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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
Girl In Red Dress Looks At The Sea - Graceful Illustrative Romantic Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Aleksandra (Ola) Pawlikowska born 1988, Warsaw, student of the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the years 2007-2012 she studied Art History at the Univer...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Proven...
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1980s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Edward Lear, Extensive Greek or Roman Landscape, Temple, Ruins, British Art
By Edward Lear
Located in Greven, DE
Most accounts of the artistic achievements of Edward Lear (1812–1888) take as their starting point the notion that he is better known as the writer of nonsense verse than as a topographical draughtsman and painter. His art is then considered largely in isolation, as the extraordinary creation of a fascinatingly eccentric Victorian. However, Lear's art is outstanding. Although Lear suffered from epilepsy, asthma, poor eyesight, and chronic depression, he was an inveterate traveler and an indefatigable sketcher, documenting a lifetime of journeys throughout the Mediterranean and India. During his two-month tour to Athens, mainland Greece and the island of Euboea, Edward Lear made almost 150 landscape drawings and kept a diary of his experiences and impressions. Many years later, Lear’s travelling companion, Charles Church...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Watercolor

Landscape with Cattle Grazing in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Landscape with Cattle Grazing in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beauti...
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1990s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The triumph of the goldsmith Claude Ballin (1615-1678), allegorical composition
Located in PARIS, FR
Edmond PETITEAU 19th century, French The triumph of the goldsmith Claude Ballin (1615-1678), allegorical composition Painting, oil on fine canvas glued to a wooden panel (mahogany), ...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

The Fair Skipper: boating on a mountain lake ca 1830 the Swiss Alps painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is an almost two hundred year old painting which is so irresistibly charming that it's crazy! You may have seen painted landscapes, portraits, genre scenes - but how many pretty...
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1830s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Romanticism Italian painter - 19th century figure painting - Girl portrait
Located in Varmo, IT
Romantic painter (early 19th century) - Girl with earrings. 49.5 x 40.5 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame. Condition report: Lined...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique painting, fisherman on the coast, oil on canvas.
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique painting, fisherman on the coast, oil on canvas. Frame damaged in places. Dimensions with frame.
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Runaways, or Swiss boy on Donkey. Attributed to Joseph Hornung.
Located in Firenze, IT
A couple of young boy and girl, dressed in ethnographic costumes, probably Savoyard, ride a donkey. The scene takes place in the middle of the countryside with mountains in the back...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Stainless Steel

Léon Herbo, 1850 – 1907, Belgian, 'Oriental Woman with Fruits and Flowers'
Located in Bruges, BE
Léon Herbo Templeuve 1850 – 1907 Ixelles Belgian Painter 'Oriental Woman with Fruits and Flowers' Signature: Signed lower left Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 75,50 x 9...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Venus with Putti Oil on Canvas with Gilt-wood Frame
Located in Rome, IT
French 19' century painting oil on canvas . Young Venus nude figure surrounded by delicious playing putti . Finely carved and gilt-wood frame of the same period . Measurements w...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Harry Keay, Dorothea’s Bonnet, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-20th-century oil painting by British artist Harry Keay (1914-1994) depicts a still life with a book, bonnet, teacup and sewing paraphernalia. It was shown at the Royal Socie...
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1950s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The cardinal's pet - Victor Marais-Milton (1872-1948)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel Signed lower right: “Marais-Milton” Dimensions: 63 x 55 cm Victor Marais -Milton was a French artist, born in 1872 in Puteaux. Early in his career he lived in Paris ...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Ca. 1820 Portrait of a Woman with Kashmir shawl.
Located in Firenze, IT
Ca. 1820 Portrait of a Woman. Léon Cogniet (1794-1880, Paris), attributed. French school of 19th century. Tecnicque: oils on canvas. Dimensions: 70cm x 61cm 20th century wooden...
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1820s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

A view of a street in San Remo - Jacques Carabain (1834 - 1933)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right: "J. Carabin, 1886" Also with a label on the back. In Jacques Carabain's painting, the Concattedrale di San Siro emerges as a timeless beacon amidst the historic tapestry of San Remo's Via Palma van La Pigna. The canvas unveils a captivating vista, capturing the architectural grandeur of the cathedral framed...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two cats playing with a measuring tape- Charles Van den Eycken (1859 -1923)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel Signed and dated lower left: "Ch. Van den Eycken, 1917." Oil on panel Signed and dated lower left: “Ch.Van den Eycken, 1917.” In this charming painting two kittens h...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

