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
WOP 2 - 00633
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet size 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated, and titled on bottom right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
"A Gentleman's Daughter"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Zebra Books
Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator since the 1970s.
Signed lower left.
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Ocean
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted in his studio from a preliminary study painted en-plein-air at Gibson Lane beach in Sagaponack, New York. The sun has clearly just set, hence the lavender aroma of the horizon, which reflects then onto the thin layer of water pulling back from shore, into the sea. A romantic seascape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WOP 2 - 00656
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.75 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2.00632
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper
unframed full sheet size is 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated, and titled on bottom right corner
Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wa...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Scandals, Paperback Cover
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of "Scandals" written by Diana Hamilton, Harlequin Books
Signed Lower Right
Man and woman lying in bed under the covers holding each other smili...
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Build me a Dream, Paperback Cover
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...
Category
1980s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
An Unlikely Attraction
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This painting was published as the cover for An Unlikely Attraction by Melinda McRae, Signet Regency Romance, Signet Books, 1991.
Illustration of a young couple.
Signed lower r...
Category
1990s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"Full Personality" Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post, 1933
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Full Personality," by John Taintor Foote and illustrated by Henry P. Raleigh for the Saturday Evening Post, January 28, 1933.
"I've come to drown myself -- will you help?"
Henry Patrick Raleigh...
Category
1930s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Board, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled #5250
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas
Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky and ...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
WOP 2 - 00639
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper
image size: 6.75 x 11.75 inches
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
WOP 2 - 00640
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper
image size: 6.75 x 12.5 inches
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated w...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
WOP 2 - 00637
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper
image size: 7 inches x 12 inches
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminate...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
WOP 2 - 00636
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper
image size: 7 x 13 inches
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with f...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
WOP 2 - 00641
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper
image size: 7.25 x 13.25 inches
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
Pair Fine Antique American Oil on Canvas California Landscapes Thomas Hill 1875
By Thomas Hill
Located in Portland, OR
A very good & rare pair of oil on canvas landscape paintings by American 19th century artist Thomas Hill (1829-1908), games birds in a pastoral setting, circa 1875.
The painting to t...
Category
1870s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 19th-Century British School, Romantic Landscape With Cattle & Coastal View
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This picturesque early 19th-century British oil painting depicts a romantic landscape with sailboats, cattle, estuary, and coastal view. It’s a celebration of nature delivered in air...
Category
1810s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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
GUDIN Henriette Marine sunset boats sea romantic french 19th small panel
Located in PARIS, FR
Henriette GUDIN Paris,1825 - Paris,1892 Oil on wood 14 x 21 cm (40 x47 cm with frame) Signed lower left "H. Gudin" Very beautiful 19th century frame decorated with friezes, interlaci...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
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
Oil, Canvas
Antique portrait of a woman, French romantic oil painting, female portrait
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique portrait of a young woman with a book. Romantic French 1800's oil painting on canvas. A demure young woman stands for the artist holding a ...
Category
1840s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Bruges - Charles Kuwasseg (Draveil 1828-1904)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: "Charles Kuwasseg, 1873"
Provenance: Macconnal-Mason
Dimensions: 56 x 100 cm, 73 x 117 cm (framed)
The artwork “View of Bruges,” by Cha...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Art Collector - Victor- Marais-Milton (1872 - 1948)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel
Signed lower left: “A monsieur David, un bon souvenir. V. Marrais Milton”
Dimensions: 37 x 35 cm, 53 x 45 cm(framed)
Victor Marais -Milton was a French artist, born ...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Painting marine boats sea Normandy BURLIN GUDIN romantic french 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Nathalie BURLIN
(19th century)
Oil on wood panel
22 x 35 cm (43 x 56 cm with frame)
Signed lower right “Nanon Burlin”
Very beautiful 19th century frame in gilded wood decorated with palmettes
Very good condition
Nathalie Burlin painted the shores of Normandy with a meticulous work, a shimmering light with multiple reflections on the water and a beautiful and characteristic blue-green. Her art reminds of the marines of Théodore Gudin...
Category
1880s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
The classroom - Ferdinand de Braekeleer (1792-1883)
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel
Signed and dated lower left: "Ferdinand de Braekeleer, 1868, Antwerp."
This depiction of a classroom clearly shows the typical style of De Braekeleer. One can read the painting as one reads a story. The viewer's gaze can wander about, analyzing all the different characters and their activities. There is a sort of humor to the scene, with a psychological characterization of the different characters. On the left side of the classroom, we can see several students working diligently. While another one has thrown his writing slate to the ground, he seems to have given up. In the center of the painting, we can see the older school teacher, explaining carefully to three of his students how the problems should be solved.
In this work we can also see how De Braekeleer follows the composition schemes that were common in the seventeenth century. Think for instance of ‘little schools’ attributed to Adriaan Brouwer, Adriaan van Ostade or Jan Steen.
Ferdinand de Braekeleer was a Flemish painter well known for his genre scenes and emerges from this painting as an excellent craftsman. The high quality of his works revived Belgian painting and his role as a teacher of the next generation of artists was significant. He taught at the Antwerp Academy from 1855 onwards, and had artists like Charles Venneman...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A winter landscape with hunters on a path along a stream
Located in Tallinn, EE
Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen
(The Hague 1795-1860)
A winter landscape with hunters on a path along a stream
Signed and dated 'H vd S. Bak...
Category
1820s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ambition n°15_Swan Scalabre 2023, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative/Swimmers
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Ambition n°15"
Oil on Wood
8 x 12 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
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...
Category
1990s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Wax
Large Landscape With Pines in Sunset - Motif From Liden by Oscar Lycke, Sweden
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 style...
Category
1920s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Dawn Chorus, Late Summer Abundance, Romantic Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Belle Epoque oil on canvas of the Dawn Chorus, birds and foliage in an idealised landscape. The work is not signed but is presented in a very fine 19th century wood and gilt n...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gold & Despair
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...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
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 ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Richard Westall, ‘The Fishing Party’ 19th Century Oil on Canvas
Located in London, GB
After Richard Westall, early 19th century
‘The Fishing Party’
Oil on panel; held in a period Empire style frame.
Dimensions listed refer to framed size.
Provenance: Private Colle...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Turtle Man
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Beautiful drawing by enigmatic artist Len Poteshman
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil
'River Landscape with Birch Trees', Italianate Romanticism
By Caret
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial oil landscape showing an idyllic view of a lake screened by silver birch trees with fortifications rising above the far shore.
Signed lower left, "Caret" and painted c...
Category
1970s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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