Romantic Portrait Paintings
ROMANTIC STYLE
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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Style: Romantic
1852 oval Portrait of Marie Potonie (Sievers), Oil Painting
Located in Berlin, DE
Ornate, decorative oil painting.
Illustration of Marie Potonie (born Sievers).
Marie was the daughter of the royal Prussian court painter Johannes Sievers.
Extremely fine painting....
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,684 Sale Price
27% Off
Portrait of a young Girl with a Doll, Basile de Loose, Belgium, 19th, Romantic
By Basile de Loose
Located in Greven, DE
Basile de Loose
Portrait of a Child
signed and dated „1861“
Basile De Loose (17 December 1809 – 24 October 1885) was a Belgian painter.
He was born in Zele, East Flanders, United K...
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mother and Daughters”, Dutch Interior scene, Romantic style, oil on canvas
Located in Naples, Florida
Bernard Pothast (1882-1966)
Although born in Belgium in 1882, Bernard Pothast was the...
Category
20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Portrait of Marie Louise"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Artist (19th Century)
"Portrait of Marie Louise"
This exquisite 19th-century miniature portrait depicts a refined young woman, identified as Marie Louise, dressed in a...
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Within, 21st Century Contemporary Classical Portrait Painting of a woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tanvi Pathare
Within
Contemporary Florence Portrait painting
105 x 115 cm oil on linen (frame included in price) size with frame: 110 x 120 cm
Tanvi Pathare from India attended the...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Luna, 21st Century Contemporary Classical Portrait Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tanvi Pathare
Luna
Contemporary Florence Portrait painting
Ø 80 cm oil on linen (frame included in price) size with frame: Ø 100 cm
Tanvi Pathare from India attended the Florence A...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Head Study
Located in London, GB
Joseph-Auguste Rousselin
French 1841 - 1916
Head Study
Oil on board, signed with initials and signed verso
Image size: 12 x 11 inches
This head study provides an unbelievably moving portrait of an androgynous sitter. Employing incredible technique, the artist has achieved the highly finished porcelain skin, thoughtful eyes and pink lips of the sitter with incredible softness.
The unfinished quality of the background make the composition of the work particularly satisfying to the modern eye. Loosely sketched dashes and brushy swoops outline the model's head. The mix of finished and more expressive elements reveals the artist's brilliant eye, technique and personality.
Artistically, Rousselin does not seem to be influenced by the friendships that he forged with the Impressionists but rather he has remained rather faithful to the academic technique of William Bouguereau, whose studio he also used to frequent.
This study is certainly comparable to the work by Bouguereau, specifically his graceful portraits of women. Bouguereau championed the traditional academic style and his methods were taught to him by a pupil of Ingres. Similar academic inspiration is apparent in this work, from the conscious posing of the subject to the evenly laid colours. Indeed, alike the work of Bouguereau this follows the same classical approach to composition, form and subject matter.
The Artist
Born in Paris in 1841, Rousselin grew up to be a French painter and art collector. From a young age he studied in the workshops of Charles Gleyre and Thomas Couture, here he met the young impressionist generation. His studio peers included Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Édouard Manet, with whom he forged strong bonds of friendship. It was at his invitation that his two friends Renoir and Sisley exhibited at the Salon of the Society of Friends of the Arts in Pau, a region where Rousselin had family ties.
Manet invited him to his family home in Boulogne-sur-Mer where he had him pose in the summer of 1868 for 'Le Déjeuner dans l'Atelie'. Rousselin can be seen in the background of the painting as the man with the cigar, wearing a grey hat...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
By Jose Puyet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 100x80 cm.
Frameless.
Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor José Padilla, a Sp...
Category
1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,418 Sale Price
33% Off
Portrait d'Homme Barbu German School oil on pannel
Located in Pasadena, CA
Pretty portrait representing a portrait of an old shepherd from the German school in Dusseldorf . Oil on pannel
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Romanticism Still Life Portrait Painting of a Headmaster with Studying Students
By Thomas Sully
Located in Houston, TX
Scene of a seated headmaster watching over a pair of studying students in the style of Romanticism. The work has been attributed to the renowned American portrait artist Thomas Sully...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Standing one. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative oil on canvas painting by Polish artist Katarzyna Szydlowska. Painting pictures nude female seen from the back. There is landscape in the backround. Painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Gemeentehuis Breukelen, The Dutch House, Brooklyn, Breukelen
Located in Cotignac, FR
Dutch Watercolour classical building portrait by Tineke Goedhart. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and resigned, dated and located on t...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Antique French Oil Painting Portrait of Country Lady in Bonnet with Basket Roses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Picking Roses
French School, late 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
By Jose Puyet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 100x79 cm.
Frameless.
Slight paint chips
Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor...