A happy family - Ferdinand de Braekeleer (Antwerp 1792 - Antwerp 1883)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel Signed lower left: "Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Antwerpen, 1861." This depiction of a Happy Family clearly shows the typical style of De Braekeleer. One can read the pain...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Early 20th cent trapezium-shaped hand-painted wooden panel with floral motifs
Located in Oostende, BE
Very decorative trapezium-shaped wooden panel with floral motives. The painting is slightly damaged here and there, as can be seen on pictures. Wear consistent with age.
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Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Wood Panel

The Playful Four - Charles van den Eycken (Antwerp 1859-1923)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right: "Ch. Van den Eycken,. 1907" The Belgian artist Charles van den Eycken studied at the Académie des ...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

City view of the Graslei in Ghent - François Edouard Bertin (1797-1871)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel Signed lower right: "Bertin, 1870," Bertin was a French painter, he represented the details and general character of a landscape with great skill. On this painting we can see a view of the Graslei in Ghent. The Graslei is a quay in the historic city center of Ghent, Belgium, located on the right bank...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Painting French school romantic italian bandit 1820 1830 JOLLIVET 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the 19th century (In the 1820s/1830s) Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm (61 x 53 cm with frame) Unsigned Stamp from the collection of the merchant Jules Nicolas Moyon Beauti...
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1830s Romantic Paintings

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Oil

A kitchen interior - Adriaan de Braekeleer (1818-1904)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas Signed lower left: "Adriaan De Braekeleer, 1862" In Adriaan de Braekeleer's painting, the rustic charm of a kitchen interior comes ali...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ships in open water - Charles-Louis Verboeckhoven (Waasten 1802-1889)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas Signed lower left: “Louis Verboeckhoven” Dimensions: 53 x 70 cm, 79 x 97 cm (framed) “Ships in open water,” is an artwork by Charles-Louis Verboeckhoven presenting ...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Seduction - Auguste de Wilde (1819-1886)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right: "A. De Wilde, 1847" This work ‘The Seduction’ by Auguste De Wilde invites viewers into a lively and bustling tavern scene, capturing the...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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
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Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Naturalistic Continental painter - 19th century Continental landscape painting
Located in Varmo, IT
Continental painter (19th century) - Sailing boat on the lake. 46 x 77 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame. Condition report: Lined canvas. Good condition of the pic...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
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...
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1980s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Old Barn Scene of a Farm in the English Countryside by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Old Barn Scene of a Farm in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Signed, vintage original, oil on heavy grain linen, reframed in a high qu...
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1980s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
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...
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1980s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Notte" Olio 48 x 33 1899
Located in Torino, IT
Notturno Magico Atmosfera magica Ernst Liebermann (1869 – 1960) è stato un pittore, grafico e illustratore tedesco. Nel 1893 vinse la medaglia d'oro ("den grossen Schulpreis") del...
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1890s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1870's French Oil Painting Large Canvas Three Children Fishing Woodland Pool
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fishing the Pool French School, 19th century, circa 1860's-1870's oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 25.5 x 21.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: overall good co...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Small Neapolitan fishermen. XIX century. With Gulf of Naples and Vesuvius
Located in Firenze, IT
Small Neapolitan fishermen with girl. XIX century. Foreign artist active in Italy. Painting representing two children against the background of the Gulf of Naples with the volcano...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

CARRE-SOUBIRAN French romantic painting 19th Sleeping beauty fairy tale PERRAULT
Located in PARIS, FR
Victor CARRE-SOUBIRAN Montereau (Seine-et-Marne), 18.. – 1897 Oil on canvas 76 x 56 cm (94 x 76 cm with frame) Signed lower left “Carré-Soubiran” Painting exhibited at the Salon des...
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1870s Romantic Paintings

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Oil

last Supper - Figurative Oil Painting Colors Grey White Black Brown
Located in Sofia, BG
"Last Supper" is an modern, romantic art line painting by the Bulgarian artist Maestro Zhivko Zheliazkov, About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas STYLE: Romantic, Im...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Scandinavian Landscape View by Swedish Artist Oscar Lycke, Large Size Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Oscar Lycke was a Swedish artist from Sundsvall. He is best known for his impressive colourful landscape paintings in a national romantic and realism styl...
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1920s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Het huis van Rembrandt van Rijn, Cornelis Springer, Watercolor/paper, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1817-1891 Cornelis Springer (Amsterdam, May 25, 1817 - Hilversum, February 20, 1891) was born as the fourth son of carpenter and contractor Willem Springer. Springer received training as a house painter from the house and carriage painter Andries de Wit and from his eldest brother, who was an architect, lessons in architectural drawing and perspective. After studying at the Amsterdam Academy, he painted accurately executed cityscapes with a lot of sunlight effect in Amsterdam, temporarily in Brussels and in Germany. As a member of the 'Felix Meritis' society in Amsterdam, he won a gold medal for a church interior in 1847. Together with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Sledging, Petrus G. Vertin, Oil paint/panel, romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1819-1893 Vertin was born in The Hague. He received his first lessons from JHA Breckenheimer. Awarded in 1835, and became a student of the 'Hague Academy of Visual Arts...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Painting of a Mountain in Lake District England by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of a Mountain in Lake District England by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Prov...
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1990s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mother and Daughter from Nathanson Family by C. W. Eckersberg, museum copy 19th.
Located in PARIS, FR
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg is the most important painter of of Danish painting's "Golden Age". Young Pupil of David, at 3, rue de Beaune in Paris, he remained faithful to Neo-C...
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1810s Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Winter in Holland, J.J. Spohler, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1811 -1866 Jan Jacob Spohler was born in Nederhorst den Berg on November 7, 1811. He studied with JW Pieneman at the Amsterdam Academy and devoted his life to depicting...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1830's French Romantic Period Large Oil Painting Christ on the Cross
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Crucifixion French School, circa 1830's circle of Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 37.5 x 22.5 inches provenance: private collection, northern France ...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Dutch oil painting on panel, traveler horseback with a dog, ca. 1835
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Painting with a traveler on a white horse and accompanied by a dog looking up at a road sign in the form of a cross. On the roadsign is ” Arnhem”. (a town at the Rhine river in the E...
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1830s Romantic Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

