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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Emile Albert Gruppe Rocky Ocean View
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Bass Rocks, Gloucester coastal rocky formations with a sea view with a sailboat in the distance.
Oil on artist board. In an appropriate giltwood f...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
View Venice See Giudecca Guardi 18/19th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giacomo Guardi (Venice, 1764 - Venice, 1835)
View of Venice with the Giudecca Canal and the Gesuati Church
oil on canvas
34 x 42 cm. - framed 40 x 50 cm.
Expertise dott Federica Sp...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Oil Painting Figures by Shipping Harbour Port
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Trading Port
Italian artist, circa 1720's period
circle of Michele Marieschi (Italian 1696-1744)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection, UK...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Flemish 18th Century Oil Painting Swans Frightened by Dog in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Swans Startled by Dog
Flemish Old Master, 18th century
oil on bevelled wood panel, framed
framed: 14.5 x 17 inches
panel: 10 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition:...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Westminster From The South, 18th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Westminster From The South, 18th Century
by Joseph FARINGTON (1747-1821) similar to $45,000
Fine large 18th Century London view of Westminster fr...
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exquisite Pair of 17th Century Capriccios by Viviano Codazzi
Located in London, GB
VIVIANO CODAZZI (c. 1603-1672)
A Pair of Architectural Cappriccios
Oil on Canvas
24 x 28 7/8 inches (60.8 x 73.2 cms)
Provenance: Collection Pérez d...
Category
1640s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century Lanscape Oil Painting of Matlock High-Torr
By Thomas Smith (b.1720)
Located in London, GB
Thomas Smith of Derby
Matlock High-Torr Landscape
Oil on canvas
27 x 34.5 inches unframed
34 x 41.5 inches including frame
Thomas Smith of Derby (died 12 September 1767) was an Engl...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Holy Family in Barn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monuments: Sunrise, 1950s Southwestern Desert Landscape Oil Painting, 24 x 30 in
Located in Denver, CO
'Monuments: Sunrise', original vintage 1950s oil painting of a southwestern desert landscape in early morning with rock formations, trees and brush with brilliant sky with clouds by ...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Antique American Signed Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist painting. Framed in a silver modernist molding. Signed lower right.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lonely Rocks" - Original 1958 Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Lonely Rocks" - Original 1958 Watercolor on Paper
Original watercolor painting of a woman in a red dress standing on rocks along the seashore by Bertram Spencer (American, 1918-199...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
La fenetre a Meneaux - French Cubist Landscape Oil Painting by Andre Lhote
By André Lhote
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by French cubist painter André Lhote. The piece depicts a view of a mountainous landscape from a Mullion window - a decorative with a vertica...
Category
1950s Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River landscape, studio of Jan Brueghel the Younger 17th century Antwerp school
Located in PARIS, FR
River landscape
Studio of Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678)
17th century Antwerp school
Oil on copper: h. 7.48 in, w. 10.43 in
Ebonized wood and moulded frame
Framed: h. 18.4 in, ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting -- San Francisco Shore Birds
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting of San Francisco Bay Shorebirds at Surf's Edge
1950's abstract expressionist painting of shorebirds at water's edge by San Francisco arti...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Rice Paper, Watercolor
Birds with an Upturned Basket of Fruit 1
Located in West Sussex, GB
Giovanni Agostino Cassana
(c.1658 – 6 May 1720) Venetian
Birds with an Upturned Basket of Fruit
Oil on canvas: 25 x 35 in. Frame: 33 x 43 in.
Abate, or Giovanni Agostino Cassana ...
Category
1690s Renaissance Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Pair of 18th century Venetian Canal Scenes in the Style of Francesco Guardi
Located in West Sussex, GB
Style of Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)
Venetian Canal Scenes, a pair
-San Giorgio Maggiore from the Bacino di San Marco
-Santa Maria della Salute from the Grand Canal
Oils on canvas: 13 X 18 ¼ in. Frame: 18 ½ x 23 ½ in. Late 18th / early 19th century.
Francesco Guardi was an Italian painter of veduta, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School.