Category
1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,300 Sale Price
38% Off
Lost in Her Thoughts, 1890-1892, by Pinckney Marcius-Simons, French Romanticism
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Pinckney Marcius-Simons, (American, French, 1867-1909)
Signed: Marcius-Simons, (lower, right)
" Lost in Her Thoughts ", circa 1890-1892
Oil on mahogany panel bearing the stamp on verso of " H. Vieille e. Troisgros Sueei, 55 Rue de Laval...
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Muses of the Universe"
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Muses of the Universe" is a visual poem about the profound unity of the elements and feminine energy. The images are interconnected and unified in a Single Circle of Power: a self-s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in profile with fan oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 71x62 cm.
Biography of Gumersindo Vila
Full Name: Gumersindo Vila
Date of Birth: April 14, 1950
Place of Birth: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$827 Sale Price
30% Off
A portrait - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
A subtle miniature portrait of a girl in light delicate colours
KATARZYNA SZYDLOWSKA (born in 1969)
Katarzyna Szydlowska studied at the European Academy of Arts under prof. Jerzy Du...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female Portrait, Vibrant
Located in Warsaw, PL
KATARZYNA SZYDLOWSKA (born in 1969)
Katarzyna Szydlowska studied at the European Academy of Arts under prof. Jerzy Duda Gracz, Antoni Fa?at and Franciszek S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Femme au Chapeau Bleu, Large French Fauvist Figurative Oil on Canvas.
By Jean-Louis Dubuc
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large scale colourful figurative portrait of a fashionable lady in a blue hat by French artist Jean-Louis Dubuc. The painting is signed bottom right and titled to the rear cross stre...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
$2,009 Sale Price
50% Off
Figurative Woman Diver, Pool, French Art, Ambition n°26_Swan Scalabre
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Ambition n°26"
Oil on Wood
7.75 x 9.75 in. 11 x 13 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silen...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Portrait of a Old Man XIX Oil on canvas
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil painting on panel probably depicting an Orthodox priest of Russian origin.
Dated 1872. Signed but not legible signature
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
P Deltour (?), An artist and his models in the workshop, 1879, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
P Deltour (?) French school of the 19th century
The artist with his model and friend in his workshop
Oil on canvas
Signed "P Deltour" (?) and dated 1879 on the lower, an indistinct i...
Category
1870s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,191 Sale Price
20% Off
Figurative Portrait of Woman With Flame, Incandescente New n°1_Swan Scalabre
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Incandescente New n°1"
Oil on Wood
13.25 x 11.25 in.
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed ...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$2,640 Sale Price
20% Off
Peasant Girl And Little Lady With Toys. Europe, Romantic Era, Mid-19th Century
Located in Firenze, IT
Peasant Girl And Little Lady With Toys. Europe, Romantic Era, Mid-19th Century
This mid-19th century painting, done in oil on canvas, belongs to the Romantic era. It portrays a t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$756 Sale Price
20% Off
Figurative Woman Swimmer, Pool, French Art, Ambition n°28_Swan Scalabre
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Ambition n°28"
Oil on Wood
9.75 x 7.75 in. 13 x 11 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent ...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
The Sunday Stroll
Located in Brooklyn, NY
THE SUNDAY STROLL - ADAPTED TO TODAY'S TIMES
Carl Spitzweg, the painter of "The Sunday stroll," was a German genre painter representing the Biedermeier ...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Incandescente n°21_Swan Scalabre, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative/Portrait
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Incandescente n°21"
Oil on Wood
10 x 8 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on ...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$2,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Romantic Portraits, Herman Richir, Brussels 1866 – 1942, Belgian Painter
Located in Knokke, BE
Romantic Portraits
Richir Herman
Brussels 1866 – 1942
Belgian Painter
Signature: Attributed to Richir Herman
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image size 67,50 x 62,50 cm, frame size 69,50 x 64,50 cm
Biography: Richir Herman Jean Joseph was born in Ixelles (Brussels), on November 4, 1866. He was a Belgian painter of portraits, still lifes, genre paintings, nudes and landscapes. He made decorative paintings to fit into private homes.
Richir mainly painted portraits. His clients usually belonged to the higher circles. He portrayed amongst others King Albert and Queen Elisabeth, Cardinal Mercier and Countess d’Oultremont. Less known are the landscape paintings he made Limburg and Kempen, where he regularly stayed with befriended artist Emile Van Doren (1865 – 1949).
Herman Richir first studied at the Sint-Joost-ten-Node Academy with Gustave Biot and Charles Hermans, continued his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (1884-1889) with the master teacher and artist Jean-Francois Portaels (1818 – 1895). In 1886, during his studies, he won second Prize of Rome for Painting.
Richir lived in Schaarbeek. In 1900 he became a teacher of drawing and in 1905 first teacher of painting after nature at the Brussels Academy. He was director there several times 1906-1907, 1910, 1911, 1915-1919, 1925-1927. He was retired in 1927.
