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
Voyeur chair. Romantic Couple Kissing and Embracing, Mid Century Illustration
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...
Category
1950s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board
Decorative, romantic oil painting by Heinrich Hartung "Dinner in the Park".
Located in Berlin, DE
Decorative, romantic oil painting Heinrich Hartung "Dinner in the Park" oil on canvas
Very good original condition.
Signed lower right. Dimensions w...
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
Attraction
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the beginning of a great love through attraction
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The gondola ride., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
She went Venice on last October. She said, “I was fascinated by the history of gondola, how people used to travelâ€
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mary, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Thong Le
Located in Yardley, PA
A portrait of the mother Mary, oil on canvas, ready to hang. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sleeping Beauty", George Tsui, Original Oil on Canvas, 47x19 in., Figurative
By George Tsui
Located in Dallas, TX
George Tsui's imagination is filled with Chinese themes. The idea of creating his own brand of classic romanticism, unrestrained by conventional reality, w...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Happy is on the way
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Matheus is greatly influenced by the city he now calls home -- New York has long been the epicenter of fashion, hip hop, and street art, where he feels his interest in contemporary a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Watercolor
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Girls in the Orchard” , English country landscape in Summer, oil on canvas
Located in Naples, Florida
Robert Gemmell Hutchison was born and educated in Edinburgh. He began work as a seal engraver, although his real love was painting and he later studied art at The Board of Manufactur...
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frogs in love
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Couple of frogs reflect love
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Frozen River Scene with Windmill Beyond, Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Naples, Florida
Pieter Caspar Christ (Dutch, 1822 - 1888)
This Romantic painter of cityscapes and landscapes received his artistic education from his ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Waiting for the memories to come, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
By Danko Merin
Located in Yardley, PA
„Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.“ The work of art is painted in the oil technique, with the application of relief details an...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
1852 oval Portrait of Marie Potonie (Sievers), Oil Painting
Located in Berlin, DE
Ornate, decorative oil painting.
Illustration of Marie Potonie (born Sievers).
Marie was the daughter of the royal Prussian court painter Johannes Sievers.
Extremely fine painting....
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,707 Sale Price
27% Off
"Neapolitan Coast", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Artist William James Müller
Located in Madrid, ES
WILLIAM JAMES MÜLLER
British, 1812 - 1845
NEAPOLITAN COAST
signed "W. J. Muller" (lower right)
oil on canvas
23-5/8 x 35-3/4 inches (60 x 91 cm.)
...
Category
1830s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Riders Passing by a Tavern", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Joaq. D. Bécquer
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER
Spanish, 1817 - 1879
RIDERS PASSING BY A TAVERN
signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla, 1847." (lower l...
Category
1840s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Washerwomen", 19th Century Spanish School Oil on Canvas of Washerwomen at Work
Located in Madrid, ES
SPANISH SCHOOL, 19th CENTURY
ARTIST UNKNOWN
oil on canvas
10-1/2 x 7-5/8 inches (26.5 x 19.3 cm.)
framed: 15-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches (39 x 31.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Spanish Collector, Madrid...
Category
1890s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘The Freedom Of Dreamsâe Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas framed to Guild of Framers Museum Standard. 10â€
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Courtship", Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Sapnish Artist M. Alonso Pérez
Located in Madrid, ES
MARIANO ALONSO PÉREZ
Spanish, 1857 - 1930
COURTSHIP
signed "Alonso Pérez" (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 x 12-1/8 inches (58 x 30.7 cm.)
framed: 28...
Category
1890s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Champagne on deck, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pacific Ocean. It was a sunny day and the sky shone with joy. Clouds, like emerald facets, reflected the blue of the sea and the lines of the waves. The warm and favorable wind carefully held the wings of the sailboats...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
The Young Musician
By Otto Erdmann
Located in Naples, Florida
Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann was born in 1834 in Leizpig, Germany. He is best known for his fine interior and genre scenes, often including figures. This original oil is a prime examp...
Category
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WOP 2 - 00654
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 - 00629
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00628
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00624
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00617
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
paper size 22.25 x 30 inches
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illumi...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Blue Rose l, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
It is an ORIGINAL painting not a print or reproduction or mass produced art! I personally pack my artworks. All necessary arrangements are made to make sure your paintings arrive saf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1940s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WOP 2 - 00639
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
signed lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
Spring Will Come, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Sara Brogdon
Located in Yardley, PA
An odd little abandoned shack on an island just west of Seattle. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: R...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cold Up Here, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Sara Brogdon
Located in Yardley, PA
Mt Ranier, WA... winter 2019. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Czech Switzerland, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My childhood memories. Remembering growing up with my grandfather who was my biggest influence and role model. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Hummingbirds, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This oil painting is on 12x12x1.5 gallery wrapped canvas and it's done in a style of romantic surrealism. The sides of the canvas are painted white and will be shipped ready to hang....
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Skaters on a Frozen Canal, Oil on Panel Painitng
By Johannes Frederick Hulk I
Located in Naples, Florida
Johannes Frederik Hulk Sr. (Dutch School 1829-1911)
A member of the famous nineteenth-century family of artists, J.F. Hulk Sr concentrated mostly on painting town and vil...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ambient Mushroom, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This oil painting is part of the Overgrown series by artist. The Ambient Mushroom was painted in the artist's studio. The creation of this work was fueled by the whimsical atmosphere...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blond Pin up with Perfect Smile Tennis Racket - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Julia (Elsie Julia Miller) Schleicher (Canadian/American, 1916-1988)
she was an important female illustrator
Woman Tennis Player
Pastel and gouache on boa...
Category
1940s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Redbook Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for Redbook, 1924.
Listed as #25 in "Howard Chandler Christy" Biography 1977.
Howard Chandler Christy had a long, colorful and varied career. He ...
Category
1920s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Board, Charcoal
"Dancers in a Courtyard", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Joaq. Domínguez Bécquer
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER
Spanish, 1817 - 1879
DANCERS IN A COURTYARD
signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla 1849." (lower right)...
Category
1840s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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'...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Falls at Tivoli, Italy
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Follower of Claude Joseph Vernet (Early 19th Century)
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
"The oak grove". Autumn landscape. Sheila Querre Oil on panel. Romantic style
Located in Segovia, ES
"The oak grove". Oil on panel in Romantic style by Sheila Querre
Dimension framed cm: 78 H x 97 W x 5 D
Dimension frame inches: 38,18 H x 30,70 H x 1,96 D
D...
Category
1980s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Beaumont landscape" . Sheila Querre. Oil on canvas Purple Blue Romantic style
Located in Segovia, ES
"Beaumont landscape" An other Sheila Querre's blue landscape, very much in Romantic Style.
Dimension art cm: 65 H x 92 W x 2 D
Dimension art inches: 25.6 H x 36.2 W x 2.3 D
The c...
Category
1980s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scandalous Bride, Harlequin Romance Book Cover
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A romance novel cover for Scandalous Bride by Diana Hamilton, published by Harlequin for their Scandals series, 1997.
Signed Lower Right
Man and woman lying in bed...
Category
1990s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"A Tall Dark Stranger"
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.
Category
1990s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
“Slumming Among the Four Hundred, ” Post Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original illustration for the article “Slumming Among the Four Hundred” by Alfred Henry Lewis, for The Saturday Evening Post, published November 2, 1907.
The article offers a satiri...
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board, Paper, Pencil
Couple in Modern Office
By Saul Tepper
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Initialed center right.
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...
Category
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
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
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 ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Price Upon Request
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.