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
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
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
Skull and Butterflies - Oil Painting Colors Red Black Brown Beige Grey White
By Lyubena Fox
Located in Sofia, BG
"Skull and butterflies "
Oil on canvas
(Painting with restored frame 19th century 83x66 cm.)
Comes with symbolism plaque/label*
Through philosophy the mind flourishes
The human mind (portrayed by the skull) flourishes and thrives (depicted by the butterflies, used as a positive symbol and symbolize resurrection) through philosophy and understanding oneself (books represent knowledge). Just like the caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies, able to grasp more of the world, the mind has the ability to transform and gain a greater comprehension.
Painted entirely from life
The Painting’s Qualities
Lyubena Fox...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Óleo sobre tela - Retrato de dama con tocado floral
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada
Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura
El estado de la pintura se puede ver, está bastante craquelada y está reentelada
Medidas de la obra: 59 x 45 cm.
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with windmill
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KUWASSEG Charles Euphrasie (1838-1904)
Landscape with Windmill
Oil on canvas signed low right
New Golden frame
Dim canvas : 75 X 108 cm
Dim frame : 104 X 140 cm
KUWASSEG Charles Euphrasie (1838-1904)
French Painter 19th Century born on September 29, 1838 in Draveil (Essonne).
Died in October 1904 in Paris
Painter, Watercolor
Lively landscapes, seascapes, panoramas
Charles Kuwasseg...
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley" George Henry Smillie, West, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
George Henry Smillie
Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley, 1871
Signed and inscribed board verso "Cathedral Rocks-Morning-Yo-semite Valley Aug. 71 Geo. H. Smillie", also inscribed "Yo-se...
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
“Cows at a Stream Sunset”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of cattle watering at sunset by the well known American artist, George A. Hayes. Signed by the artist lower left “G.A. Hays”. Circa 1885. Condition ...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Chickens in the Farmyard in pair
By Claude Guilleminet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GUILLEMINET Claude (1821-1860)
Chickens in the Farmyard
Oils on wood panels in pair signed low
New golden frames
Dim wood panel (each) : 27 X 20 cm
Dim frame (each) : 47 X 40 cm
GU...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Across the River by Sir David Murray
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir David Murray, R.A., H.R.S.A., R.S.W., R.I.
1849-1933 • Scottish
Across the River
Signed and dated D. Murray 1907 (lower left)
Signed and inscribed “Across the River/by David M...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
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
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
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
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17' century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramat...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Lady and Cupid in The Park
By Hans Zatzka
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Hans Zatzka (8 March 1859 – 17 December 1945
Young Lady With Cupid in The Park
Oil on canvas circa 1880 signed low with pseudonym C.BRIAND
Old Frame gilded with leaves
Size canvas : ...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lucrèce Borgia
Located in Paris, FR
Antoine Georges Rochegrosse
1859-1938
Lucrèce Borgia, circa 1880
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Canvas: 36 5/8" high x 29 1/8" wide
Frame: 50 3/8" high x 40 1/8" wide
Georges...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Tigers of Bengal
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Ferdinand SCHEBEK (1875 - 1949)
Oil on canvas signed low left -
Tigers of Bengal -
Old coppery frame -
Dim canvas : 60 X 81 cm -
Dim Frame : 95 X ...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting 19th Century Fox Hunting Scene With Characters Horses and Dogs
By Joseph August Knip
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KNIP August (1819 - 1859)
Starting Fox Hunting day in Baden-Baden
Oil on canvas signed low right dated 1837
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 81 X 118 cm
Dim frame :...
Category
1830s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Horse Sketch 1" study of an Alfred Munnings painting, brown and earth tones
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Horse Sketch 1" is Amy Florence's study of an Alfred Munnings painting, one of her favorite artists.
