behind a dark...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Boats repairs, Monterey Dock
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Boats Repairs, Monterey Dock" 1933 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Veda Fero Carnahan Dayton, 1891-1983. It is signed at the lower left...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Dutch painter - Pair of 19th century figure paintings - Interior Tavern
Located in Varmo, IT
Dutch painter (19th century) – Interior of a tavern with smokers.
21 x 18 cm without frames, 31 x 28 cm with frames.
Pair of antique oil paintings on canvas, in black lacquered woo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bathers, Large Cubist Painting by Jessica Rice
By Jessica Rice
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Jessica Rice from 1985. A cubist scene of figures on a tropical beach. Framed in silver wood frame.
Artist: Jessica Rice
Title: Bathers
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil ...
Category
1980s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gospel Scene on Sunrise Jesus Passing Peter 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gospel of Apostle Luke, Chapter 22:
61. and the Lord turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Befor...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Children Playing on a Boat, likely New York/Brooklyn/Flatbush Area, c. 1895
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charles Lewis Fussell
(American, 1840–1909)
Children Playing on a Boat
Oil on canvas, 11 x 16 3/4 inches
Framed: 19 x 25 inches (approx.)
Signed at lower left: “C.L. Fussell”
Charle...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venice (Canal View Along the Fondamenta S. Giuseppe)
Located in New York, NY
Francis Hopkinson Smith paints a colorful and detailed scene of Venice in his artwork entitled, Venice (Canal View Along the Fondamenta S. Giuseppe).”
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Young Belle Epoque Beauty - 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait French Girl Paris
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Young Beauty holding a Red Rose’ by Étienne Adolphe Piot (1831-1910). The painting is signed by the artist and hangs in a fine quality gold metal leaf frame.
Academy Fine Paintings...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fair scene with actors
Located in PARIS, FR
French school circa 1815
Fair scene with actors
Painting, oil on wood
Unsigned
Painting: 20 x 27 cm
Period frame: 30 x 36.5 cm
Very good condition
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Holy Family with St Elizabeth and Young John Baptist 19th century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
This tender depiction of the Holy Family represents a subject which was central to Raphael's oeuvre. The painting is based on the famous panel by Giulio Romano, called Madonna della ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
A Day in the County - Large 19th Century Royal Academy Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘A Day in the Country’ by William Frederick Witherington R.A. (1785-1865).
The painting – which depicts a group of Victorian figures on a summer’s day before an extensive landscape ...
Category
1850s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Fashion. Young Victorian Lady With Meadow Flowers In Her Straw Hat
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Alice Anne Renshaw.
English ( b.1849 - d.1900 ).
Young Lady With Meadow Flowers In Her Straw Hat
Watercolor & Gouache on Artist's Board ( An embossed stamp in the top left hand corn...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Vintage Post-Impressionist Painting of Tree-Lined River in the Irish Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Post-Impressionist Painting of a Tree-Lined River in the Irish Countryside by 20th Century Irish Artist, Ray Cochrane.
Art measure...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Early 19th Century British Oil Painting Moonlit River Landscape with Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Moonlit River
English School, early 19th century
circle of Sebastian Pether (1793-1844)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 8 x 11 inches
provenance: private collection, Berkshire, E...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
English River landscape, with Church and River at Sunset, Abingdon on the Thames
Located in Woodbury, CT
English River landscape, with Church and River at Sunset, Abingdon on the Thames. England
Wonderful scene of Abingdon on the Thames by one of Englands best known landscape painters....
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1800's Old Master Oil Painting Portrait of the Madonna & Christ Child
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna and Christ Child
Eastern European artist, circa 1800's
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 31 x 27 inches
board: 26 x 22 inches
provenance: private collection, London
condition...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century French painting - Fisherman retuning home in a sunset landscape
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century French oil painting depicting a Fisherman returning home in a peaceful countryside landscape
This lovely painting depicts a charming French countryside landscape at dus...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saul asking the Pythoness of Andor to summon the ghost of Samuel
Located in PARIS, FR
Circle of Fulchran Jean HARRIET (Paris, 1776 – Rome, 1805)
Saul asks the pythonisse of Andor to call the ghost of Samuel
Oil on canvas
31 x 42 cm
Around 1800
The episode is taken ...
Category
Early 19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
News from the Front - 19th Century Royal Acade Oil Painting Victorian London War
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘News from the Front’ by Frederick Goodall R.A. H.R.I. (1822-1904).
