Figurative Paintings
Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Color: Beige
Country Life
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 6 x 12 inches
Framed size: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Signed
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trouble at the Garage
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pilgrims Fairwell
By Frank T. Marrill
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1880
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 18.20" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1880s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique 19th century English fishing vessels In the English Channel
Located in Woodbury, CT
Antique 19th century English fishing vessels In the English Channel
William Henry Williamson was a gifted, London painter of coastal scenes, ...
Category
1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fair Price
By Fabio Fabbi
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Fabio Fabbi, born in Italy in 1861, stands as an acclaimed Orientalist painter renowned for his devotion to capturing the exotic allure of the Orient. His mastery of oil painting on ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Place de la Bastille - Impressionist Snowy Cityscape by Eugene Galien-Laloue
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist gouache on board circa 1890 by sought after French painter Eugene Galien-Laloue. The piece depicts a depicting a bustling city scene at the Place de Bastille in ...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
" At The Port" 19th Century Academic Realist Landscape Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Jacksonville, FL
"Sunrise on the Shore" by Andreas Schelfhout stands as a testament to the extraordinary talent of the Dutch artist, born in The Hague in 1787. A prominent figure of the Romantic move...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
'Portrait of a Gentleman Seated and Reading', Regency, Early Victorian Dandy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Richmond' for George Richmond, RA (British, 1809 – 1896) and painted circa 1845. Displayed in a period, carved and giltwood frame. (Framed dimensions: 22.75 x 21.5 x 1.0)
This English painter and portraitist was a founding member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. Later in life, he established himself as a successful society portrait painter of the British gentry, nobility and royalty.
George Richmond was the son of Thomas Richmond the miniature-painter and, also, the father of the painter William Blake Richmond. For a short time, he attended a day school in Soho, before became a student at London's Royal Academy. Here he was much impressed by Henry Fuseli, his professor of painting, and formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Palmer, and had as fellow-students and companions Edward Calvert...
Category
1840s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Two Generals and a Horse
Located in Austin, TX
A naturalistic oil painting depicting two soldiers wearing regalia with a black horse. The scene is set in on a farm in a rural landscape.
The paining measures 6.25 x 6.75 inches. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Erotic Scene - Original Gouache on Silk
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a gouache and China ink original painting on silk, realized probably in the second half of XIX century by an anonymous Japanese artist of XIX century,
From a collection of twelve Japanese erotic silk paintings, wrongly titled "Shunga", mounted under a yellow cardboard Passepartout, cm 37 x 26.8, this modern artwork of little dimensions, but of extraordinary quality represents an erotic scene between two young Japanese lovers portrayed in their intimate situation and with their sophisticated traditional costumes and hairstyle.
Without ever being vulgar or too explicit but with extreme elegance, our ancient Japanese artwork...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'My Old Kentucky Home'
Located in Washington, DC
Watercolor on paper executed by German-American artist Richard Veenfliet
"My Old Kentucky Home" references one of the ballads written by American composer Stephen Foster in 1852.
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Study for The Song of Evening - British Symbolist painting by William Shackleton
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM SHACKLETON, NEAC
(1872-1933)
Study for “The Song of the Evening”
Signed l.r.: Wm Shackleton; signed and inscribed with title and the artist’s address on the reverse
Oil on ...
Category
Late 19th Century Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arabian Rider at Dusk
Located in Austin, TX
Adolf Schreyer's "Arabian Rider at Dusk" is a stunning oil painting on canvas that depicts an Arabian rider in a golden sunset.
By Adolf Schreyer
8.5" x 15.5" Oil on Canvas
Framed...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le pont de Saint Gérmain de Couilly (sur le Grand Morin)
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited:
Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1879 (no. 647)
Category
1870s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
19 century Roman girl.
Located in MADRID, ES
Big oil on painting by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz.
Certificated by Wilfredo Rincón .
227 and 118 cm without frame.
Category
1880s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Painting, Small Shooting Scene By Chapman Bayley (British, Active 1818-1832)
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil on canvas Shooting by the woods by Chapman Bayley (1818-1832)
Early 19th Century gent standing by the woods with his two dogs shooting.
Signed by the artist in original frame.
Ch...
