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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Airplane in landscape - landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful painting by Jeroen Allart is part of his minimalist landscape and animal painting he did in his home country the Netherlands. 'A farm stands before you on the horizon....
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Morning Blooming - Butter Yellow Floral Landscape Mixed Media Art on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Latex, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

On Lake Attersee-Plate signed with Dry stamp-Austria Gallery Edition-GSY Collect
Located in London, GB
This is a Limited Austrian Edition, signed on plate, with its dry stemp seal from Official Klimt Villa, published by Austria-Klimt Villa Gallery in 2012 ( seal in the picture); Gicle...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink

Illustration Style Diptych of Ripe Pomegranate Tree, Acrylic Painting on Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This beautiful painting by Romina Milano presents a contemporary interpretation of pomegranates, rendered through expressive brushwork and a vibrant, balanced palette. Organic forms ...
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2010s Fauvist Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic, Watercolor

Heaven on Earth - Ethereal green abstract landscape painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
There is this idea of heaven as a place so mysterious to me. A place gated and guarded, a place in some other realm. A place of angels. But what if heaven in here? This earth beneat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Line of Stillness” — Contemporary Seascape Painting of Calm Ocean Horizon
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work is about how formality dissolves when you’re surrounded by the right people. What is usually governed by rules, timing, and expectations quietly turns into something softer...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

English Fox Hunting Scene Oil Painting on Canvas, Horses & Hounds, Signed Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This classic equestrian hunting oil painting depicts a mounted huntsman in traditional red hunting attire, accompanied by a pack of hounds gathered beneath a large oak tree. The composition captures a quiet pause during a fox hunt, emphasizing discipline, elegance, and harmony between rider, horse, and hounds in a pastoral English countryside setting. The artist employs controlled, realistic brushwork to render the anatomy of the horse and dogs with precision, while softer atmospheric tones in the landscape create depth and balance. The muted sky and earthy palette reinforce the timeless character of traditional European hunting art, closely aligned with British sporting and fox hunting painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Fine Victorian Signed English Oil Painting Rural Landscape Cattle Crossing River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Bringing them Home' English School, 19th century signed by the artist, 'F. Thomas' oil on canvas, framed framed: 25 x 35 inches canvas : 20 x 30 inches Provenance: private collectio...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Realities, Body and Nature Landscape, Nude Tones, Desert Modernism, Botanical
Located in Barcelona, ES
This beautiful painting by Perrine Honoré explores the intimate relationship between the human body and the natural world through a layered, abstract-figurative composition. Fragment...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Shadow marshes. Richard K Blades. Painting of sea at sunset. Turner influence.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A warm sunset over Norfolk's Cromer beach. Between Thoughts is a sublime oil painting that captures the mesmerizing tranquility of a sunset over thw North Sea. The horizon is ablaze...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Henry Ward Ranger Connecticut Landscape Oil Painting 1858–1916 American Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Henry Ward Ranger Connecticut Landscape oil/panel 12 x 16 image size 21 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 framed signed LL also a plaque attached A wonderful example of Rangers painting style of...
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20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Anticipation
Located in Burlingame, CA
Eleanor Rahim’s work explores the emotional and perceptual power of water through painting and drawing. Her images do not describe a specific place so much as a state of being, where...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Red and Orange Cottages In Woodland Landscape British Modernist Pastel Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 3.75 x 4.5 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition: ve...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Pastel

Agay: Les Baumettes
Located in New York, NY
Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) Agay: Les Baumettes, 1912 Signed lower right: Guillaumin Oil on Canvas 25 1/2 x 32 inches 65 x 81 cm Listed in Armand Guilllaumin catalog by Christophe...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Red Roof Cottage Surrounded By Greenery British Modernist Pastel Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 3.75 x 4.5 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition: ve...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Pastel

View Of Lake Garda. Italy, landscape paintings, Lake Garda, horizontal, big
Located in Oslo, NO
Anna Shesterikova's "View of Lake Garda" is a large-scale, airy, light-filled canvas that evokes the spirit of a southern autumn landscape and the calm solemnity of nature. The lake ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century British Victorian Oil Spaniel Dogs Hunting Pheasant in the Woods
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Spaniels Hunting Pheasant in Woodland Attributed to George Armfield (English. 1808-1893) oil on board, framed in antique gilt swept frame (likely to be original) glass covering frame...
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19th Century English School Landscape Paintings