The painting – which depicts a diverse cross-section of Victorian figures gathered outside a post office as they...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Study of a Breton shepherdess
Located in PARIS, FR
Théodore VALERIO
(Herserange, 1819 – Vichy, 1879)
Study of a Breton shepherdess
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
Bears the sale stamp at the bottom
31 x 22 cm
Provenance: Sale o...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vue de la Côte Normande by Claude-Émile Schuffenecker - Landscape painting
By Claude Emile Schuffenecker
Located in London, GB
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Vue de la Côte Normande by Claude-Émile Schuffenecker (1851-1934)
Oil on canvas
58 x 69 cm (22 ⁷/₈ x 27 ¹/₈ inches)
Sig...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 19th Century Country Cottage Interior Young Family Enjoying Meal Together
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Family Meal
German School, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 10.75 x 11.75 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Grand Tour Venice - 19th Century Venetian Oil Painting St Mark's Sq & Canal
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Grand Tour, Venice’ by Josef Carl Püttner (1821-1881).
The painting – which depicts a group of 19th century Grand Tourists on the Riva degli ...
Category
1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mount Snowdon - 19th Century Royal Academy Welsh Mountain Oil Painting Landscape
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Llyn Gwynant and Mount Snowdon’ by Edward Charles Williams (1807-1881).
The painting – which depicts figures seated on the lake shore before the iconic Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) i...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge Victorian Original Oil Painting Portrait of Little Red Riding Hood
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Little Red Riding Hood
by John Talbot Adams (1827-1909)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 50 x 40 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound condition hav...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Enchantress - 19th Century Belle Epoque Oil Painting Portrait French Beauty
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Enchantress’ by Nathaniel Sichel (1843-1907). This large fine 19th century oil on canvas, depicting a dark-haired beauty wearing a crown of holly, is signed by the artist and ha...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guinevere - 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Oil Painting of King Arthur Queen Legend
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Guinevere’ by Norman Prescott-Davies R.B.A, R.C.A. (1861-1915). The painting – which depicts an English mediaeval portrait of Queen Guinevere at Amesbury Priory contemplating her lo...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape Oil Painting View Of Pantheon Rome Italian School Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
an impressive view of Pantheon in Rome an Italian School landscape oil painting of late 19th century; the artist made a perfect storytelling and give the opportunity to the observer ...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
SOUP BOX - ONION (UNIQUE)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique acrylic painting and silkscreen on canvas. Hand signed and dated by Andy Warhol on verso. Martin Lawrence provenance label on verso. Canvas size 20 x 20 inches.
The artwor...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Screen, Canvas, Acrylic
The City at Twilight: Twin Towers II, signed painting, Gruenebaum Gallery label
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff
The City at Twilight: Twin Towers II, 1985
Acrylic and pencil on paper (held in original frame with Gruenebaum Gallery, NY label)
Signed and dated on the front; also b...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite
19th Century British Oil Painting Fisherfolk on Shore with Boats Signed original
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fisherfolk on the Shore
British School, late 19th century
indistinctly signed and inscribed
oil on board, framed
framed: 15.5 x 17 inches
board: 12 x 13.5 inches
provenance: private ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Othello & Desdemona - 19th Century Oil Painting of Shakespeare Play Venice Italy
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Othello recounting his adventures to Desdemona and Brabantio’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904).
The painting – which depicts Shakespeare’s Venetian general, his lover D...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century impressionist painting - Summer in the Countryside , a shepherdess
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century impressionist painting, capturing a beautiful day in the countryside.
A young girl can be seen standing in front of her flock in the lush and beautiful countryside. A s...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carnevale di Venezia - Large 19th Century Oil Painting of Venice Carnival Italy
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Carnevale di Venezia’ by James Holland RWS (1799-1870).
The painting – which depicts an extensive view of the Grand Canal with hundreds of masked revellers before the Ducal Palace ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vale of the Conwy, Snowdonia - Large 19th Century Landscape Oil Painting Wales
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Vale of the Conwy’ by Samuel Lines (1778-1863). The painting – which depicts a single female figure in Welsh dress walking with a goat in an extensive mountain landscape – is signed...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Barbizon school Barn landscape - Oil painting Signed
Located in Sempach, LU
Landscape from 1892
Typical farm with thatched roof from Brittany from Henri Catrou (1855-1938). He was a "plein air" painter from Barbizon school, who the most famous painters wer...
Category
1890s Barbizon School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mercury Leading Psyche to Heaven
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Henri-Léopold Lévy (23 September 1840, Nancy - 29 December 1904, Paris) was a French painter of Jewish ancestry, known primarily for mythological and Biblical subjects.
He was the s...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aaron Fink (American 1955-Active) "Red Smoker" Oil Paint on Canvas
By Aaron Fink
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aaron Fink (American 1955-Active) "Red Smoker" Oil Paint on Canvas
1986
Category
1980s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1800's Italian Grand Tour Oil Painting Figures before Classical Buildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Arcadian View
Italian School, circa 1800
Grand Tour subject
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 12 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound cond...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Biccherna Style Siena Tuscany
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Icilio Federico Joni.