The Cottage, A Rural Idyll, Large Scale French Country Landscape. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large scale oil on canvas landscape painting of a thatched cottage with a far view to a church spire beyond a lake by Percy. The painting is signed bottom right and is presented in...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Wooded Landscape - British Victorian art romantic landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
A stunning oil on canvas by British nineteenth century artist Joseph Thors who was a Birmingham based artist. He was a noted rustic landscape painter and he specialised in these sort...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Horse Drawn Plough with Two Horses Ploughman and Dog by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Horse Drawn Plough with Two Horses, Ploughman and his Dog. Signed, Oil on Canvas, housed in a gilt frame, by British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Art measures 24 x 16 inches Fram...
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1990s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

White - Figurative Oil Painting Colors Grey White Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"White" is an modern, romantic art line painting by the Bulgarian Zhivko Zheliazkov, About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas STYLE: Romantic, Impressionist, Contemp...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Jesus Christ in Front of his Accusers - Figurative Painting Grey White Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"Jesus Christ in front of his accusers" is an modern, romantic painting by the Bulgarian artist Maestro Zhivko Zheliazkov, About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas ST...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Busy on the ice, A. Stademann, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Germany, 1824-1895 German painter Adolph Stademann was born in Munich, Germany in 1824. He received painting lessons from Carl August Lebschée and the landscape painter Moritz Lotze...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Walking on the farm, P.L.F. Kluyver, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1816-1900 Pieter Lodewijk Francisco Kluyver (1816-1900) is known as one of the great names in the genre of the Dutch Romantic School, with his detailed and atmospheric ...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hilding Werner (1880-1944) - Moonlight Over Krokvattnet (near Glafsfjorden)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hilding Werner (1880-1944) was a Swedish artist known for his portraits, romantic landscape paintings of Värmland, and caricature drawings. We are privi...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Old town Sofia - Oil Painting Grey Black White
Located in Sofia, BG
"Old town Sofia" is a modern, romantic landscape painting by Maestro Zhivko Zheliazkov, TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas STYLE: Romantic, Impressionist, Contemporary Edition : Un...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

First lighthouse in Amsterdam, P.C. Dommersen, 19th century, Oil paint/panel
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1852 – 1918 Pieter Cornelis Dommersen was born in Utrecht. From 1852 he lived and worked in Amsterdam, where his mother died in 1861. The painter specialized in paintin...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

On the way home, S.L. Verveer, 19th century, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1813-1876 Salomon Leonardus Verveer studied at the’ Academy of Fine Art’ in The Hague. He was a pupil of B.J. van Hove. He made journeys to Germany and France. He pain...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Prayer - Figurative Oil Painting Colors Grey White Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"Prayer" is an modern, romantic art line painting by the Bulgarian Zhivko Zheliazkov, About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas STYLE: Romantic, Impressionist, Contem...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Notes To Oneself, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Loca...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Romantic British painter - Early 19th century landscape painting - Moonlight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (early 19th century) - Boats in the moonlight on the Thames. 30.5 x 41.5 cm without frame, 49 x 59 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in carved and gild...
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Late 18th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Stormy weather, J. Hilverdink, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1813-1902 Johannes was born in Groningen as the son of the stage actor Jacobus Johannes Marianus Hilverdink (1783-1828) and Anna Maria Corver. His mother was a granddau...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

The wedding Dress, Large Scale French 1950s Society Portrait
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large scale 1950s French society portrait by Anne-Marie Joly. The painting is signed and dated bottom right. Presented in a magnificent carved wood...
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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