Academic Prints and Multiples
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
Freilicher, Sans titre, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 11.937 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: ...
Category
1960s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Blaine, Sans titre, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
By Nell Blaine
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 11.937 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the fo...
Category
1960s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Dodo, Abstract Signed Screenprint with Gold Leaf by Lebadang (aka Hoi)
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Dodo
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 31 x 31 in. (78.74 x 78.74 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Two Horses and Flowers Gold Screenprint by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Two Horses and Flowers
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 31 x 47 in. (78.74 x 119.38 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Richard Wagner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Richard Wagner
Etching, c. 1880
Signed in the plate (see photo)
Edition: c. 200 impressions
Condition: mint
Image/Plate size: 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 14 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches
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1880s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Carrying Fruit, Abstract Gold Leaf Screenprint by Lebadang aka Hoi
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Carrying Fruit
Medium: Screenprint, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 47 x 20.5 in. (119.38 x 52.07 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold Leaf
Louis I of France as a Roman Emperor, in profile to the right
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Louis I of France as a Roman Emperor, in profile to the right
Chiaroscuro woodcut, 1631-1633
Unsigned (as usual)
After a drawing by Hubert Goltzius (1526-1583)...
Category
17th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
ABS, Woodcut
19th century color lithograph portraits patriotic American stars flags
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Presidents of the U.S." is an original hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It features the first eleven presidents of the United States.
14" x 10" art
23" x 19 1/8" frame
Nathaniel Currier was born March 27, 1813 to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier in Roxbury, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to William S. and John Pendleton of Boston who had set up the first lithographic establishment in America. His apprenticeship served him well as he went on to be the largest publisher of lithographs. Mr. Maurer described Nat Currier as being very gentlemanly and liberal. As is evident to the success of the firm of Currier & Ives he was very devoted to his business.
Nat Currier had many friends including Horace Greely and P.T. Barnum. He was well known for his sense of humor and Harry T. Peters tells one story about P. T. Barnum. "Currier had heard that one day his friend, the great showman, had rushed into the barber shop of the old Park Hotel, at Beekman and Nassau Streets, to get a shave. Barnum had hurried up to Tom Higginson, the barber, and said, 'Tom, I'm in a hurry.' 'Sorry for it,' said Tom, 'but it's that gentleman's turn next.' 'That gentleman' was an unshaven irshman waiting for a ten-cent shave. Barnum turned to him and said, 'My friend, if you will let me have your turn, I'll pay for what you have done.' The gentleman consented, and, as Barnum found out later, had a full job done - absolutely everything the house had. The check was for a dollar and sixty cents. When Currier heard this story he found the very Irishman and had him pose. The result was the famous cartoon, "The Man that Gave Barnum 'His Turn.'"
Nathaniel was married twice; his first wife was Miss Eliza West of Boston. He had one son with Eliza, Edward West Currier. In 1847 he married Miss Laura Ormsbee of Vermont. Laura and Nathaniel are memorialized in the famous N. Currier lithograph The Road Winter...
Category
1840s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Avon - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Scotland, British, Braemar, Mountains
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Ben Avon, Near Braemar, January by His Majesty King Charles III (created when he was HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales) - Hand Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Tender Innocence print on canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
High quality print on canvas.
Made from original oil painting "Tender Innence". Originally created by artist Maria Matveyeva in 2016 year.
Category
2010s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas
Wensleydale from Moorcock - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Yorkshire, Landscape
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Wensleydale from Moorcock by His Majesty King Charles III (created when he was HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales) - Hand Signed Lim...
Category
1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Plums: George Brookshaw's Framed Hand-colored 19th C. Aquatint
Located in Alamo, CA
George Brookshaw's (1751-1823) beautiful "Plums" hand colored aquatint engraving from his "Pomona Brittanica", considered to be the finest British botanical large format treatise of the 19th-century. His engravings were unique for their rich tones and colors, elegant compositions with the fruit seeming to float on a mottled sumptuous background. There are purple, mustard-colored plums on brown branches with green leaves over a two-tone dark brown and light tan background.