His pupils included Albert Alleman (1892 – 1933), Éliane de Meuse (1899 – 1993), Paul Hagemans (1884 – 1959), Maurice Mareels (1893 – 1976), Guy Onkelinx (1879 – 1935), Georges Rogy (1897 – 1981), José Storie (1899 – 1961), Charles Swyncop (1895 – 1970), Maurice Schelck...
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20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-portrait in Indonesian Landscape
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Abraham Johannes Romswinckel (1810-1856)
Self-portrait in Indonesian landscape
Inscribed Abr. Joh. Romswinckel, geb. Batavia 17 Oct. 1810, overl...
Category
1820s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Walking Along the Beach, Bauer, German School, 19th Century, Signed P. Bauer
Located in Knokke, BE
Walking Along the Beach
German School
19th Century
Signature: Signed bottom right P. Bauer
Dimensions: Image size 31 x 24 cm, frame size 42 x 32 cm
Medium: Aquarelle
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Girl in Elegant Dress oil painting by Ferdinand Wagner II
Located in Hudson, NY
Canvas measures 21.25" x 19.5" and the frame measures 30.5" x 25.5" x 3"
Ferdinand Wagner II studied art initially with his father, a vocational art teacher. Later he attended the Munich Academy of Arts working closely with Karl von Piloty. Much of Wagner's career focused on commissions as a decorative painter. He did ceiling frescos...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Female Swimmer in Oil on Wood Shadow Box, Ambition n°24_Swan Scalabre
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Ambition n°24"
Oil on Wood
13.25 x 11.25 in.
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$2,640 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Man and Woman
Located in Austin, TX
Painting by Peter Plonkin (b. 1879)
32 x 46 inches
Oil on Canvas
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sleeping Beauty", George Tsui, Original Oil on Canvas, 47x19 in., Figurative
By George Tsui
Located in Dallas, TX
George Tsui's imagination is filled with Chinese themes. The idea of creating his own brand of classic romanticism, unrestrained by conventional reality, w...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Dipinto figurativo impressionista fiorentino ritratto femminile del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il dipinto è firmato e datato in alto a destra MGordigiani 78 e le misure senza cornice sono 58 x 73 cm
Raffigura una fanciulla con lo sguardo incantato, la bocca socchiusa e la test...
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1870s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
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1960s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Portrait of a Girl holding a Posy
Located in Taunton, GB
Portrait of a Girl holding a Posy.
Oil on Panel
17 1/2 x 13 inches
44.4 x 33 cm
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jacques d'Agar was a French portrait painter born i...
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17th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blond Pin up with Perfect Smile Tennis Racket - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Julia (Elsie Julia Miller) Schleicher (Canadian/American, 1916-1988)
she was an important female illustrator
Woman Tennis Player
Pastel and gouache on boa...
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1940s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Portraits of Two Ladies, Pair of Portraits, Young Woman, Demarteau after Vincent
By Gilles Demarteau
Located in Greven, DE
Bust portrait of two young girls. Colour engraving in crayon manner after François-André Vincent. each 50.8 x 37.4 cm. Circa 1788, Leymarie 662, IFF 6, 74.
This sheet is a typical ex...
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18th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Ballet dancer
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Beautiful drawing by Jean-Baptiste Valadie, hand-signed, museum frame
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint, Lithograph
Lady Red Rose female half length profile portrait warm soft soothing color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is oil paint on linen canvas mounted on wood framed in a reddish brown color frame
Signed on reverse
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
1950s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Gold & Despair
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Gold & Despair is my adaptation of Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece "The Woman In Gold", also known as The Mona Lisa of Austria. Having admired the symbolic art of Klimt since my working days as a fine art restorer at Vienna’s prestigious Conservation Institute (Bundesdenkmalamt) in the 1980’s, I conceived the idea to recreate the jewel of his gilded period with an interpretive lens on the looming darkness of the Holocaust and World War II.
As a native of Austria, Salzburg, I have developed an appreciation for Klimt’s art, and Art Nouveau in general. For the last thirty years, I have lived in New York City and worked as a fine art restorer, conservator, and painter as well as in the healing arts.
Klimt had executed The Woman in Gold in the span of four years (1903-1907). My own creative process during 2014-2017, reflects my diligent care and thoroughness in rendering the original painting. In 2014, I started with the preparation of the canvas using Klimt’s original size of 54 x 54 inches (167 x 167 cm). For gesso, I used the traditional method of rabbit skin glue and chalk. For the painting, I used oil paints and genuine 23.5 karat gold in various shades, as well as silver leaves, to magnify the brilliant sheen of Klimt’s gold...
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2010s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Price Upon Request
Le Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)
Located in Austin, TX
"Le Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)" by French Romantic painter Lazare Meyer (1847-1935)
51.5 x 31.5 in. - Oil Paint on Canvas
Framed
A luminous, two figure composition depicting a ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Romantic portrait paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Romantic portrait paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Katarzyna Szydlowska, Jose Puyet , Michele Gordigiani, and Joe Bowler. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Romantic portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 4.5 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $435 and tops out at $95,000, while the average work sells for $3,226.
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