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Oil

French school Pastoral Landscape Cows, sheep Anonym oil painting Barbizon school
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️ Pastoral landscape⬅️ ⏩unsigned⏪ ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐38x51cm / 15x20.1 inch with frame 49x62cm / 19.2x24....
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Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Beach Goddess
Located in Zofingen, AG
Beach Goddess is a quiet reminder that divinity has nothing to do with size, shape, or perfection. A cow resting inside an open shell replaces the classical ideal with something more...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Notre Dame Flowers" Post-Impressionist Paris Street Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by American artist Gregory Sievers, capturing a romantic and atmospheric scene of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris under a sky filled with subtle ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“Where Everything Begins” — Hyperrealistic Seascape at Dawn
Located in Zofingen, AG
A moment of silence between night and day. The sea still holds the coolness and depth of darkness, yet the first path of sunlight already appears on the water — a sign of beginning, ...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Quiet Moments of Life
Located in Zofingen, AG
This large-scale painting captures the quiet flow of everyday life — moments of movement, pause, and shared presence unfolding within a green, open landscape. Figures appear and disa...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Shawinigan Roadside - painting, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This acrylic landscape by Pat Service captures a roadside view of summer in the countryside. Signed to lower right. Highly regarded as one of Canada’s finest landscape artists, Pat ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Land Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

American Impressionist Hobart Nichols Snow Scene Oil Painting Salmagundi Club
By Henry Hobart Nichols Jr.
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Landscape oil/board 16 x 20 unframed image, 26.3/8 x 30.25x3.5 framed signed LR Here is a beautiful winter snow scene oil painting on board by Hobart Nichols signed lower ri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Sea View Watercolor Original Painting on Paper
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Seascape Watercolor Original Painting Artist: Lin Qingyi Title: Riverside Town Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 7" x 7.5" x 0.1" inch ( 18x 19 ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Twist on Starry - Abstract Vincent Van Gogh Inspired Artwork by Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Foam Board

"Reflections Through Zion Canyon" Abstracted Landscape, Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
"You know you are in a special place when it radiates the colors of luck and fortune." - Michelle Condrat About the artist: Michelle Condrat was born and raised in Salt Lake City,...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Colourful and Bright Chateau Valley Landscape British Modernist Pastel Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel sketch on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 4.5 x 3.75 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condit...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil

Impressionist Painting Called Blue Grez IV, (Grez-sur-Loing) 2025
Located in Stockholm, SE
Blue Grez IV is a small yet striking painting by Swedish artist Anders Ståhl, depicting the village of Grez-sur-Loing—a village just outside Paris that has long been a source of insp...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Original-​Constable’s Clouds, Van Gogh’s Blue-Brit Awarded Artist-oil-gold leaf
Located in London, GB
Constable’s Clouds, Van Gogh’s Blue is Shizico Yi’s latest series—an exploration of landscape reimagined through memory, material, and exploration. Rather than homage, the works oper...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Anew
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic, Panel

Landscape in West Virginia w/ Tree, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Frederick Biehle American, 1885–1979 Landscape in West Virginia, 1922 Gouache, litho crayon and graphite on paper Signed lower right 19 x 17.5 inches 29.5 x 23.5 inches, frame...
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1920s Landscape Paintings

