In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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19th Century German Night Street Scene Salzuflen Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small city scene by Anders Montan captures a quiet street in the spa town of Bad Salzuflen in the principality of Lippe, rendered with a sensitivity that reveals the artist’s ke...
Oil, Laid Paper
$513Sale Price|82% Off
French school Romantic seascape, oil painting Signed 1879
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️ Romantic Seascape⬅️ ⏩It is signed A Cayrot⏪ ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐50x75.5cm / 19.7x 29.7inch ⭐Date: 1879⭐...
Oil, Canvas, Stretcher Bars, Gesso
Seascape at Sunset, Romantic Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, Signed
Located in Genève, GE
Signed "G. Goldberg" This atmospheric seascape captures a tranquil coastal scene at sunset, where the fading light reflects delicately across the surface of the water. The compositi...
Canvas, Oil
Gibraltar, Landscape Painting, 19th Century Marine Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
This atmospheric marine painting, Twilight in Gibraltar, is a characteristic work by the Danish artist Lauritz (Laurits) Bernhard Holst (1848–1934), whose oeuvre is closely associate...
Canvas, Oil
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 ...
Canvas, Oil
Moonlight Coastal Landscape with Reflections, 1909 – Elias Muukka
Located in Stockholm, SE
Elias Muukka (1853–1938) Finland Månsken vid stranden (Moonlight by the Shore), 1909 signed and dated 09 oil on canvas unframed 31 × 40.5 cm (12.2 × 15.9 in) framed 44 × 54 cm (17....
Canvas, Oil
Evening Calm, Fishing Boats at Anchor, c. 1835
Located in Stockholm, SE
Evening Calm, Fishing Boats at Anchor is a painting Per Wickenberg, capturing a serene twilight along a sheltered coast. Fishing boats rest quietly at anchor, their sails lowered and...
Canvas, Oil
French Harbor Scene, Le Havre – Alfred Bergström
Located in Stockholm, SE
This refined harbour scene from Le Havre presents a quiet yet vivid impression of a working port along the northern coast of France. Alfred Bergström constructs the composition from ...
Oil, Board
$1,207Sale Price|30% Off
Trees & Fields in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Trees & Fields in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Prove...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Evening Landscape with River and Farmhouses, 1898
Located in Stockholm, SE
Evening Landscape with River and Farmhouses by August Alvén captures a moment of profound quiet in the Swedish countryside just after sunset. The glowing sky transitions from warm ap...
Canvas, Oil
$16,607
Sunset by Hilding Werner (1925) – Formerly Owner Sven-Göran “Svennis” Eriksson
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sunset (1925) depicts a serene lake in Värmland at the close of day, suffused with the golden light of dusk. In this composition, Werner captures one of his signature motifs: a broad...
Canvas, Oil
$1,601Sale Price|20% Off
Painting of Farm with Geese in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Farm with Geese in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage Series No.111 Art measures 10 x 8 inches (approx.) Frame measures 15 x 13 inches (approx.) James Wright was born in Peterborough in 1935 and now lives in Lincolnshire. James is a self-taught artist and a leading exponent of the traditional English landscape style. His early work concentrated on the busy fishing villages around the coast of Norfolk, Cornwall and Sussex. More recently, his traditional landscapes mainly feature the East Anglian and Lincolnshire countryside. About the English Heritage Collection From the most powerful to the most humble, from Bronze Age axes...
Oil, Canvas
$1,722
Horse & Figure in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Horse & Figure in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Proven...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,380Sale Price|20% Off
Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenanc...
Canvas, Oil
$2,995
Antique 19th Century Marine Seascape Coastal Maritime English Channel Painting
By James Webb
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique marine oil painting by James Webb (1825-1895), circa 1860, ex-Sothebys. The painting depicts a stormy or squally sea, most likely the English channel, the rocky cliff...
Oil, Board
$8,720Sale Price|20% Off
Golden Light on Shepherd and Flock, Romantic 19th century
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Dramatic and beautiful, light shines on the bucolic flock of sheep as the village, skies and hills remain in darkness, John Linnell (1792-1882) gives us a metaphor of coming through ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
#5176
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas over wood panel signature on verso Hiro Yokose paints images of nature composed in subtle, sensuous palettes. Playing with the viewer’s perceptions, his work c...
