Academic Paintings
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
1962 oil painting on board still life with sculpture and wine by George Weissbor
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
George Weissbort (Belgian / British, 1928 – 2013)
A glass of wine in a classical study
Signed ‘G Weissbort 62’ (lower right)
Oil on board
13 x 21 in. (33 x 53.4 cm.)
George Weissbort painted in a figurative classical style going against the grain of the modern abstract living and painting in the Wye...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Georges-Marie-Julien Girardo (French 1856-1914) Oil on Canvas "A Wedding Party"
Located in LA, CA
Georges-Marie-Julien Girardot (French, b. Besançon 1856 - d. Paris, 1914) "Avant le mariage" (Before the Wedding) A Palatial and Impressive French 19th Century Oil on Canvas depictin...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape of Mountains
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape of Mountains
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 92 X 112 cm
MOSNY Henry (...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the Bazaar I
Located in New York, NY
In the Bazaar I, 1834-1855, by Theodore Frere (1814-1888)
Oil on wood
7 x 5 inches unframed (17.78 x 12.7 cm)
10 ⅝ x 9 inches framed (26.9875 x 22.86 cm)
Signed on lower right
Descr...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venice with characters
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
COUSIN Charles (1807-1887)
Venice With Characters
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 65 X 54 cm
Dim frame : 91 X 80 cm
COUSIN Charles (1807-1887)
French painter 19th century
Portraits, Landscapes, Waterscapes
He was a frequent of the Leon Bonnat...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charming 19th Century Oil on Canvas Triptych of Cherubs 'An Allegory to Spring'
Located in LA, CA
Ferdinand Wagner II (German, 1847-1927) A very fine and charming triptych group of three oil on canvas laid on board titled "An Allegory to Spring" each panel depicting different pla...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
A.Bachman (1863-1956), painting view of Venice
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BACHMANN Alfred Félix August (1863-1956)
Lively view of Venice
Oil on wood panel signed low left
Old frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim wood : 24 X 34 cm
Dim frame : 38 X 48 cm
BA...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Crossing", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Crossing" is an oil painting that depicts an elderly man crossing the high water of a river with a young child on...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cardinal with Elegant Company by Angelo Zoffoli
Located in New Orleans, LA
Angelo Zoffoli
1860-1910 Italian
Cardinal with Elegant Company
Signed "A. Zoffoli Roma" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A sumptuously dressed cardinal enjoys the company of a fabulou...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venice Panoramic View
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Angelo PISANI (1885-1950)
Panoramic View from Venice
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 51 X 100 cm
Dim frame : 70 X 120 cm
Category
1920s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Omaha
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
“The Old Homestead”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas laid down to old fiberboard by the well known American artist, Edward Burrill Jr. The painting shows two figures standing in front of an old double chimney ho...
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Love Letter
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1884' lower right
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady with Hat and Fan - Marie-Antoinette Style in 1783
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Félix-Henri Giacomotti (1828-1909)
Portrait of a Lady - Marie-Antoinette fashion in 1783.
Signed low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 92,5 X 73,5 cm
Dim Oval view : 86 ...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life Flowers and Butterfly - Painting 19th century
By Elisa-Antoinette Georget
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Elisa- Antoinette GEORGET (1842-1914)
Flowers and Butterfly
Oil on canvas signed low left
Golden wooden frame stick (new)
Dim canvas : 43 X 72 cm
Dim Frame : 65 X 94 cm
Elisa- Antoi...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Children playing in the park, oil on canvas signed Joseph Dierickx dated 1903
By Joseph Dierickx
Located in Paris, FR
A "genre" painting representing a mother supervising her two small daughters at the Park.
Oil on canvas signed bottom right Joseph Dierickx and dated 1903.
Dierickx Joseph (1865-19...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Peonies in a Blue Vase
Located in Mc Lean, VA
One of three still-life paintings by the French flower painter Germain-Theodore Ribot.
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Large and Impressive Oil on Canvas "La Place Sainte Gudule, Brussels"
Located in LA, CA
Franz (Bernard) Gailliard (Belgian, 1861-1932) "La Place Sainte Gudule a` Bruxelles Apre`s Le Carnaval" A fine and large oil on canvas depicting a street scene in late 19th century B...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Dorothy Thompson (The Wild Rose) - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a beautiful blue-eyed girl in a pink dress holding flowers in her hand. It's based on Renaissance portraits where the subject is pushed to the foreground and i...
Category
1920s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Charge 19th-century Realism Antique Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed and dated 1894
Description:
Eugene Alexis Girardet (1853-1907) was a prominent Swiss painter known for his remarkable attention to detail and his ability to capture vivid and dynamic scenes. Born in Paris, France, Girardet came from a family of artists and received early artistic training from his father, Paul Girardet, and his uncle, Jules Girardet, both respected engravers. He later studied at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he honed his skills and developed a deep appreciation for historical and orientalist subjects.
He was interred at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery. In addition to several museums in France, his works may be seen at the Dahesh Museum of Art and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers, as well as at museums in Switzerland and New York City.