Category
1820s English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Miles Edmund Cotman
By Miles Edmund Cotman
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very dramatic marine scene with the translucency of the waves captured with incredible skill and vision.
Attributed to Miles Edmund Cotman (1810-1858)
Shipping in rough seas
Oil on board
7 x 10 inches
The eldest son of John Sell Cotman...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
19th century French painters oil View of Venice from a canal
Located in Woodbury, CT
Edouard Jacques Dufeu, born in Marseille on March 27, 1836, and died in Grasse on December 1, 1900, is a French painter and engraver.Hailing from a family originally from Egypt, Dufe...
Category
1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Washerwomen by the river, oil on canvas by Karl Girardet
Located in Gent, VOV
This painting is part of a series of paintings Girardet made of washerwomen by the river. Upon their presentation they had a considerable success, which endures till now. In 2008 another painting of this series was sold at Christie's .
Karl Girardet was born in 1813 in Le Locle, which at the time was part of France but is now part of Switzerland. Girardet lived and worked most of his life in Paris. After beginning his career as a painter of landscapes, he became a well-known history painter. As a confidant of the French king Louis Philippe I...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, ABS
Fine Victorian Oil Figure in Rowing Boat at Sunset on Scottish Loch in Highlands
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Joseph Horlor (1809-1887) British
A Figure in a rowing boat at dusk on a mountain lake, Scottish
oil painting on canvas, signed lower right: 9 x 14 inche...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Discussion - Oil on Board - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Discussion is an original oil on canvas realized in the 19th Century by an italian artist.
Original oil tempera on board.
Gilded wood Frame is included. 30.5 x 34.5 x 34.5 cm
...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Antique Painting, Oil on Canvas, 19th Century. Walking the Dog and Castle View
Located in Berlin, DE
Decorative antique painting, oil on canvas, 19th century. Walking the dog, castle view.
Dimensions with frame: 65.5 cm x 74 cm
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harbour view. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
Charles John de Lacy (1856 – 13 December 1929) was one of the foremost British marine artists of his period. He was especially known for his warship imagery an...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Battle of Auerstaedt, October 14th 1806
Located in Paris, FR
Georges HYON (1840 - 1909)
Battle of Auerstaedt, October 14th 1806
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
Dimensions : 59 x 78 3/4 inches
(Dimensions : 150 x 200 cm)
Framed : 66 7/8 x 86 5/8 inches
(Framed : 170 x 220 cm)
Provenance :
-Private collection
Exhibition:
-French Salon of 1891; exhibited under number 849
Formed in multiple squares, the French infantry resisted the assaults of the Prussian cavalry which broke on these impassable walls bristling with thousands of rifle bayonets...
Category
19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Minimalist Watercolor Painting of Orientalist Dancer
Located in New York, NY
Gypsie Dancer by Federico Fernandez y Giminez (1846-1873)
Watercolor on paper, signed 'F. Fernandez Giminez' lower right.
Diffused and hazy brushwork defines this work as the woman sits in a gestured garden depicted in stark contrast to her detailed clothing and jewelry. Instead of crafting an intricately detailed background similar to the famous Jean-Léon Gérôme, Giminez pins our focus on the figure, providing soft atmospheric gestures of background elements, hi lighting the details of oriental clothing...
Category
19th Century Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Late 19thCentury English Fisherman Figural Landscape Watercolor, "Golden Autumn"
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century figurative landscape watercolor painting of a fisherman in a small boat on a small pond in London, by H. Darnelli ( England, 19th C). Signed “H. Darrnelli” in the ...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
View on the Governor’s Palace in Paramaribo, Surinam
Located in Amsterdam, NL
GOVERT VAN EMMERIK (1808-1882)
View on the Governor’s Palace in Paramaribo, Surinam
Signed and dated 1856
Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm
In large gilt...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Anita Garibaldi - Oil Paint - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on glass. Rare portrait of Anita Garibaldi, wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Realized in the late 19th century, it represents the beloved wife of the italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi....
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique 19th century English Impressionist classical landscape with figures
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding English Impressionist landscape with figures strolling under trees with the sea beyond.