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
Cormorans au coucher du soleil sur l’Arctique
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR
This work by Eduard Hildebrandt stands out for its striking poetic and visual power, fully embodying the spirit of 19th-century Romantic travel painting. It depicts a spectacular Arc...
Oil
Romantic French painting Italy Como lake monks Mid 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Jules SANSON Active in the 1830s and 1840s The arrival of the young girl at the monastery on the shores of Lake Como Oil on canvas 27 x 35.5 cm (31.5 x 39.5 cm with the frame) Signed...
Oil
Romantic Mountain Landscape with Waterfall - Turn of the Century Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Romantic Mountain Landscape with Waterfall - Turn of the Century Oil Painting Vibrant painting of an alpine landscape, likely inspired by the American West by Charles Christian Eise...
Canvas, Oil
$8,506Sale Price|20% Off
View from Månberget, Källvik (1912)
Located in Stockholm, SE
The view from Månberget at sunset, as captured by Gottfrid Kallstenius in this 1912 oil painting, displays a warm golden light over Djupsundet, framed by the silhouette of a gnarled ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,352Sale Price|20% Off
Original 1861 Late Romantic Naturalist Landscape Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Original 1861 Late Romantic Naturalist Landscape Painting This piece features a small countryside cottage and two figures, with the dramatic backdrop of layered mountains and low cl...
Linen, Oil
$2,388Sale Price|20% Off
BREDOW Snow landscape moonlight night German Russian school romantic 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Albert BREDOW Germany, 1828 – Moscow, 1899 Oil on canvas Signed lower right "ABredow" 43 cm x 62 cm (67 x 85 cm with frame) Albert Bredow is a German-Russian landscape painter, lit...
Oil
Decorative river landscape in romantic style, oil on canvas
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Decorative river landscape in romantic style, Signed lower left 'I Roy', unknown artist, Oil on canvas Dimensions excl. frame: 49 x 65 Dimensions incl. frame: 64 x 80 x 7 cm. In go...
Canvas, Oil
$5,376
Large 19th century Victorian oil landscape - Countryside Sunset - 1887
Located in Aartselaar, BE
George William Mote (1832–1909) Landscape with Cattle on a Country Path, 1887 A luminous and richly detailed late-19th-century landscape by George William Mote, dated 1887, showcasi...
Canvas, Oil
Rocky Landscape at Sunset, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1900
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sunset landscape by Hans Agersnap presents a quiet and ccontemplative view of the Danish countryside at the close of day. The composition is dominated by undulating hills, bathe...
Canvas, Oil
'Bather at Dusk', Salon des Artistes Français, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, on attached fragment, 'L. Verite' for Lucien Henri Alphonse Verite (French, 1866-1926) and painted circa 1890. Verite studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris bef...
Canvas, Oil
1960s Framed Romantic Oil Painting of the Flower Market and Theatre de Cherbourg
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid century oil on board painting of a colourful flower market in the square of the Grand Theatre in Cherbourg, northern France by J Lietard. The painting is signed bottom rig...
Oil, Board
Golden Sunset Reflections over a Brook in the Evening Silence
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this atmospheric landscape at sunset, Fredrik Lagerström captures a fleeting twilight moment with vivid intensity. The sky is aglow with brilliant gold and amber hues, which are m...
Canvas, Oil
Study of the Biedermeier Style Genre Painting The Attic Room by Carl Spitzweg
Located in Soquel, CA
Study of the Biedermeier Style Painting The Attic Room by Carl Spitzweg This painting is a study after The Attic Room by Carl Spitzweg signed "Perez" and executed in homage to Spitz...
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,128Sale Price|48% Off
Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Figurative Oil Painting on Wood Painted in the manner of late Romanticism, this charming miniature pastoral landscape by Edmund Fri...
