Romantic Portrait Paintings
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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1960s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
1860s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil
1830s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1820s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1890s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Panel
1840s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil
1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Burlap, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1860s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil
1840s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil
1860s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Masonite
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1830s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil
1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil
20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood
Mid-20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood
Mid-20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
1940s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Pastel, Gouache
Mid-20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Wood, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1870s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Wood
18th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Paper, Pastel
1990s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Board
1810s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1860s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Cotton Canvas
1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil