Romantic Portrait Prints
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
The Wrath of Elihu: 'I Am Young, And Ye Are Very Old, Wherefore I Was Afraid.'
Located in Storrs, CT
The Wrath of Elihu. 'I Am Young, And Ye Are Very Old, Wherefore I Was Afraid'. 1823-25. Engraving. .Binyon catalog 117 state ii, Bindman catalog 632. Image 7 7/8 x 5 15/16; plate 8 ...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cairo with Murad Bey's Palace: A Hand-colored Aquatint & Engraving by L. Mayer
By Luigi Mayer
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored aquatint and engraving entitled "Principal Square in Grand Cairo, with Murad Bey's Palace", published in London by R. Bowyer in 1801. The print was created by ...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem: A Hand-colored Aquatint & Engraving by L. Mayer
By Luigi Mayer
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored aquatint and engraving entitled "Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem", published in London by R. Bowyer in 1804. The print was created by Thomas Milton (1743-1827) from drawings by Luigi Mayer.
This beautiful, detailed, original engraving is printed on deluxe J. Whatman paper with very wide left and right margins. There is a watermark "1801" indicating the year the paper was made. The sheet measures 11.25" high and 16" wide. There is a small faint spot in the upper margin on the left and a tiny faint spot in the right upper corner and another in the left lower corner. The engraving is otherwise in excellent condition with vibrant colors throughout the image.
"The Pool of Bethesda...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Susan, Lady Belasyse /// Memoirs of Count Grammont Royal Portrait Engraving Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Anthony Hamilton (British-French, 1645-1719)
Title: "Susan, Lady Belasyse" (Plate 45)
Portfolio: Memoirs of Grammont
Year: 1808 (First edition)
Medium: Original Stipple Engra...
Category
Early 1800s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Intaglio
Un plaideur auquel manquent malheureusement
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Un plaideur auquel manquent malheureusement les pieces les plus importantes, les pieces de cent sous.
(A litigant who unfortunately doesn't have the most important details to success..dollars and cents)
Series: Croquis par Daumier, No. 1
As published in Le Charivari, Paris, October 20, 1865.
Croquis (Sketches by Daumier) is a series of 4 prints...
Category
1860s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bold & Elegant Large Giclée of Borzois in a Rendez-vous set in Classical Setting
Located in Charleston, US
This stunning large-format gallery-wrapped giclée captures internationally acclaimed Count Bernard de Claviere’s last Borzoi painting, "Rendez-vous o...
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2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Giclée
Hand coloured framed print of semi nude sculpture like marble statue of female
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, "Cleansing a Shrike (Blackbird’s Birdbath)", 2018
Handcoloured portrait of a bird-like spirit, immobilised in marble, cleansing in a sprin...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Glass, Oak, Paint, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
'Richard Wagner' — 1920s Portrait of the Composer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Francis Coradal-Cugat, 'Richard Wagner', etching, c. 1928. Signed, titled, and numbered ‘2/50’ in pencil with the artist’s inked fingerprint beneath his signature. A fine, richly ink...
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1920s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Alexandria, Egypt & Lighthouse: A Hand-colored Aquatint & Engraving by L. Mayer
By Luigi Mayer
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored aquatint and engraving entitled "Part of the New City of Alexandria, with the Light House", published in London by R. Bowyer from 1802-1805. The print was crea...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Marilyn Chanel, 2023
Located in Toronto, ON
72" x 58"
8/20
Limited Edition Silkscreen of 20 with Diamond Dust on Coventry Paper with Hand-Deckled edges
Hand Signed by Russell Young
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Beauté du XVIIIe Siècle 5
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
Beauté du XVIIIe Siècle 5
Archival Pigment Inks on 310 gsm hahnemühle paper
Year: 2022
Size: 40x26in
Edition: 50
Signed, dated and numbered by ha...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
$1,100 Sale Price
44% Off
TAMBIEN ESTO
Located in Aventura, FL
Tambien esto / So is this (Disasters of War, plate 43, Harris 163, Delteil 162). Original etching, burnished aquatint, and burnisher, c. 1808-1814. The clergy are running; their floc...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Paper
$1,600 Sale Price
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Beauté du XVIIIe Siècle 7
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
Beauté du XVIIIe Siècle 7
Archival Pigment Inks on 310 gsm hahnemühle paper
Year: 2022
Size: 32x34in
Edition: 50
Signed, dated and numbered by ha...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
$1,100 Sale Price
44% Off
Beauté du XVIIIe Siècle 6
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
Beauté du XVIIIe Siècle 6
Archival Pigment Inks on 310 gsm hahnemühle paper
Year: 2022
Size: 35x30in
Edition: 50
Signed, dated and numbered by ha...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
$1,100 Sale Price
44% Off
Harlequin Clown entitled "Little Queen" by Philippe Alfieri
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Harlequin Clown entitled "Little Queen" by Italian/American artist Philippe Alfieri (1921-2009);
limited edition lithograph titled & signed by the artist
Category
20th Century Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Siren immobilised in marble locked in embrace and galleon ship in the background
Located in London, GB
Handcoloured portrait of a conjoined siren, immobilised in marble, locked in a sisterly embrace. Inspired by 19th-century cabinet cards, medical illustration, sweet singing Scottish Selkies, Lyra and her sister defend each other's isolation.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: 'Lyra’s Lips are as White as Mine’, 2019
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag Fine Art Paper (100% cotton)
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
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2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
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A Gable in the Grande Rue, Lisieux
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Located in Aventura, FL
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