Gesso, Oil, Board
A Spring Sunset, Original Oil Painting from 1952
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite painting by the artist Otto Lindberg (1880-1955) is a mesmerizing depiction of a spring sunset. Crafted in 1952, this piece stands as one of Lindberg's final paintings...
Canvas, Oil
Alfred Friedländer (1860–1933), Genre Scene with elegant company&Fortune Teller
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Finely executed oil painting on panel by the Austrian artist Alfred (Ritter von Malheim) Friedländer (Vienna, 1860 – 1933). The work depicts an elegant company that has paused alon...
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,400
Sunset behind the Trees, Romantic 19th Century Oil on Canvas, Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Frederik Aagaard, Sunset over Dyrehaven. Signed C.F. Aagaard. Oil on canvas laid on card box panel. 22×32 cm without frame. A tergo written:...
Canvas, Oil
$14,000
At the City Gates, early 20th century signed orientalist oil painting
By Douglas Arthur Teed
Located in New York, NY
Douglas Arthur Teed (American, 1863-1929) Title: At the City Gates Medium: oil on canvas Size: 8 ¼ x 13 inches / 15 x 20 inches framed Markings: Signed and dated 1902 on the...
Canvas, Oil
$1,048Sale Price|20% Off
Winter Landscape Snow Scene in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Winter Landscape Scene with Snow & Winter Trees in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...
Canvas, Oil
Along the River “La Meuse” by Martinus Kuytenbrouwer, 1821 – 1897, Signed
Located in Knokke, BE
Martinus Kuytenbrouwer Amersfoort, The Netherlands 1821 – 1897 Paris, France Dutch Painter Along the River “La Meuse” Signature: signed lower right 'Martinus' Medium: oil on canvas...
Canvas, Oil
$1,432
Allegory of Love, Cupid With Beauty in Fine Dress Carrying a Basket of Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 18th Century oil on canvas laid on board of a young beauty in period costume carrying a basket of flowers on her head. Presented in a very fine gilt, period 'Directoire' frame...
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Alpine Landscape with Mother and Children" Antique Oil Painting Europe Nature
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas Canvas Size: 29 x 44 in. Frame Size: 36 x 51 in. Unsigned A marvelous antique oil on canvas painting, exemplary of Romantic Dutch painting that depicts a sweeping, dra...
Canvas, Oil
$2,850Sale Price|30% Off
Farm Scene with Haystacks in the English Countryside by Realist Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Farm Scene with Haystacks in the English Countryside by British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a gilt frame ...
Canvas, Oil
Children Flying Kites
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Children Flying Kites" 1963, is an oil painting on hardboard by noted Haitian artist Bourmont Byron, 1920-2004. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner ...
Oil
$4,720Sale Price|20% Off
Standing Stones on Machrie Moor, Scotland, Solstice, 19th Century oil on canvas
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Solstice with the famous Celtic Standing Stones over the Moor of Machrie, Scotland, silhouettes rise up over the marsh. Painted in the 1800s by Scottish artist John MacWhirter (1839-...
Canvas, Oil
$657Sale Price|52% Off
Courtship in the Forest French Romantic School XIX century oil on canvas
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: *Courtship in the Forest* Author: French Romantic School Technique: Oil on canvas Support: Canvas mounted on a stretcher Unframed dimensions: 11.4 x 7.9 inches Frame...
Canvas, Oil
$3,257Sale Price|20% Off
Horse Drawn Plough with Two Horses Ploughman and Dog by British Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Horse Drawn Plough with Two Horses, Ploughman and his Dog. Signed, Oil on Canvas, housed in a gilt frame, by British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Art measures 24 x 16 inches Fram...
Canvas, Oil
$3,464
The Glow of the Past: Lundström’s Stockholm with a Touch of Mystery
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present this painting by Ernst Lundström, dedicated to the esteemed sculptor Per Hasselberg. The dedication on the front of the painting makes this piece particular...
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
#3671
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas over panel Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of ligh...
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
$1,380Sale Price|20% Off
Country Lane with Trees & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Country Lane with Trees & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...