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Crayon, Gouache, Graphite

19th Century Moonlit Landscape with Rowboat, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Stockholm, SE
Louis Douzette was a prominent German landscape painter whose artistic practice bridged late Romanticism and early Naturalism. He became especially known for his evocative nocturnal scenes illuminated by moonlight, a recurring subject that defined his mature style. These works reveal a fascination with the interplay of night sky, reflected water, and atmospheric tone. Often described as lyrical or meditative, they draw the viewer into a quiet world of natural reflection and stillness. Douzette’s early training in Berlin under the marine painter Hermann Eschke grounded him in Romantic landscape traditions, but he soon developed his own voice. He found deep inspiration in the moonlit river scenes of Dutch Golden Age painters such as Aert van der Neer and Jacob van Ruisdael. His commitment to nocturnes emerged in the 1860s, a theme he returned to with increasing focus throughout his career. By the late 1870s, exposure to the Barbizon School and plein-air techniques enriched his approach, infusing his nightscapes with greater realism and atmospheric complexity. This synthesis of romantic mood and naturalist observation defines much of his later output. The present work, Moonlit Landscape with Rowboat, captures the artist’s refined handling of tone and light on an unusually intimate scale. Measuring just over 13 by 17 centimetres, the panel presents a tranquil night scene in exquisite detail. A full moon, partially veiled by drifting clouds, casts its reflection over the surface of a river. The silver light falls across the water in rhythmic bands, leading the eye toward a gently moored rowboat. A wooded shoreline flanks the composition on the right, while the distant horizon reveals faint silhouettes of trees beneath a softly glowing sky. Despite the painting’s modest format, it conveys a remarkable sense of depth and atmosphere. The sky is built with expressive, layered brushwork that suggests subtle variations in cloud density and moonlight diffusion. The reflective water is handled with delicacy, echoing the sky’s luminosity in more muted, rippling form. Dark foliage anchors the composition without overpowering it, creating a gentle contrast that enhances the nocturnal glow. The rowboat, placed with quiet purpose, introduces a human element without breaking the silence of the scene. Douzette’s contribution to 19th-century German painting...
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1890s Romantic Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Horse In The River Valley Landscape British Modernist Pastel Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel sketch on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 3.75 x 4.5 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condit...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Pastel

Nach dem Regen Oil Painting, Landscape with Figures, Signed 1873
Located in Stockholm, SE
signed and dated Otto Sinding Karlsruhe 1873 lower right oil on relined canvas framed 59 × 101 cm (23.2 × 39.8 in) unframed 41 × 83.5 cm (16.1 × 32.9 in) Provenance: The collection ...
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1870s Romantic Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape Oil Painting, Vintage French Countryside Painting with Horses
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Vintage landscape with horses oil painting on canvas. This atmospheric and unusual painting features horses shading under a tree waiting for their owners to collect them after a day...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Turning Point
Located in Burlingame, CA
Eleanor Rahim’s work explores the emotional and perceptual power of water through painting and drawing. Her images do not describe a specific place so much as a state of being, where...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

American Impressionist Woodstock Artist John F Carlson Oil Painting Snow
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Wintry Pool oil on canvas 12 x 16 image size Signed LR when viewing the painting and again verso, on back. Image measures 12 x 16 The painting is in good condition in a period gilded...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Colourful and Bright Village Street British Modernist Pastel Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 3.75 x 4.5 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition: ve...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Pastel

"Flatiron Building" Post-Impressionist NYC Winter Scene Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A vibrant and nostalgic oil on canvas painting by artist Robert Lebrone, where he captures a lively 20th Century winter evening street scene in near the Flatiron Building in New York...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bright and Colourful Valley Landscape British Modernist Pastel Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel sketch on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 4.5 x 3.75 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condit...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Pastel

French school Landscape Mediterranean coastal village Signed oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️ Mediterranean coastal village⬅️ ⏩It is signed Ru Rinaldi⏪ ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐55.5x46cm / 21.9x18.1 inch ...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

French school Landscape riverside (Moselle) with frame
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️ Landscape Pont à Mousson River ⬅️ ⏩It is signed Luc Bentz⏪ Probably Lucien Bentz ⭐Medium:⭐ Watercolor on paper ⭐Technique: ⭐ painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐31.4x...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Couple Strolling Along The Village Path British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Couple Strolling by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on artist paper, unframed size: 6.25 x 4.5 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition: very good Iri...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

View of the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius
Located in Stockholm, SE
Unknown artist (Naples), 19th century View of the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius oil on metal plate unframed: 7.8 cm (3.1 in) diameter framed: 20.5 × 20.5 cm (8.1 × 8.1 in) Thi...
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19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

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Metal

"At the end of the world" Original impressionistic landscape. Large Horizontal
Located in Oslo, NO
This artwork beautifully captures a serene coastal scene, depicting a cluster of houses perched on rugged cliffs above a tranquil sea. The brushwork is expressive, layering textures ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Antique French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Figures Walking Home at Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Walking Home at Sunset French Impressionist, late 19th century indistinctly signed to the lower corner oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 15 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection i...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Figures Stood In Hay bail Corn Field British Modernist Pastel and Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel and pencil sketch on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 4.5 x 3.75 inches provenance: private collection, Cotsw...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil

