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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
Gelata
Located in Torino, TO
The work consists of an agglomerated acrylic base, on which the artist painted the subject with acrylic
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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic

Chines Jug, Grapes And Flowers - Dutch Classic Style Still- life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Classic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. You can see him in his house on o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Walking Along the Beach, Bauer, German School, 19th Century, Signed P. Bauer
Located in Bruges, BE
Walking Along the Beach German School 19th Century Signature: Signed bottom right P. Bauer Dimensions: Image size 31 x 24 cm, frame size 42 x 32 cm Medium: Aquarelle
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Watercolor

PORTRAIT OF REBECCA AT THE FOUNTAIN - In the Manner of Guffens - Oil on paint
Located in Napoli, IT
Portrait of rebecca at the fountain - I. Di Matteo Italia 1998 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x60 This magnificent painting by I. De Matteo is the rein...
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1990s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Romanticism Still Life Portrait Painting of a Headmaster with Studying Students
By Thomas Sully
Located in Houston, TX
Scene of a seated headmaster watching over a pair of studying students in the style of Romanticism. The work has been attributed to the renowned American portrait artist Thomas Sully...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

SERENADE- Pietro Colonna - Italian Figurative Oil on canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Serenade - Pietro Colonna Italia 2005 - Oil on canvas cm. 60 x 30 The painting by Pietro Colonna depicts a romantic scene in which the young man plays the lute to his sweet girl, th...
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Early 2000s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

ANGELS ON THE WALL - Ciro Morrone - Figurative Italian Oil on Canvas Painting.
By Ciro Morrone
Located in Napoli, IT
Angels on the wall - Ciro Morrone Italia 2013 - Oil on canvas cm. 40x60 this painting is a reinterpretation of the work 'The New Angel' by New Mexico watercolourist Steve Hanks...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Flowers Bed. 1998. Oil on linen, 50x60.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The Flowers Bed. 1998. Oil on linen, 50x60.5 cm
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1990s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Oil

Still Life With Wagtails. 2011. Oil on linen, 40X45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still Life With Wagtails. 2011. Oil on linen, 40X45 cm
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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Still Life with Coffee-Beans. 2011. Oil on linen, 45X50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still Life with Coffee-Beans. 2011. Oil on linen, 45X50 cm
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Oil

Melancholy female figure oil on canvas painting
By Josep Maria Draper
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep María Draper was born in 1931 and received a great creative influence from the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting tha...
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1990s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Horse Drover, 19th Century Austrian School, Oil on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid 19th Century oil on canvas of horses and their drover. The painting is signed MM, dated 1849 and carries a signature to the stretcher Marie Munch. The painting is presented in ...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman in the garden. Romantic Oil Blue Landscape with beautiful female figure.
Located in Segovia, ES
Woman in the garden. Romantic and full of light landscape with beautiful female figure by the Spanish artist Manuel García Blázquez. Oil on canvas. Dimensions: Unframed: (H) 89 x (W) 116 (D) 2 cm. / 35.04 x 45.67 x 0.79 in. Framed: (H) 109 x (W) 136 (D) 4 cm. / 42.91 x 53.54 x 1.57 in. Light is the protagonist in this landscape with female figure by Manuel García Blázquez; an intense and soft light that interacts with color, and the impressionist technique that defines the work of this painter. The beautiful silhouette of a woman dressed in white and the reflections of the water in the pond at the back of the garden give the scene a certain luminous dreaminess, which contrasts with the strength of the color of the flowers in the foreground. The background landscape, so timeless and lyrical, serves as the setting for a female portrait with classical reminiscences. The work is executed along the lines...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Thomas Miles Richardson (Snr), (1784-1848). 'Swiss Lake with the Matterhorn' .
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine watercolor by Thomas Miles Richardson senior, (1784-1848). A view of a Swiss lake and Alps with the Matterhorn mountain. One of the fine En...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Watercolor

