Romantic 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
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 ...
Category
1960s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Five Wall Decoration 'En Grisaille' by Dufour, Paris, France, 19th Century
Located in Rome, IT
Five papiers peints 'En Grisaille' from the psyche´ series manufactured by Dufour, Paris, after designs by Merry-Joseph Blondel and Louis Lafitte.
-'Psyche´ returning from hades.'
-'...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Dark Fire
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Paperback Cover
Cover of "Dark Fire," Harlequin Books
Signed Lower Right
Man and Woman holding each other
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Evening prayers by fishermen under the high coast of Celebes
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Jacob Eduard Van Heemskerck Van Beest (1828-1894)
“Avondgebed; Maleidische tripang visschers onder de hoge kust van Celebes” (Ev...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Painting of Women Crossing Stream
Located in San Antonio, TX
Romantic style painting of figures crossing a stream in a coastal European landscape. The painting dates to the 19th century and is presumed to...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large oil from 1902 - German school - A portrait of Sisterly love
Located in Antwerp, BE
Sweet and large oil painting "Sisterly love" signed and dated 1902 by August Algermissen
The present painting depicts two sisters seated in an interior, the youngest is gleefully lo...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Moonlight over the Lake, 1912, By Swedish Artist Wilhelm Dahlbom
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present this exquisite piece by Swedish artist Wilhelm Dahlbom, entitled "Moonlight, Idö, 1912". This work captures the serene reflection of moonlight on water, the...
Category
1910s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French romantic painting Oil on paper TANCARVILLE castle Normandy 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Victor LEFRANC
Paris, 1812 - ?
Oil on paper
33 x 42 cm (44 x 52 cm with frame)
Inscription on the verso 'Tancarville / 1839" and stamp from the Georges Lhoste collection
Painter of ...
Category
1830s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting oval KUWASSEG Marine beach boats french romantic Normandy 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles Euphrasie KUWASSEG
Draveil (Essonne), 1833 – Paris, 1904
Oil on wooden panel Signed and dated lower right “C. Kuwasseg fils / July 57”
36 x 28 cm (42 x 36 cm with the frame)...
Category
1850s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1870s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Romantic French Painter - 19th century figure painting - Gallant interior
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (19th century) - The arrival of the letter from the suitor.
35.5 x 29 cm without frame, 52.5 x 46.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a contemporary ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horse British painter - 19th century figure painting - Hunting knight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (19th century) - Rider and hunting greyhounds.
28 x 22 cm without frame, 40 x 33 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition r...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Flowering. 2015, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Flowering. 2015, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
GUDIN Henriette Marine boats sea french romantic small panel 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Henriette GUDIN
Paris, 1825 - Paris, 1892
Oil on wood 14 x 21 cm (40 x 47 cm with the frame)
Signed lower left "H. Gudin"
Very beautiful 19th century frame decorated with friezes, in...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with birch trees. 2010, canvas, oil, 79x137 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape with birch trees. 2010, canvas, oil, 79x137 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seagulls in the snow. 1994. Canvas, oil, 70x112 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Seagulls in the snow. 1994. Canvas, oil, 70x112 cm
Category
1990s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th century cat portrait painting - "Le Chat " - Ragamuffin - Maine coon
Located in Antwerp, BE
Adorable 19th century cat painting "Le Chat" painted by Alexandre Clarys
This mesmerising cat gazes intently at the viewer, whilst the artist has captured his fluffy fur and sparkl...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 19th century Hunting scene - Setter dogs with their prey - Hunt
Located in Antwerp, BE
Huge 19th century Hunting scene oil painting "Two setters with their trophy in a landscape" by the well-known Belgian animal painter Henry Schouten
Henry Schouten was born in Indone...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charlotte Shore Daughter of 1st Lord Teignmouth. Portrait in India 1792 to 1795.
By Arthur William Devis
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Arthur William Devis.
English ( b.1762 - d.1822 ).
Portrait of Charlotte Shore, Daughter of the 1st Lord Teignmouth 1790 - 1864.