He was born in Venice in 1712, the son of a minor painter, Domenico Guardi, and went on to become, after Canaletto, the main painter of views of Venice in the mid-18th century.
His early figurative paintings were carried out in association with his brother, Gian Antonio, but in about 1760 Guardi turned to view painting, recording both the architecture of the city and the celebrations of its inhabitants in interior and exterior scenes. These works brought him great success. The earliest of these show the influence of Canaletto, but he gradually adopted a looser style characterized by spirited brush-strokes and freely imagined architecture.
Gallery notes: This fabulous pair of Venetian scenes are a work by a highly talented but unknown artist painting...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
Category
1950s Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Flora surrounded by her nymphs, in a landscape of ancient ruins. Il Mascacotta
By Gennaro Greco
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figures painted by Abraham Hondius
Gennaro’s paintings invented a variety of ruined Architecture and other magnificent constructions and made superb underground places and imaginary prisons with horrible appearances,” writes Bernardo de Domenici in his 1743 Vite de Pittore, Scultori, ed Architetti Napoletani.
Greco was highly esteemed in his lifetime. De Domenici titles a chapter “Notizie de Gennaro Greco … ,” with the painter’s name followed, in much smaller type, by a number of apparently lesser artists, including Leonardo Coccorante, whose star burns brightly today.
When a child, Greco’s face was horribly disfigured in a fire; for the rest of his life he was called Il Mascacotta – literally “he of the cooked face.” His biographer, however, notes several compensations. The apparently prosperous Greco had three young, beautiful wives, and a multitude of sons, including one, Vincenza, who became a painter.
A student of Andrea Pozzo’s 1693 treatise on architectural perspective – Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum – Greco’s earliest work involved painting ornament, temporary stages for religious celebrations, as well as perspectival frameworks for other artists’ figural projects.
Greco’s mature work, of which the example here is characteristic, focuses on very carefully rendered views of imaginary ruins – vedute ideate – often set by a bay with highly detailed ships and other structures beyond.
With the present picture, note the skillful manner in which the ruins are made lighter and lower contrast, as they recede into the distance enhancing the picture’s depth.
Sebastian Deya
Category
Late 17th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Beautiful European Landscape/Mountainscape by artist European Artist E. Feith
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful, large romantic landscape/mountainscape by European artist E. Feith in green tones. The painting has a silver/champagne-toned frame.
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Montmartre Paris Impressionist Oil Landscape 1950's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3253a Oil on canvas od the streets of Paris set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 9.5x8"
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century English Fox Hunting Oil Painting Wood Panel Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Over the Brook (English Fox Hunting scene)
English School, 18th century
circle of John Nost Sartorius (1759-1828)
oil on wood panel, framed
framed:...
Category
18th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
King Solomon Rubens Paint Oil on copper 17th Century Old master Flemish Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
The Judgement of King Solomon
Oil on copper (41 x 49 cm. - with ebonised and gilded wooden frame 58 x 66 cm.)
The proposed painting, executed in oil on copper, depicts the biblical episode known as the 'Judgement of King Solomon' and is taken from the Book of Kings, in the Old Testament (I Kings, 3, 16-28).
The work is derived from the painting in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen depicting the 'Judgement of Solomon', which was largely created by Rubens' workshop with some intervention by the master.
The iconography of the painting was certainly made popular by the print made by the Dutch engraver Boetius Adams Bolswert (Bolsward, c. 1585 - Antwerp, 1633) now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
The extraordinary critical and illustrative success of the work is certain, of which several replicas and copies exist, preserved in museums and private collections: Delft, Rouen and Coutrai, Liechtenstein in Vaduz and in Seville Cathedral.
The prototype for the original Copenhagen painting...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid mid century landscape of autumn trees blurring into colorful abstraction by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 10" H X 8" W.
G...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Knight - painting - XVII century
Located in Roma, IT
The Knight is an original oil painting on canvas realized during the XVII century by an anonymous artist.