Artist Bio
Amy Florence is a London born artist working out of her studio in F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board
“Sailboat at Dock”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil paint on wood panel painting by the well known American artist, George Thompson Hobbs. Signed lower left and dated 1899. Condition is good. The painting is housed in i...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Little Ballerina
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Alphonse PELLET (1853-1926)
The Little Ballerina
Oil on wood panel signed low right
Old frame regilded with leaves
Size panel : 30 X 43 cm - Size frame : 40 X 55 cm
Alphonse PELLET...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17' century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramatic subje...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Musician
Located in New Orleans, LA
Alfred Weber
1859-1922 I Swiss
The Musician
Signed “Alfred Weber” (lower left)
Oil on panel
This work by Swiss ecclesiastical genre painter Alfred Weber, best known for his humorous and meticulously detailed paintings, features a cardinal enjoying his leisure time. Weber's talent for rendering opulent interiors and his keen sense of comic narrative are evident in this painting. The cardinal, looking blissfully content, sits in his lavish living space playing the violin, accompanied by a flutist.
Alfred Charles Weber...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A. Costa Woman original Figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD.
He was f...
Category
1960s Academic Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
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
Antoni Costa Woman. original figurative Academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD.
He was ...
Category
1960s Academic Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
"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
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
"In the Canadian Rockies" 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The art is signed AB..6. lower right corner
Albert Bierstadt, a luminary of 19th-century American landscape painting, was born on January 7, 1830, in Solingen, Prussia (now Germany)...
Category
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
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
Canvas, Oil
Pretending (The Great Performance)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1890' lower right
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Horse Sketch 2" study of an Alfred Munnings painting, brown and earth tones
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Horse Sketch 2" is an oil painting by Amy Florence, a study of an Alfred Munnings painting, an artist she takes inspiration from. A horse is standing against a pale green ground, c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Joli Moi de Mai
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
Canvas, Oil
Views of the Nile Valley in pair - Orientalist Paintings
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Léon BRARD (1830-1902)
Views of The Nile Valley in pair
Orientalist paintings
Oils on wood signed low right
New golden Frames
Dim wood (each) : 22 X 41 cm
Dim canvas (each) : 40 X 60...
Category
1880s 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
The Fair Student
By Henry Wyatt
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1835' center right
Category
1830s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Stream
By Philip Hermogenes Calderon R.A.
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1864' lower left
Category
1860s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Pretending (Lunch from the Café)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1910' lower right
Category
1910s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gentry People in The Park in 18th century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912)
"Genre scene in 18th century"
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old original frame
Dim canvas : 72 X 100 cm
Dim frame : 103 X 127 cm
LEVIGNE Théodore (1848...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sitting Pretty (Pomeranian Pups)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1901' lower left
Category
Early 1900s 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
Oil, Canvas
Bunch of Roses with Chinese Vase
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MONNOT Maurice Louis (1869-1937)
Bunch of Roses with Chinese Vase
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 61 X 50 cm
Dim Frame : 90 X 80 cm
MONNOT Maurice Louis (1869-1937)
French painter 19th – 20th century
Born the 22th of October 1869 in Paris. Dead in 1937
Painter of interior and still lives. He was the pupil of Joseph Bail...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - It's a Good Weather ?
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s 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
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - De ma Fenêtre
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
Canvas, Oil
“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
Still Life composition
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jacques DELANOY (1820-1890)
Still Life Fruits and vegetables
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1890 low left
Old frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 41 X 34 cm Dim frame : 53 X 44 ...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sweet Roses
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and titled lower left
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Declaration Of Love
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
COLIN François (1798-1864)
The Declaration of love
Oil on canves signed low left
Old frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 41 X 57 - Dim frame : 56 X 71 cm
COLIN François (1798-1...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Flowers" by Baldo Guberti - Oil on Masonite - 37.5 x 46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (43 x 56.5 x 3.5 cm)
Baldo Guberti was an Italian painter, engraver, and illustrator born in Ravenna in 1907 and died in Camaiore in 1974. His work is known ...
Category
1940s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Basket of pansies Flowers - painting 19th century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BIVA Paul (1851 - 1900)
Basket of Pansies
Oil on canvas signed low left
Framed by Gault (Paris)
Dim canvas : 60 X 80 cm
Dim frame : 80 X 100 cm
BIVA Paul (1851 - 1900)
French Pain...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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