Oil on Canvas.
Oval Image size 26.2 inches x 20.5 in...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
HUMMINGBIRDS IN THE MOONLIGHT, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Welcome to my Gallery and thanks for your visit! If you are in need of some artwork that will be a conversation starter, look no further. This dynamic abstract work of art and it...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Une Affection Tacite - Large 19th Century Oil Painting of Young Lovers
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Une Affection Tacite’ by Adèle Kindt (1804-1893).
The painting – which depicts a young woman and her ardent admirer – is signed by the artist and dated 1862.
Born into a family o...
Category
1860s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique portrait of a woman, French romantic oil painting, female portrait
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique portrait of a young woman. Romantic 1800's oil painting on canvas board. This is an attractive, traditional 19th Century French oil painting in its original frame.
MORE ABO...
Category
1840s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boats at sunset, effect of light
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas Edward GABE
1814-1865
Boats at sunset, effect of light
Painting, oil on wood
Signed and dated 1850
Painting: 61 x 41 cm (24 x 16.1 inches)
Beautiful modern frame: 73 x 53 cm ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1980s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Head Portraits of a Young Girl
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hippolyte Roques (active 1838-1864)
Three Head Portraits of a Young Girl
Oil on grey wove paper, c. 1850
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Shepherd Galle...
Category
1850s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1950s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl With a Pearl Earring
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite portrait by Gunnar Hallström, titled "Portrait of a Girl with a Pearl Earring" invites viewers into a moment of quiet introspection. Painted in the 1920s, the subject ...
Category
1920s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mother and Children”, Dutch interior family scene, oil on canvas, circa 1930
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This is an original unique oil painting by the artist. Bernard Pothast was born on 30th November, 1882 in Hal, Belgium. He studied painting at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam between ...
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Easter Bonnet - Romantic Portrait Oil Painting by Gustave Jean Jacquet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel portrait circa 1890 by French Romantic painter Gustave Jean Jacquet. The work depicts a young redheaded woman wearing a red velvet jacket lined with white fur. On her head she is wearing an Easter bonnet trimmed with leaves.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 14"x11.5"
Unframed: 10"x7.5"
Provenance:
Baron Fine Art...
Category
1890s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Adrien Moreau, Woman with Picked Flowers in a Basket Resting by the Sea
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful watercolor by Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) showing a woman with freshly picked flowers in a basket resting in the grass by the sea. The colors are strong and it is mounted i...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique Scottish Oil on Canvas Painting Tantallon Castle Ruin East Lothian 1850
By Horatio McCulloch
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & important Scottish oil on canvas painting; a landscape of Tantallon Castle in East Lothian, by Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867) R.S.A. The painting circa 1850.
This very hands...
Category
1850s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boat off the coast of Fécamp (Normandy)
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles-Louis VERBOECKHOVEN (attributed to)
Warneton, 1802 - Brussels, 1889
Boat off the coast of Fécamp (Normandy)
Painting, oil on cardboard
Unsigned
Painting: 39 x 29 cm
Beautiful...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Memory of Santorini, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
from the series “Houses on the waterâ€
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anna's Aroma, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on panel canvas :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: No :: :: Canvas ...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Sistine moodâ€
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Landscape with Figures
Located in New Orleans, LA
Early 20th Century Landscape with Figures attributed to Continental School
framed: 53.7h x 42.5w inches
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 19th century Victorian oil landscape - Summer in the Highlands
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century English countryside landscape "Summer in the Highlands"
This peaceful painting depicts an Highlands countryside scenery during a sunny summerday. In the foreground two ...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mother and Daughters”, Dutch Interior scene, Romantic style, oil on canvas
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Bernard Pothast (1882-1966)
Although born in Belgium in 1882, Bernard Pothast was the...
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Italian Brigands in the Roman Countryside fighting with Papal Dragoons.
Located in Firenze, IT
Brigands in the Roman countryside fighting with papal dragoons.
19th century.