Girardet’s artwork often depicted historical and exotic scenes, particularly focusing on Middle Eastern and North African themes. His meticulous attention to detail and his ability to convey a sense of movement and drama made his works highly sought after. One of his most renowned paintings, “The Charge,” exemplifies his exceptional talent and his ability to create a captivating and immersive experience for viewers.
In “The Charge,” Girardet presents an army of Arab camel...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A French 19th-20th Century Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand Player Smoking Pipe"
Located in LA, CA
Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Fine and Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand", depicting a joyous seated man, smoking a pipe, showing his Poker hand of cards. Within a carve...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Mephistopheles and the Faust" Mid 19th c, Antique Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Alfred Jacomin
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is dated and signed on the bottom left side.
Description:
Alfred Jacomin was a landscape and genre painter. He was a student of his father, Jean-Marie Jacomin, the Swiss...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Original French Anatomical Study of Horse's Hoof
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Anatomical Study of Horse's Hoof
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Watercolor on card
Size: 19.75 (Height) x 12.5 (Width)
Signed: No
Condition: ...
Category
20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Lion
Located in Paris, FR
MONTBARD
(Active XIX-XXth c.)
"The Lion"
Oil on canvas
Painting: 78 x 62 cm
Framed: 93 x 78 cm
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chrysanthemums Blooming on a Terrace
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Large oil painting of chrysanthemums by one of the most well-known 19th-century French flower painters.
Signed and dated lower right
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Miss Carolyn Edmunson
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
The art world today does not value traditional academic skills in portrait painting. If it did, this portrait would replace the childlike student-level art that is now achieving two...
Category
1930s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil on Canvas "A Young Man Napoleonic Bicorne Hat".
Located in LA, CA
Napoleone Luigi Grady (Italian, 1860-1949) A Very Fine Oil on Canvas "A Young Man Bicorne Hat". The beautifully executed artwork depicting a posing young boy in full period celebrato...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large & Impressive French 19th Century Oil on Canvas "The Water Carrier Lady"
By Jules Salles-Wagner
Located in LA, CA
Jules Salles-Wagner (French, 1814-1898) A Large and Impressive French, 19th century oil on canvas "The Water Carrier Lady" depicting a standing and posing young peasant girl holding ...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait at the Painter's workshop
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Francesco Brunery (1849–1926)
Portrait at the Artist's Workshop
Oil on wood panel
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim panel : 30 X 24 cm
Dim frame : 54 X 46 cm
Francesco Brunery (1849...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Joseph and Potiphar
By Jacques-Louis David
Located in Tricase, IT
Circle of Jacques-Louis David
Joseph and Potiphar
88x72 cm oil on canvas.
The story tells of Joseph's duties in Egypt. Sold as a slave to Putiphar, chief of the king of Egypt's guar...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Pompeiian Love Song" 19th Century Realism Antique Oil on Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance:
Sold: Jackson's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Cedar Falls, Iowa, December 8, 2009, Lot 4
A Pompeiian Love Song" by Antonio Rivas (Spanish, 1845-1911) transports viewers back ...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of an actor, ca 1880 dramatic oil young man staring into fire 19th Century
Located in Norwich, GB
A dramatic, one of a kind oil study. Certainly not your run of the mill 19th Century portait! Depicted is a young man, whose face is brightly lit from what is likely is an open fire....
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Meeting in the Woods" 19th Century Antique Oil Painting on Canvas
By George Henry
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed.
Description:
George Henry Boughton: A Master of Narrative and Natural Beauty
George Henry Boughton, a distinguished Anglo-American artist of the 19th centur...
Category
18th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The walk in Luxembourg Garden in Paris, also called "The Privileged"
By Antoine-Victor-Edmond-Madeleine Joinville
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
JOINVILLE Antoine Victor Edmond Madeleine (1801-1849)
From Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910)
The Walk in Luxembourg Garden" in Paris, also called "The Privileged"
Preserved at The Louvres M...
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roses Arrangement
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MITTON, Mathilde (1849 - 1919)
Roses Arrangement
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 90 X 113 cm
Dim frame : 116 X 140 cm
MITTON, Mathilde (1849 - 1919) French painter 19th-20th century - Lyon School
Born in Amplepuis in 1849 - Died in Lyon in 1919
She studied with André Perrachon (1828-1909), Charbonnier and Elie Laurent...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Fine Victorian Oil on Board Titled "A Lady Standing by a Sundial in the Park"
Located in LA, CA
Henry John Yeend King R.B.A, R.I., R.O.I. (British, 1855-1924) "A Victorian Lady Standing by a Sundial in the Park" Oil on panel. Signed lower right: Yeend King. "YK" Sticker en ver...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Boy Discovered in Barn - Gay Interest
Located in Miami, FL
Norman Mills Price depicts a handsome, nude blond boy with classical good looks. He is lying on his stomach in straw in the loft of a barn with his buttocks exposed. The artist captu...