Joseph Vickers de Ville was a son of the farmers Joseph and Mary Deville. He was...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Fine 19th Century Interior Scene Baronial Hallway Children Playing on Staircase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Country House Interior
British School, 19th century
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 21 x 17 inches
framed: 24 x 20 inches
conditon: very sound, presentable and good. Frame...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Henri Carnier (Karl Kaufmann), 19th Century, Busy European Harbor View
Located in Berlin, DE
Henri Carnier, 19th century busy European harbor view
Signed lower left.
Frame damaged.
Dimensions without frame: 32 cm x 48 cm
With frame: 50.5 cm x 66.5 cm
From 1900 Karl Kaufma...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Country House - Farm Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
The Country House - Farm Landscape
Highly detailed scene with a country house, workers, and a hare with rider by an unknown artist (19th Century). Five people - one on a horse - are...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
Cattle By Pond At Dusk, Mid-19th Century Tonalist Landscape by William Keith
Located in Soquel, CA
Cattle By Pond At Dusk, Mid-19th Century Tonalist Landscape by William Keith
Gorgeous mid-19th century landscape painting by William Keith (American, 1838-1911), circa 1860. This impressive Tonalist landscape, titled "In the Woods", depicts cattle beside a pond in the forest at dusk. Keith uses loose, blended brush strokes and a muted earthy palette to create an atmospheric mood that Tonalism is known for.
Signed "W. Keith" lower left.
Museum label on verso from Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Presented in an antique giltwood frame.
Image size: 9"H x 13"W. With frame measures: 16"H x 20"W x 3"D.
Provenance:
Mrs. Eugene Patterson; Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Authenticity guaranteed and certificate include.
Condition:
Very good. Cleaning and restoration required signature to be re-touched, original images pre-restoration available.
About the Artist:
Brought to New York City in 1850, William Keith was apprenticed to a wood engraver in 1856 working for "Harper's" magazine. In 1858 (or 1859) he visited California for "Harper's" and then after a trip to Great Britain, settled in California as an engraver in 1862. He began exhibiting paintings in 1864 in San Francisco where he opened his studio, after having been taught painting by his wife.
The Northern Pacific Railroad...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
The North East Coast of England, Ralph Stubbs, Bridlington 1826 – 1879 Levisham
Located in Bruges, BE
The North East Coast of England
Stubbs Ralph
Bridlington 1826 – Levisham 1879
English Painter
Signature: Signed bottom right and dated 1861, verso stamp
Dimensions: Image size 58,5...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thomas Whittle the Younger (1842-1915) - Late 19th Century Oil, Fishing Boats
Located in Corsham, GB
A coastal scene with fishing boats beached on the sand and some sailing in the distance. Figures stand to the left of the foreground. Presented in a white mount and a black reeded wo...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victorian Signed Oil Painting Fishing Boats in Choppy Seas off Old Harbour
By William Henry Williamson (1820-1883)
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Off the Harbour
by William Henry Williamson (British 1820-1883)
signed and dated 1874
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 12 x 18 inches
fr...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil Sketch for the Painting "Gustavus II Adolphus before the Battle of Lützen"
Located in Stockholm, SE
This is an oil sketch for the famous painting "Gustavus II Adolphus before the Battle of Lützen" today in the Göteborgs Konstmuseum's collection.
There is something special with an ...
Category
1890s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterfront Farm, original oil on canvas, C19th, naturalistic style
By Louis Dubois
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This beautiful oil-on-panel painting of a tranquil waterfront farm that is over 120 years old is by the Belgian painter Louis Dubois (1830–1880).
Dubois...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chateau Gaillard, On The Seine A 19th Century French Landscape
By Alfred East
Located in Lincoln, GB
Sir Alfred East RA (1844-1913) Château Gaillard, on the Seine
oil on canvas Signed
71 x 91cm (27 15/16 x 35 13/16in)
Sir Alfred East was born in 1844 ...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Set of Four Chinese Immortals Screen Paintings, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes—the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a room. ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Gouache
"A Good Read, Venice, " Watercolor, 19th c. Realist, Small, Richly Detailed
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Antonio Canella, born in 1849, was a Venetian painter who exhibited in Venice and Paris. He painted charming vignettes of street life in Venice and the...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Boy Oil on Canvas
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exquisite oil on canvas painting by artist Arthur Bowen Davies (American 1862-1928). The work depicts a young nude man walking through a lush green, ethereal landscape. Thick earth-t...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Gulf and the Bay of Pozzuoli - Gouache - Early 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Titled on lower center.