The print is presented in an ornate bronze-colored wood frame with gold-colored inner and outer trims and a triple mat. The outer mat is a marbled light...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
$2,220 Sale Price
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19th century color lithograph portrait indigenous male subject feathers signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wa-Em-Boesh-Kaa, A Chippeway Chief," is an original hand-colored lithograph by McKenney & Hall. It features a portrait of a notable Native American chief, with informational text below.
13 1/2" x 18 3/4" paper
25 5/8" x 20 1/2" frame
American lithograph publishers. Most well-known for "History of the Indian Tribes of North America," a collection of 125 images that included biographical sketches and anecdotes of principal chiefs. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans...
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1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Venice, Rialto Bridge - Original etching and watercolor, 1831
Located in Paris, IDF
Dionisio MORETTI
Venice, Rialto Bridge, 1831
Original etching
Finely enhanced by hand with watercolor
On vellum 26 x 41 cm (c. 10.2 x 16 inch)
Ve...
Category
1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Icarus & Phaeton - Etching (1897)
Located in Paris, IDF
ARTIST: after Auguste RODIN
TITLE : Icarus and Phaeton
MEDIUM : Etching/photogravure after the original drawing
SIGNATURE : Unsigned
YEAR : 1897
PAPER : Vellum
SIZE : 13 x 10"
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Category
1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
19th century color lithograph indigenous portrait figure feathers bison red
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Kish-Ke-Kosh, A Fox Brave (Sauk-Fox)" is an original hand-colored lithograph by McKenney & Hall. This piece features a Native American man. Reference: Page 200 of The North American Indian Portfolios in the Library of Congress.
13 1/4" x 9 3/4" art
27 1/4" x 22 3/8" frame
American lithograph publishers. Most well-known for "History of the Indian Tribes of North America," a collection of 125 images that included biographical sketches and anecdotes of principal chiefs. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans...
Category
1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Ballochbuie, Balmoral, April - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Scotland, forest
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Ballochbuie, Balmoral, April by HM King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associated with the artworks of HIs Majesty...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"The Temptation of Saint Anthony " Etching, Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Temptation of Saint Anthony" is an original etching by Fernand Cormon. This piece has the artist's stamp. The piece is signed in pencil by the artis...
Category
1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Paper, Ink, Laid Paper
"Shooting" after George Townley Stubbs
Located in GB
William Woollett (1735–1785)
William Woollett was one of the most accomplished British engravers of the 18th century, renowned for his technical precision and his ability to translate the subtleties of painting into the language of print. Born in Maidstone, Kent, Woollett trained under John Tinney in London and quickly established himself as a master of landscape and historical engraving.
He became particularly celebrated for his engravings after works by artists such as Richard Wilson, Claude Lorrain, and Benjamin West — notably The Death of General Wolfe (after West), which became one of the most famous British prints of its age. Woollett’s exceptional skill in combining line engraving with etching allowed him to reproduce painterly effects of light, texture, and atmosphere with remarkable delicacy.
Elected an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy in 1775, Woollett elevated the status of printmaking to that of a fine art. His works, characterized by technical brilliance and tonal richness, remain benchmarks of 18th-century British engraving.
George Stubbs (1724–1806)
George Stubbs is regarded as one of Britain’s greatest animal painters, celebrated for his scientific observation, anatomical accuracy, and artistic sensitivity. Born in Liverpool, he studied anatomy independently, dissecting horses to understand their musculature and structure — research that culminated in his celebrated publication The Anatomy of the Horse (1766).
Stubbs’s paintings...
Category
Late 18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne), " Lithograph after Drawing by Adolphe Willette
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl.
15 3/4" x 12" art
23" x 19 1/4" frame
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections.
Biography
Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne.
He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation.
Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself.
The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...
Category
1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Black and White
18th century etching figurative royalty wedding scene print black and white
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Marriage of Saint Margaret and King Malcolm" is an etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman. There is an engraved signature with the artist's monogram followed by "pinxit et fecit," indicating that Runciman both designed the original drawing and likely executed the etching on the metal plate. On the left, a young woman with a halo in fine dress stoops slightly and gathers her skirts as she leans over to accept the ring that the man on the right is reaching to place upon her finger. He is also young, dressed finely, and wearing a crown. Between them, a church official with a pointed hat and a long flowing beard recites the appropriate prayers for the occasion, while onlookers crowd in the background. The tiled floor demonstrates the use of one-point perspective, and the church appears to be in the Gothic style.