Provenance: Pecci-Blunt collection. Good condition...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Summer Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive mid 20th century impressionist beach scene. Oil on board. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Tuscan Landscape', California Fauve, Paris, De Young & Oakland Museums, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, lower left, 'W. Georgetti' for Wedo Georgetti (American, 1911-2005) and painted circa 1955. Additionally signed, lower center.
Born in Italy, Wedo Georgetti came to the Uni...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil, Laid Paper
California Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper (Two Sided)
Located in Soquel, CA
California Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Original watercolor painting of a farmhouse at the top of a hill by Bertram Spencer (American, 1918-1992). A small farmhouse si...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Merry Company Party Duck 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Flemish school
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Jacob Duck (Utrecht, 1600 - 1667) attributable
Merry company in an interior
Oil painting on canvas
63 x 51 cm./ In antique box frame 80 x 70 cm.
On the back of the old frame label...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wooded Figurative River Landscape - Dutch 17thC Golden Age art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb 17th century Dutch Golden Age oil painting has been more recently reattributed to Abraham Begeyn by Dr Marijke C. de Kinkelder formerly of the RKD - Netherlands Institute...
Category
1640s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Seine in Winter', School of Paris, Tonalist, Snowy French Landscape, Mood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charles Harris', for Charles Gordon Harris (American, 1891-1963) and additionally signed verso.
A substantial and atmospheric landscape showing a view of the S...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, 18th Century follower of CANALETTO (1697-1768)
By Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
Located in Blackwater, GB
San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, 18th Century
follower of CANALETTO (1697-1768)
Large 18th Century Italian view of the San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, oil on canvas. Excellent quality ea...
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Emile Albert Gruppe Morning Gloucester
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896 - 1978), "Morning, Gloucester", oil on canvas, signed lower left "Emile A. Gruppe",
Canvas: 24 x 20 Inches
Framed: 27.25 x 23.25 Inches
Conditi...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antoine Blanchard Boulevard De Capucines, Place De La Madeleine
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine Blanchard (1910 - 1988) Boulevard Des Capucines, Place De La Madeleine. A wonderful and vibrant scene from the Grand Boulevards of Paris under the rain in fall. You can hear ...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antoine Blanchard Cafe De La Paix
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine Blanchard (1910 - 1988) Cafe de la Paix. Circa 1950 wonderful and vibrant scene from the Grand Boulevards of Paris under the rain in fall. You can hear the horses prancing an...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Arthur Meltzer “Winter Farm Landscape” Watercolor
Located in Dallas, TX
Arthur Meltzer (1893 - 1989) "Winter Farm Landscape"
Image Size: 12 x 21 inches
Framed: 32.5 x 23.5 inches
watercolor on paper landscape painting with Farm houses, barns and a tra...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper
Antoine Blanchard “L’Arc De Triumphe”
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine Blanchard, oil on canvas, "L' Arc de Triumphe", Circa 1950. A typical rainy day on the boulevards of Paris with horse drawn carriages and pedestrians getting on with their da...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Eugene Louis Boudin Mixed Media Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
Eugene Boudin (French 1824-1898) Scene de plage. Berck
Circa 1870
Fishermen and boats on the shore.
Inscribed 'Berck' LL. with the Trustee's stamp “E.B” LR
Medium: pen, ink and wat...
Category
1770s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper
La Rochelle France mixed media painting urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) - La Rochelle - Mixed media
Artwork 49x65 cm.
Frame measures 69x85 cm.
Son of cartoonist Juan Grau Miró, he was born in Barcelona in 1911. Although he a...