Category
1910s Academic Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Pencil
Father and children in front of TV - Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
John Falter arranges figures and faces in a way that rival the old masters in their compositional perfection. And he makes it look easy. The expressions are captured so the emotions of the story come alive. This Golden Age of illustration artist depicts fathers and children watching...
Category
1950s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Brothel, Groovy Harem with Courtesan, Concubine, Paramour, Playboy Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
George Hirsch - He gets his inspiration from the prototype of neo-classic painting for this groovy 1970s brothel. This is a complex figural work with m...
Category
1970s Academic Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Beautiful Woman, The Coy Look - French Painting
Located in Miami, FL
If Vogue magazine existed in the late 19th century, this sitter could be on the cover. The depth of her feminine beauty and sweetness is mesmerizing. She looks at you. You look ...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Lady With Parasol in The garden
By Eugène Charles Picou
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
PICOU Eugène Charles (1831–1914) - "Young Girl with parasol" - Oil on canvas signed lower left - Old frame gilded with leaf - Canvas size: 61 X 50 cm...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Immaculate Conception oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Immaculate Conception
Author: Anonymous
Period: 20th Century
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25.6 x 21.3 in
Signature: "Karmel" (lower right)
Condition: Good
Descr...
Category
1980s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses and Peaches Arrangement
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CAUCHOIS Eugène Henri (1850-1911)
Roses and Peaches Arrangement
Oil on canvas signed low right
Framed by GAULT (Paris- Fbg St Honoré) - gold patina
Size canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Size fram...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Fine French 19th Century Oil on Board "A Standing Beauty with Spring Roses"
Located in LA, CA
A very fine French 19th century oil on board titled "A Standing Beauty with Spring Roses" by Charles Baptiste Schreiber (French, 1845-1903)...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
A Very Fine and Large Oil on Canvas "Ashura Rituals in Tangier, Morocco"
Located in LA, CA
Gordon B. Coutts (Scottish/American, 1868-1937) A very fine and large orientalist oil on canvas titled "Ashura Rituals, Tangier" (Arabic: عاشوراء ʻĀshūrā’ - Urdu: عاشورا - Persian:...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Beautiful Woman SALOMAN Gouache Danish Swedish painter 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Geskel SALOMAN
Tonder (Denmark) 1821 – Bastad (Sweden), 1902
Portrait of a woman with a book
Gouache on bone
8.8 x 8.5 cm (16.5 x 15.5 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right “G. Salom...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Very Fine Oil on Canvas Interior Palatial Scene Titled "Game for the Cardinal"
Located in LA, CA
Charles Edouard Edmond Delort (French, 1841-1895) oil on canvas "Game for the Cardinal", depicting a seated cardinal behind an ornate French Louis XV roll-top Bureau du Roi, after th...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pretending (Lunch from the Café)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1910' lower right
Category
1910s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Timeless and Classic Nude Girl at Pool - Academic Artist
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
This painting of a classic nude at a pool, "Hilda at the Pool," is both a portrait and a landscape. Leon Kroll rejected Modernism to triumph in the beauty of Classicism.
During his l...
Category
1930s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vue du château de Versailles depuis la place d’Armes
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR
Henry Tenré received a solid training in Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre’s studio at the Julian Academy from 1875 to 1885. Then he studied under the multi-medallist landscape pa...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The gift of flowers / - The depth of allegory -
Located in Berlin, DE
Conrad Kiesel (1846-1921), The gift of flowers. Oil on wood, 43 x 35 cm, 69 x 61 cm (frame), signed at lower left "Conrad Kiesel pxt [pinxit]", about 1900. In a magnificent gilt stuc...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Party To The Castle in 18th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A Party To The Castle in the 18th Century
Oil on canvas with a signature G.Weiss low left
Old frame regilded
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim frame : 66 X 58 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Royal Academy, London, 1880, no. 355 (as Summer)
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paintings 19th Century Flowers Still life
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GODCHAUX Emile (1860)
Big Compositions of Flowers in Pair
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frames gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas (each) : 90 X 129 cm
Dim frame (each) : 118 x 159 cm
Certificate of authenticity
GODCHAUX Emile (1860 - nc)
French School - XIXth century
Born in 1860
Painter of genre scenes, landscapes, waterscapes, marines, flowers, still lives. He sold his paintings on the public place, and sometimes in Lotteries. He is related to Alfred Godchaux...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Empress Theodora at the Coliseum
Located in Greenwich, CT
Benjamin Constant was an important figure in the Academic painting world in Paris and one of the leading French Romantic artists of the time. He is in all the museums of France and ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Man with a Straw Hat oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Portrait of a Young Man with a Straw Hat
Artist: Josep Cusachs i Cusachs (1851-1908)
Year: 1884
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions (unframed): 18.1 x 15 inches
Dimensions (fr...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Teaching him a New Trick
Located in Mc Lean, VA
19th Century Dutch
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Divertimento in the Music Salon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GUIDI Giuseppe (1881-1931)
Divertimento in the Music Salon
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 70 X 100 cm
Dim frame :...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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