Italian ( b.1866 - d.1946 ).
Painted Gesso, Gilt and Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Sienese Biccherna Style
Book Cover size 11 inches x 8.1 inches ( ...
Category
Late 19th Century Gothic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
Original Boston Modernist Lithograph Aaron Fink Apples Pop Art Print Americana
By Aaron Fink
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Apples
Signed and dated "Aaron Fink" lower right
on Arches deckle edged paper. it is pencil signed and dedicated in pencil. it is not numbered and mig...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
A Day in Venice, 1892
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating painting by Axel Axelson (1854-1892), titled "A Day in Venice, 1892" illustrates a moment from Venice in the year of 1892. Within the compact dimensions of 24 x 14 c...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Biccherna Style Siena Tuscany
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Icilio Federico Joni.
Italian ( b.1866 - d.1946 ).
Painted Gesso, Gilt and Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Sienese Biccherna Style
Book Cover size 11 inches x 8.1 inches ( ...
Category
Late 19th Century Gothic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
Early 19th Century Oil - Greeting the Prince
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming classical scene depicting figures bowing before a prince. The artist uses sepia tones to capture the figures standing before a vast landscape. Unsigned. Part of a pair of ...
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Donna con calze Rosse" Olio su cartone cm. 50 x 70 1984
Located in Torino, IT
Figura femminile con calze rosse
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive resu...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Meditation" Dutch Woman Sewing Interior Genre Home scene Fruit Flowers on Table
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Bernard de Hoog was born in Amsterdam in 1866. He studied under J.F. Hulk and J.C. van Essen at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam. Mainly a genre and portrait painter, he occupies ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Easter Bonnet - Romantic Portrait Oil Painting by Gustave Jean Jacquet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel portrait circa 1890 by French Romantic painter Gustave Jean Jacquet. The work depicts a young redheaded woman wearing a red velvet jacket lined with white fur. On her head she is wearing an Easter bonnet trimmed with leaves.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 14"x11.5"
Unframed: 10"x7.5"
Provenance:
Baron Fine Art...
Category
1890s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Love Letter
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1884' lower right
Category
1880s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barbizon Landscape Painting on French Porcelain Charger 19th Century by Millet
Located in Rochester, NY
Barbizon landscape painting on porcelain. French. 19th century. Signed E. Millet. Porcelain measures 14.5" in diameter.
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Oil - Fishing By Moonlight
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 19th century oil depicting fishermen pulling in nets by moonlight. The boats are portrayed in choppy waters before a Dutch coastal town. The artist uses a dark palette to ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Girl At Her Dressing Table" Modern Acrylic on Canvas by Bob Novak
Located in Pasadena, CA
Through singular facial analysis, the artist dissolves the traditional concept of perspective, presenting the central figure with a multiplication of contours. The main subject, like...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Baron's Charger - 19th Century Oil Painting English Soldier & Battle Horses
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Baron’s Charger’ by John Frederick Herring Jr. (1815-1907).
The painting – which depicts a 17th century Caroline nobleman with his battle horses and attendant hounds – is sign...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 19th Century English Oil Painting Portrait of Country Squire in Yellow Waist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Country Squire
English School, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 26 x 21.5 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: basic good condition tho...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Little Mule and white rabbit: 1890s novecento animal equestrian horse painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A gorgeous novecento animalier painting, depicting a curious colt and.a white rabbit, by Gaetano Jerace (1860-1940)
Gaetano Jerace was born in Polistena in Calabrian into a dynasty of artists: his brothers Francesco (1894-1937) and Vincenzo (1862-1947) also became painters.
Gaetano moved to Naples as a young man, where a attended the Academy of Fine Arts, studying with Francesco Lojacono...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Landscape, Original Oil on Panel, Impressionist Émile Louis Thivier (1858-1922)
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This small work by Émile Louis Thivier (1858-1922) offers a verdant vignette of nature, characterized by a lively touch and a rich palette, bringing to...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Spanish School 19th Century Oil - A Musical Romance
Located in Corsham, GB
An exquisite oil study depicting a young couple by the open window of a villa. The woman plays a guitar while lovingly looking at the man behind her. The pair wear beautiful traditio...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Adrien Moreau, Woman with Picked Flowers in a Basket Resting by the Sea
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful watercolor by Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) showing a woman with freshly picked flowers in a basket resting in the grass by the sea. The colors are strong and it is mounted i...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Figurative Paintings for Sale
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
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