Characteristic technique among foreign and German traveling painters: oil on metal plate, probably zin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a gentleman, 19th century portrait of a man, antique portrait man
Located in AIGNAN, FR
A classic romantic portrait of a man on stretched canvas in a rectangular frame with an oval setting. This painting was found in France but is likely to be of German origin. A gent...
Category
1840s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marine painting sea shore smugglers boat scotttish 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
William ANDERSON (1757- 1837) Oil on wooden panel 25.5 x 34.5 cm (40x50cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left "W. Anderson / 1817" Collector's stamp on the back
Scottish painte...
Category
1810s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Miniature Pastoral Landscape 19th century Romanticism Oil Painting on Wood
Located in Stockholm, SE
Pastoral Landscape with distant river valley in haze, flock, cattle watering and figures in lightly wooded foreground - Idyllic scene painted in oils by unknown professional mid-19th...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Rare Southern Painting of the French Broad River, North Carolina ca 1890
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is an unsigned, but rare, late 19th century oil on canvas of a view of the French Broad River in North Carolina. It is amongst the world’s oldest rivers. The scene depicted is m...
Category
1880s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Unidentified Flying Object, original oil on board, Romantic style, 20thC
By Meta Plückebaum
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This one of a pair of fun and vibrant paintings of precious kittens distracted by a bumble bee are unique and original oil-on-canvas paintings by the German artist and illustrator, Meta Plückebaum...
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
ADAM Marine tempest rescue boats romantic french painting ISABEY 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Hippolyte Benjamin ADAM
Paris, 1808 – 1853
Oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm (61 x 80 cm with frame)
Signed lower left “h. Adam"
19th century black wooden frame
Hippolyte Adam is a painter o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th-Century Danish School, Idyllic Landscape With Farm, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming late 19th-century Danish oil painting depicts a picturesque rural view with a farm, wandering shepherd and trees.
Akin to a classical vision of pastoral bliss, this ma...
Category
1880s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with flock of sheep, Romantic oil panting on canvas, Belgium, 1890
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Jef Louis van Leemputten (1867-1948)
Landscape with flock of sheep
Signed lower right J. L. van Leemputten and dated 1890
Oil on canvas
Dimensions excl. frame: 39 x 48 cm.
Dimensions...
Category
1890s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Oil Painting of Washington’s Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pa ca 1890’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
This unsigned late 19th century painting portrays the property used by George Washington as his headquarters during the American Revolution. Known as the Isaac Potts House, it was bu...
Category
1890s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nostalgy. 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 female in nude. She is sitting on the beach, there is sea and cliff behind her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Melancholy... 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 two females in nude- one is covering herself and the other one is holdind bouq...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Une Affection Tacite - 19th Century Romantic Oil Painting Girl & Loving Admirer
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Une Affection Tacite’ by Adèle Kindt (1804-1893).
The painting – which depicts a young woman and her ardent admirer – is signed by the artist and dated 1862.
Born into a family o...
Category
1860s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
THOMASSIN Attributed Austrian landscapes romantic pair painting Brazil 19th
By Desiré Thomassin
Located in PARIS, FR
Désiré THOMASSIN (Attributed to)
Vienna, 1858 – Munich, 1933
Oil on panel
32 x 50 cm (42 x 60 cm with frame)
Inscription on the back “Thomassin / Braz...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil
Spaniels Chasing Pheasant
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Charming oil painting on canvas by renowned genre artist George Armfield (1808-1893), of two dogs chasing a pheasant. The expression of sheer dog happiness in the chase. and the phe...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
La Princesse Bleue
Located in Paris, FR
Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse
1859-1938 French
La Princesse Bleue
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Canvas: 27 1/8" high x 32 1/8" wide
Frame : 37 3/8" high x 41 3/4" wide
Exposed...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Twilight Landscape with Windmill and Church, 1891
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Twilight Landscape with Windmill and Church" is a captivating work by Swedish artist Albert Larsson, painted in 1891 when Larsson was 22 years old. The painting captures a landscape...
Category
1890s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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