Image 36.4x49 - 14.33 x 19.29 in. / Frame 54.7 x 66.5 - 21.54 x 26.18 in.
Beautiful 19th century representation of the Gulf and the Bay of Pozzuoli near Nap...
Category
Early 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Departure of the Caravan
Located in New York, NY
Departure of the Caravan, 1834-1887, by Theodore Frere (1814-1888)
Oil on wood
10 x 16 inches unframed (25.4 x 40.64 cm)
18 ¾ x 24 ¾ inches framed (47.625 x 62.865 cm)
Signed on bott...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“French Cavaliers”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on wooden panel painting of horse riding French cavaliers in battle. Signed lower left. Not dated. Original period gilded frame in fine condition. Painting has been recently professionally cleaned. Painting and frame circa 1875. Overall framed measurements are 16 by 14 inches. Condition of the painting is very good. Provenance: Saint Petersburg, Florida estate.
Charles Michel Guilbert D'anelle was a pupil of Horace Vernet ( known for his military paintings...
Category
1870s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Water Carriers in Naples - Oil Paint Henri Lehmann Attr. - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Water Carriers in Naples is an original old master artwork attributed to Henri Lehmann (1814-1882) and made in the 19th century.
Mixed colored oil on Ca...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil Sketch of a French boat yard, with men in a wood saw pit in harbor landscape
By Jacques-Eugene Feyen
Located in Woodbury, CT
Excellent quality Oil Sketch of a French boat yard, with men in a wood, saw pit in a harbor landscape.
The elder brother of painter Auguste Feyen-Perrin, Jacques-Eugène enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under Paul Delaroche. He had a notable career at the Paris Salon from 1841 to 1882. Vincent van Gogh was a fan of Feyen and describes him as, "one of the few painters who pictures intimate modern life as it really is, and does not turn it into fashion plates." He set up a studio and settled in summer in the town of Cancale. He spent several months every year painting views of Cancale, the oyster-picking Cancalaises, and the bay of Mont Saint-Michel, and his paintings still enjoy steady fame.
This sketch came from a collection of sketches...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1890's French Impressionist Oil Painting Lady Walking Country Landscape Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure in Landscape
French School, circa 1890's
follower of Camille Pissarro (Danish/ French 1830-1903)
dated 'Mai 1890' to the lower right corner.
oil painting on canvas, framed
ca...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique English 19th century man with horse in landscape on pathway with friend
By David Hardy
Located in Woodbury, CT
David Hardy was an English genre painter who exhibited from 1855 -1870 in various English galleries such as the British Institute, the Suffolk Street Gallery, and one example at the ...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'The Midday Rest', Breton Figural Harvest Scene oil, Brittany Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Late 19th century French School, unsigned and painted circa 1860. Oil on artist prepared panel.
A late 19th century oil landscape, painted in the style of Jean-François Millet, show...
Category
1850s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
China Export Watercolour on Pith Paper: A Set of Twelve Processions
Located in London, GB
[China Export Water-colours on Pith Paper]
A Set of Twelve Processions.
China, ca. 1870].
Water-colour and gouache studies on pith paper, framed by blue silk ribbon, all mounted.
...
Category
1870s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Rice Paper, Watercolor
Guillaume-François Colson - Sur la plage, french, beach, 19th century, painting
Located in London, GB
Guillaume-François Colson (1785-1860)
Sur la plage
oil on canvas
35 x 65 cm
signed 'Colson' (lower right)
Price:
£18,000 GBP
Provenance:
MacConnal-Mason Fine Paintings
Private coll...
Category
19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Loading the Crop
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 20 x 30 inches
Signed and dated ' 1902' lower left
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century genre oil painting of a mother and daughter
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
George Goodwin Kilburne
British, (1839-1924)
A Tender Moment
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 15.75 inches x 12.75 inches
Size including frame: 20.5 inches x 17.5 inches
George G...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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.
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