Girls and Ponies: naive surrealist outsider Alice in Wonderland style painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Step into a dreamlike pastoral paradise with this enchanting mid-century oil on canvas by French artist Denise Collet. Titled "Girls and Ponies," this wo...
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1980s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mediterranean Landscape with Olive Trees and Tower oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Mediterranean Landscape with Olive Trees and Tower Artist: Valeri Farràs (L’Estany, Catalonia, 1950– ) Medium: Oil on canvas Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher Dimensions: 46...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Passing Clouds, Before The Storm: A Dramatic Belle Époque Landscape
By Paul Leon Felix Schmitt
Located in Norwich, GB
This striking oil landscape is dominated by a vast, cinematic sky, rendered with the rapid, "plein air" brushwork that defined the late 19th-century French school. Rather than a stat...
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1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portese. Sunset, oil landscape, impressionism, boats, lake, Italy
Located in Oslo, NO
"Portese" is a 40x30 cm oil painting sketch. With rich brushstrokes and a light, almost shining palette of colors, the artist conveys the peaceful atmosphere of a small Italian town...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

California Impressionist Oil Painting Franz A. Bischoff Laguna Seascape
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Franz Arthur Bischoff seascape Laguna Tide Pools oil/board signed LR in a gilt over red clay bole and gesso carved Arts & Crafts style frame. 13 x 19 unframed, 19.5 x 25.5 framed s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Rocky Seascape Oil Painting Milton James Burns Salmagundi Club
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Rocky Seascape oil on panel The image measures 10 x 14 unframed, 12.5 x 16 framed in original frame as purchased. signed lower left. Milton James Burns 1853-1933, Founding Salmagundi Artist member in ready to hang condition. Minor craquelure in white impasto areas of the surf. Frame abrasion in upper and lower edges of canvas. A few pinpoints of in-paint show up under UV. This scene looks to me to be Black Head, on Monhegan perhaps, as Burns visited the island to draw, etc. as listed below. The following is from "The Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust" Milton Burns...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Mediterranean Garden (Under the Mandarin Trees)
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work emerges at the intersection of a personal journey through Italy and the universal image of the garden as a space of harmony and inner order. The Mediterranean garden here i...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Vintage Original Maritime Oil Painting – Signed Mody Kersten (German) Seascape
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This expressive vintage oil painting depicts a dramatic coastal seascape with powerful rolling waves crashing against rocky outcrops beneath a turbulent, light-filled sky. The artist...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Verdant Field Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Verdant Field Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 12" x 20.5" x 0.8" inch (30 x 52 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery W...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunset Italian Beach Painting, Seascape in Soft Pastels, 60x80 cm
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting, painted by a plain air artist in the studio, depicts a quiet seascape at dusk, where the sea meets rugged cliffs on the left. This place is called the Italian Beach an...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Winter Landscape at Dusk
Located in Stockholm, SE
Winter Landscape at Dusk captures the quiet enchantment of a winter valley under the dimming light of evening. The scene is likely set in Dalarna, the artist’s home region in Sweden,...
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1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Giglio - The Sign of Florence
Located in Zofingen, AG
Series: The Sign of Iris – Giglio is a painting series dedicated to Florence and its visual legacy. The iris — the historical emblem of the city — appears not as a botanical subject,...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.

The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.

The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).

Adding a landscape painting to your home can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of your own space. (Some may think of it as an aspirational window of sorts rather than a canvas.) Abstract landscape paintings by the likes of Korean painter Seungyoon Choi or Georgia-based artist Katherine Sandoz, on the other hand, bring pops of color and movement into a room. These landscapes refuse to serve as a background. Elsewhere, Adam Straus’s technology-inspired paintings highlight how our extreme involvement with our devices has removed us from the glory of the world around us. Influenced by modern life and steeped in social commentary, Straus’s landscape paintings make us see our surroundings anew.

Whether you’re seeking works by the world’s most notable names or those authored by underground legends, find a vast collection of landscape paintings on 1stDibs.