Category
1950s Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Emile Albert Gruppe Gloucester Docks
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Gloucester Docks, circa 1950
Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Original Frame: 26 X 30 Inches
Signed lower right: Emile A. Grup...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Arthur Meltzer “Winter Farm Landscape” Watercolor
Located in Dallas, TX
Arthur Meltzer (1893 - 1989) "Winter Farm Landscape"
Image size: 12 x 21 inches
Framed: 32.5 x 23.5 inches
watercolor on paper landscape painting with Farm houses, barns and a t...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper
Huge late 17th early 18th century Italian floral oil - Peacock doves and a duck
Located in Antwerp, BE
Huge late 17th, early 18th century Italian Old master - A peacock doves and a duck holding flowers in a park landscape at sunset, attr. Angelo Maria Crivelli
In a peaceful park land...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th century religious old master oil - Penitent Magdalene in a landscape
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century oil on copper - Penitent Magdalene in a landscape
The very finely and delicately painting depicts Mary Magdalene in a vast landscape, with a vibrant sunset colouring th...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Copper
capriccio with biblical scene painted by Giovanni Ghisolfi
Located in Milan, IT
Giovanni Ghisolfi (Milan, 1623 - 1683), attr.
Capriccio with biblical scene
Oil on canvas, 50X74 cm
Framed, 67 x 90 cm
The work under consideration depicts a biblical episode within...
Category
17th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Annunciation Religious Paint Oil on table Tuscan School 16th Century Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Tuscan School, second half of the 16th century
The Annunciation
Oil on canvas
51 x 65 cm.
In tabernacle frame 77 x 91 cm.
We offer this refined Annunciation, to be attributed to t...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th century religious old master oil - St. John the Baptist in a landscape
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century oil on copper - St. John the Baptist in a landscape with the Lamb
The very finely and delicately painting depicts St. John in a vast landscape, with a vibrant sunset co...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Copper
Crossing the ford Capriccio Baroque Landscape 18th century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
As we gaze upon at this artwork, our eyes are immediately drawn to the foreground where a comical spectacle unfolds before us. A carriage, stubbornly stuck in the midst of a ford, se...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Toeletta Albani Mythological Paint Oil on canvas 17th Century Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The Toilet of Venus
Francesco Albani (Bologna 1578 - 1660), workshop of
oil on canvas
62 x 76 cm. - framed 70 x 84 cm. (period frame)
The proposed painting, depicting the Toeletta ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paint Oil on canvas 17th Century Italy Mediterranean Landscapes Marina Flandre
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
We present this pair of fascinating coastal views, the fruit of the author's imagination, executed with an elegant descriptive taste and conceived with the scenographic sensitivity t...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Ponte Milvio in Rome
Located in Roma, RM
Northern painter active in Rome in the second half of the 17th century, View of Ponte Milvio
Oil painting on canvas 73 x 97 cm in coeval Roman Salvator Rosa frame.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
House In The Green - Original Acrylic On Paper
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
House In The Green - Original Acrylic On Paper
Original acrylic painting depicting a white house in the woods surrounded by greenery by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Two white ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Shepherds Cattle in Capriccio Landscape 17th century Old Master Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed to Dutch artist, youngest Jan Van der Meer (1656-1705) or his circle. Pastoral scene with little livestock and figures of reclining shepherds by town walls, castle or cath...
Category
17th Century Dutch School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Fine 17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil Military Encampment Figures on Horseback
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Military Encampment
Dutch School, 17th century
circle of Philips Wouwermans (Dutch 1619-1668)
oil painting on canvas, in 18th century gilt frame
canvas measures: 19.5 x 17 inches...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ghisolfi Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Architectural Capriccio Art
By Giovanni Ghisolfi (Milan 1623 - 1683)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giovanni Ghisolfi
(Milan 1623 - 1683)
Architectural capriccio with ruins of an Ionic temple
Oil painting on canvas
73 x 87 cm.,
within a gilded wooden frame 87 x 100 cm.
This quali...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rococò Venetian master - 18th century figure painting - Masked figurines
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Gallant scene with masked characters.
80 x 63.5 cm without frame, 87.5 x 70.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a wooden frame.
C...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Landscape Flemish School Nature Wayfarers Oil on Canvas Green
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on panel measuring 48 x 32 cm without frame and 58 x 43 cm with frame depicting a landscape with figures from the Flemish school of the 18th century.
A lively painting ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Flemish School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, oil on panel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967)
Les Oliviers, A landscape with olive trees
signed "EODV Guillonnet" lower right
Oil on wood panel
38 x 46 cm
Framed : 44 x 52 cm
Provena...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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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).
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