Along the River “La Meuse” by Martinus Kuytenbrouwer, 1821 – 1897, Signed
Located in Bruges, BE
Martinus Kuytenbrouwer Amersfoort, The Netherlands 1821 – 1897 Paris, France Dutch Painter Along the River “La Meuse” Signature: Signed lower right Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Seascape" - Framed 20th Century Romantic Realistic Ocean Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
I wish I knew who painted this dramatic Romantic seascape depicting a rough surf crashing on the rocky shores of some volcanic island. The sea is en...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Mother with Child, Rose, Old Master, Figurative Painting, Love, Christmas Scene
Located in Greven, DE
L. Franssen Mother and child with a rose Oil on wood, 44,5 x 33,5 cm signed The artist of this outstanding painting is completely unknown so far. There is no entry under "L. Franssen" in any encyclopaedia or reference work. There was a Dutch artist, Jan Fransen (1604/5 - ca. 1646), who was mainly based in Amsterdam. According to Thieme/Becker, he created numerous paintings with biblical depictions, study heads and still lifes. However, it could also have been Jan Franssen or Frantzen, who was not born until 1644 but was also active in Amsterdam. However, no confirmed works by either artist are known. Just as interesting as the attribution is the depiction: a young woman holds her child on her lap while she prepares a meal on a hob. At the same time she holds a rose in her hand. Most likely, Mary is depicted here with the young Jesus...
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18th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Mastery IV (Confronting Your Fears)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others:...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rembetes at Night
Located in Spetses, GR
This piece warms the soul, we enjoy Zachariadis' playful figurative style while from a distance there is a masterful complexion of striped patterned orange, red, and dark tones that ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Lady Red Rose female half length profile portrait warm soft soothing color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is oil paint on linen canvas mounted on wood framed in a reddish brown color frame Signed on reverse
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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Abandoned Building, Mid Century Sepia Ghost Town Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A moody mid century landscape painted in neutral, sepia tones featuring an abandoned building by Joseph Bodner (American, 1925-1982). Signed "Bodner" in ...
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Rift Valley, Sonde 5 (romanticism tonal nature organic copper abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relie...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer

Antique, Romantic Oil Painting, 19th Century. Old Hunting Lodge at the Lake.
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique, romantic oil painting, 19th century. Old hunting lodge at the lake. The painting with frame is displayed smaller in the interior preview, because the dimensions were measur...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

An Apples. 1998-2015. Oil on linen, 64, 5 x 75 cm
Located in Riga, LV
An Apples. ( To Steve Jobs Memory) 1998-2015. Oil on linen, 64,5 x 75 cm
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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Flute tune. 2008. Oil on linen, 80x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flute tune. 2008. Oil on linen, 80x100 cm
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Early 2000s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Violet Melody (Accordion time). 2014. Oil on canvas, 50x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Violet Melody (Accordion time). 2014. Oil on canvas, 50x60 cm
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

Nostalgia I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In "Nostalgia" a 21st -century Nigerian painter uses an impressionist technique the brushwork clearly visible —to evoke the haziness between wakefulne...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, ABS

Jour de Fête III_Swan Scalabre 2022, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Portrait/Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre "Jour de Fête III" Oil on Wood 6 x 4.5 in Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women, po...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Wood

Pharaohs hunting. 2001. Oil on linen, 70x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Pharaohs hunting. 2001. Oil on linen, 70x100 cm
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Early 2000s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Crete tune. 2010. Oil on linen, 80x90 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Crete tune. 2010. Oil on linen, 80x90 cm
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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Berglandschap, Mid 19th Century View of a Mountain Valley in Switzerland
By Alexandre Calame
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century oil on canvas view of a Swiss valley and mountainscape by Alexander Calame. The painting is signed bottom left. The canvas is on a fine stretcher with 'keys'. The painting has been in a private collection in the North of France since the early 20th Century. A very beautiful and expert rendition of one of Calame's iconic Swiss mountain views. Atmospheric view of light and shade, a moody sky with the sun just breaking through over a small mountain cottage retreat. Alex Calame was born in Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey, Switzerland. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother. In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art. In 1835 he began exhibiting his Swiss-Alps and forest paintings in Paris and Berlin. He became well known, especially in Germany. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, the Brienzersee, the Monte Rosa and Mont Cervin. He taught in Geneva, where Adolf Mosengel was one of his pupils as were some of the children of the Russian Imperial family of Nicholas I. Alexandre Calame...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Girl with horse. 2004. Oil on canvas, 65x75 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girl with horse. 2004. Oil on canvas, 65x75 cm
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Early 2000s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Major. (from series Music) 2011. Oil on linen, 70 x 80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Major. (from series Music) 2011. Oil on linen, 70 x 80 cm
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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Linen, Canvas, Oil

Pastel Toned Romantic Realistic Coastal Landscape of a Martello Tower
By William Sadler
Located in Houston, TX
Pastel coastal landscape painting attributed to Irish painter William Sadler. The work features a Martello tower, a kind of defensive fort that can be f...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Towel Prince. Baby in soft color sleepy dreamlike happy character
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood signed and dated on reverse. Sweet innocent childhood theme, pastel tones
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2010s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil, Magazine Paper

'Children Landing a Catfish', 19th Century American School, Large Nocturnal Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-to-late 19th century American School nocturnal landscape showing a view of three children, accompanied by their terrier, fishing by ...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pompeian Scene 19th century Painting Oil on Canvas Signed 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