Canvas, Oil
Lake Landscape at Dusk with a Rowboat, 1896
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Lake Landscape at Dusk with a Rowboat" is a captivating oil painting by the Swedish artist Erik Abrahamsson. Created in 1896, this work masterfully captures the tranquil beauty of a...
Canvas, Oil
$10,368Sale Price|40% Off
Early 1800s Scottish seascape after JMW Turner by two Nasmyth sisters
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Atmospheric and dramatic seascape painted by two sisters from the famed Nasmyth family of 18th/19th century Scottish artists. The names of A G Nasmyth (Anne Gibson) and Jane Nasmyth ...
Oil, Canvas
Dutch Family in the Forest - Original Signed Figurative Genre Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Dutch Family in the Forest - Original Signed Figurative Genre Painting Charming figurative genre painting of a Dutch family in the forest by an unknown artist. The painting is skill...
Canvas, Oil
$1,380Sale Price|20% Off
Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Proven...
Oil, Canvas
Enfants à la plage Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Signed, Circa 1865-1875
Located in Stockholm, SE
Albert Roosenboom was a Belgian genre painter celebrated for his elegant depictions of everyday life in the mid to late 19th century. A pupil of the renowned Constantin Meunier, Roos...
Oil, Wood Panel
French Mid 19th Century Portrait of an Italian Brigand. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century oil on canvas portrait of an Italian brigand, unsigned, in painted wood and gilt frame. The painting is a fine and fascinating rendition with plenty of wonderful character and detail to the costume, accessories, landscape and seascape. Very atmospheric and imposing much like the character it portrays. There is a trade stamp to the back of the canvas for the Paris firm of Susse Freres. The canvas is on a fine quality stretcher with 'keys'. There is an artist's name or title written on the top of the rear stretcher (see photo). Bands of brigands who populated the hills of southern Italy were steady fodder for the Romantic imagination, and their exploits were reported both factually, fancifully and artistically The painting dates from a period when France, under its then leader Napoleon III, was involved in the conflicts in the Italian states and the unification and eventual creation of the nation of Italy. An earlier and similar portrait exists of the infamous brigand Mazzocchi by Achille-Etna Michallony . Léon Cogniet...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$1,325Sale Price|20% Off
Early 1800's Italian Oil Painting Romantic Light Landscape Figure by River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Riverside Pathway Italian School, early 1800's period oil painting on paper laid on board, unframed size: 12.75 x 17.5 inches condition: overall very good for age, a few very sma...
Oil
$2,500
#5177
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas over wood panel signature on verso Hiro Yokose paints images of nature composed in subtle, sensuous palettes. Playing with the viewer’s perceptions, his work c...
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
$8,119Sale Price|20% Off
Swedish Värmland Landscape With a Red Barn by Hilding Werner, Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hilding Werner, A Värmland artist, was a distinguished Swedish painter and draftsman. Born to landowner Anders Andersson and Inga Maria Johannesdotter, ...
Masonite, Oil
$171Sale Price|20% Off
Christmas Tree In The Snow. Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An oil on panel view of a Christmas tree in a landscape heavy with snow by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom left. A charming view of a snow scene, a Christmas tree its branches...
Oil, Board
$6,088Sale Price|20% Off
Landscape View Florence 18/19th Century Paint Tuscany school Oil on canvas Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
18th-19th century landscape painter Panoramic view of Florence Oil on canvas 32 x 51 cm In gilded frame 42 x 63 cm Hampel: Paintings 19th/20th Jahrhundert, 21.02.2024, lot 99...
Oil
$1,970Sale Price|20% Off
Dutch Golden Age Romantic Landscape Sunset Figures by River & Arch Bridge Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dutch School, 19th century signed oil on panel, framed framed: 17.5 x 21 inches panel: 14 x 18 inches provenance: private collection condition: good and sound condition
Oil
$10,753
Sheltering from the storm / - Romantic landscape illuminated by lightning bolt -
Located in Berlin, DE
George Morland (1763 London - 1804 Brighton). Sheltering from the Storm. Oil on canvas, relined, 37.5 x 29.5 cm (visible size), 53.5 x 45.5 cm (...
Oil