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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
Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's Illustration
Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's Illustration

Saul TepperSpeak Only With Your Heart, McCall's Illustration, 1942

$8,500

Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's Illustration

By Saul Tepper

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Upper Left This illustration appeared in Edmond War's story, Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's magazine, 1942. From the Estate of Charles Martignette. Won the Harvard Award in 1929; Newspaper Award in 1936 and was elected to the Society of Illustrations Hall of Fame in 1980. Saul Tepper was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, and remained a New Yorker all his life. As a youngster, Tepper was awarded a correspondence course from the Landon School of Art. He also studied at The Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and at the Grand Central School of Art, under Harvey Dunn. Tepper first worked as a letterer in a fashion catalog...

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1940s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gusts Of Wind
Gusts Of Wind

Lachezar YavrukovGusts Of Wind, 2018

$2,886

Gusts Of Wind

By Lachezar Yavrukov

Located in Sofia, BG

"Gusts of Wind" is a romantic art line painting by the Bulgarian Lachezar Yavroukov, The painting is unframed. “The impressions of Lachezar Yavroukov'...

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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Couple Beside a Tree
Couple Beside a Tree

Henry RaleighCouple Beside a Tree

$2,400

Couple Beside a Tree

By Henry Raleigh

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Couple standing beside a tree Signed lower right Henry Patrick Raleigh was one of the most prolific of all our illustrators. In spite of this...

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20th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Ink, Paper, Watercolor

Love and Ceremony
Love and Ceremony

Rico TomasoLove and Ceremony

$3,500

Love and Ceremony

By Rico Tomaso

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Young couple getting married. Man putting the ring on his wife's finger. Signed upper right. As a young man, Rico Tomaso played piano in a small dance orchestra, wearing heavy...

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20th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed Egisto Sarri
Pompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed Egisto Sarri

Egisto SarriPompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed Egisto Sarri, circa 1870

$13,231

Pompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed Egisto Sarri

By Egisto Sarri

Located in Rome, IT

Egisto Sarri "Pompeian scene" Oil on canvas, measure: cm 30 x 48 with a filly carved gilt - wood frame cm 46 x 64 Signature in the lower left-hand corner: "E. Sarri Egisto Sarri (Figline val d'Arno 1837 - Florence 1901) Sarri studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini, and was one of Antonio Ciseri...

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19th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Oil

"A Tall Dark Stranger"
"A Tall Dark Stranger"

Robert Berran"A Tall Dark Stranger", 1994

$1,400

"A Tall Dark Stranger"

By Robert Berran

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Balantine books Signed lower right. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator since the 1970s.

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1990s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Build me a Dream, Paperback Cover
Build me a Dream, Paperback Cover

Robert MaguireBuild me a Dream, Paperback Cover, 1989

$2,500

Build me a Dream, Paperback Cover

By Robert Maguire

Located in Fort Washington, PA

This illustration was published as the paperback cover of, Build Me a Dream (Silhouette Special Edition series) by Pat Warren, Silhouette Books, 1989 A young man holding a young w...

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1980s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist
Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist

James WrightRural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, 1980 Circa

Price Upon Request

Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist

By James Wright

Located in Preston, GB

Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...

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1990s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Black Silk' Romantic Portrait of Woman with Flowers on Black in Black Dress

Goxwa'Black Silk' Romantic Portrait of Woman with Flowers on Black in Black Dress, 2012

Price Upon Request

'Black Silk' Romantic Portrait of Woman with Flowers on Black in Black Dress

By Goxwa

Located in Wellesley, MA

Ġoxwa began painting at a very young age in her native land of Malta and eventually enrolled at the Saint Martin School of Art in London. Years later, she moved to Boston and atte...

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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Wax

Gold & Despair
Gold & Despair

Johanna SchwarzbeckGold & Despair, 2017

Price Upon Request

Gold & Despair

By Johanna Schwarzbeck

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 Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Le Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)
Le Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)

Lazar MeyerLe Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)

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 ...

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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Turtle Man
Turtle Man

Leonard PoteshmanTurtle Man

Price Upon Request

Turtle Man

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Beautiful drawing by enigmatic artist Len Poteshman

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Oil

Romantic paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Romantic 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. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hiro Yokose, Dipen Bose, William Oxer F.R.S.A., and Sheila Querre. 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 4.5 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $178 and tops out at $1,300,000, while the average work sells for $3,061.

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