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Oil

Mid 20th Century Portrait of a Young Woman oil
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine shoulder length portrait of a young woman circa 1940's-1950's Continental School. A fine shoulder length portrait of a young woman circa 1940's-1950's Continental School. oil ...
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Bramall Hall
By Walter Henry Sweet
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Walter Henry Sweet's watercolor of the interior of Bramall Hall is both delicate and romantic. His characteristic soft pinks and greens illicit the grandeur of this Cheshire manor ow...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Watercolor

UNCONSCIOUS RIVALS- Angelo Granati - Italy Oil on canvas painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Unconscious Rivals- Angelo Granati Italia 2004 - This is his reinterpretation of a greatest old master painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Oil on canvas cm.80x60. The painting is a true form of the romantic style of Alma-Tadema. It is an image of two women; one sitting, the other standing and apparently waiting for someone...
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Early 2000s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mountainscape
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century oil on board view of a valley and mountains in a landscape. Initialed HL (for Hermann Lauschner) and dated bottom right. Signed in full on the frame and the backboa...
Category

1990s Romantic Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board, Oil

Horses with Ploughmen in the English Countryside by Realist 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 ...
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1990s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lovers at the Fountain - Italian 19th Century Figurative Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Rome, IT
Amanti alla Fontana - Lovers by a fountain, painting oil on canvas, Signed left sight. Measures: cm 70 x 100 frame 118 x 145 Faustini Modesto. Brescia, 27 maggio 1839 - Roma, 23 m...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Signed M Gordigiani Female Portrait Painting 1880s oil canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The painting is signed on the bottom left: MGordigiani. It can be added to his mature production, as we can deduce from the clear Macchiaioli and Paris avant-guard influences, and wi...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

J J A Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923) A shoulder and back study, oil painting
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923) A shoulder and back study, oil study oil on canvas 34 x 19.5 cm In good condition, a few small inpainti...
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1890s Romantic Paintings

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Oil

'Tender Solitude', Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
'Tender Solitude' Acrylic on Canvas, hand finished frame. Approx 20”x16” including frame. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

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Acrylic

Volatile moment - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Portrait
Located in Warsaw, PL
KATARZYNA SZYDLOWSKA (born in 1969) Katarzyna Szydlowska studied at the European Academy of Arts under prof. Jerzy Duda Gracz, Antoni Falat and Franciszek Starowieyski. She received ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Board

J J A Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923) An oriental street, oil sketch
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923) An oriental street oil on canvas 11.5 x 14 cm no signature In good condition, canvas without stretcher,...
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1890s Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Swing Time, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This diptych explores a playground at dusk, when the swings and riding toy are abandoned waiting for the children to return. This time of day has always been my favorite for painting...
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20th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Coast
Located in Deddington, GB
Coast by Rosemary Houghton [2020] original Oil Image size: H:93 cm x W:93 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:90 cm x W:90 cm x D:4cm Frame Size: H:93 cm x W:93 cm x D:5cm Sold Fra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

#3022
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky...
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1990s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

The Last Train, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic on Canvas framed to guild of Frames Museum Standard :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

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Acrylic

Naturalistic Romantic Style Sublime Dutch Forest Picturesque Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalistic Romantic style sublime Dutch forest picturesque landscape painting by artist Cja. V. Dijk. The work features a detailed grove of trees with a faint building off in the distance. Signed and dated along front lower margin. Currently hung in a complementary carved gold frame...
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1980s Romantic Paintings

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Oil

La Routo Bagnado, The Meandering River.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary oil on canvas of a landscape titled 'La Routo Bagnado' by French artist Jean Pellegrin,signed bottom right and also titled, dated 2014 and signed to the reverse. Pelleg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

The Sunday Stroll
Located in Brooklyn, NY
THE SUNDAY STROLL - ADAPTED TO TODAY'S TIMES Carl Spitzweg, the painter of "The Sunday stroll," was a German genre painter representing the Biedermeier ...
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2010s Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Friends
Located in Miami, FL
The Condition is fair. work has been slightly over-cleaned. A heavy layer of glossy varnish. The surface of the canvas is undulated and most apparent from extreme side view . Yet in...
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Early 1800s Romantic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pair of Oil on Canvas Early 19th Century Portraits of a Man and Woman
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A pair of early 19th century French oil on canvas paintings of a man and woman, probably husband and wife. Neoclassical and Napoleonic in style, these paintings are very well execute...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Oil

Antique oil Painting, atmospheric Seascape. 19th Century. Oil on canvas.
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique oil painting, atmospheric seascape. 19th century. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Dimensions without frame 80 cm x 122 cm. The painting and the frame are in an age-appropriate co...
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19th Century Romantic Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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