Art size: 8 3/4" x 7 1/4"
Frame size: 26 1/2" x 22 3/8"
Alexander Runciman (Edinburgh 15 August 1736 – 4 October 1785 Edinburgh) was a Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects. He was the elder brother of John Runciman, also a painter.
He was born in Edinburgh, and studied at the Foulis Academy, Glasgow, and from 1750 to 1762 he was apprenticed to the landscape painter Robert Norie, later becoming a partner in the Norie family firm. He also worked as a stage painter for the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh.
In 1767, he went to Rome, where he spent five years. His brother John accompanied him, but died in Naples in the winter of 1768–69. During Runciman's stay in Italy he became acquainted with other artists such as Henry Fuseli and the sculptor Johan Tobias Sergel...
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1770s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
19th century landscape color lithograph seascape buildings cityscape houses
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chicago in Early Days" is an original color lithograph by Kurz & Allison. This piece features multiple views of the city of Chicago.
16 3/4" x 23 1/4" art
28 1/8" x 33 7/8" frame
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Category
1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Seated Nude" 2002 colorful lithograph of female figure at rest - unframed
By Beth Rundquist
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Edition 7/22
A resident of East Hampton, New York, Beth Rundquist paints portraits, still lifes, figures and plein air landscapes. Its refreshing to see an academically trained pai...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Glengairn, Aberdeenshire - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Scotland, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Glengairn, Aberdeenshire, January by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been ...
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Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Duke of Wellington
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Duke of Wellington by Vladislav Khristenko
Size of the image - 25 x 15 cm
Size of the list - 34 x 22.5 cm
Size in frame - 42 x 32 cm
Etching and aquatint on paper
#15 from edition ...
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2010s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Klosters - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Switzerland, Mountains, Hüreli, Skiing
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
The Hüreli, Klosters, Switzerland by His Majesty King Charles III (created when he was HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales) - Hand Si...
Category
1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
19th century color lithograph scientific bird animal print hawk tree leaves egg
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sparrow Hawk" is an original color lithograph by an unknown American artist. It depicts a bird perching on the limb of a tree, its young poking out of th...
Category
1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
A set of Biblical prints after the Dutch painter and engraver Gerard Hoet
By Gerard Hoet
Located in London, GB
The present collection is a set of 131 prints after Gerard Hoet, the Dutch golden age painter and engraver, depicting various biblical scenes. Hoet was a leading artist in the Classicizing Dutch Academic style, and his work is defined by history paintings, with a particular interest in mythological, classical, historical, and biblical scene, in particular Old testament scenes...
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Early 1700s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Black and White, Engraving
Sandringham - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Royal Homes, Sandringham House
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Sandringham by HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associated with the artworks of HRH The P...
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1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Balmoral - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Royal Homes, Balmoral Castle, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Balmoral by His Majesty King Charles III (formerly known as HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales) - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associated with the artworks of HRH The Prince of Wales for over 25 years. Anna Hunter, gallery owner, wrote a handwritten letter to the Prince asking him if he would consider making signed lithographs from his beautiful watercolours which could
be sold in aid of his charities. The gallery subsequently worked with the Prince for over 10 years publishing some 18 different editions and raising over £4million for the Prince’s Charitable Foundation.
Lithographs were made from the Prince’s original watercolours under the guidance of Stanley Jones – a celebrated printmaker who had previously worked with Henry Moore for 30 years, and with Elizabeth Frink, David Hockney and others. Each one is hand-signed.
“…One thing I have discovered in the course of my painting efforts is that Balmoral Castle...
Category
1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Highgrove - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Royal Homes, Highgrove House, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Highgrove by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associate...
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Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Windsor Castle - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Royal Homes, Architecture
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Windsor Castle by HM King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associated with the artwo...
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1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Windsor Castle North Aspect - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Royal Home, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Windsor Castle by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be asso...
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1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Overlooking Wadi, Saudi Arabia - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Mountains, Asir
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Overlooking Wadi, Asir Province, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia by His Majesty King Charles III, (created when he was HRH The Prince of Wales) - ...
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Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Hong Kong from HMY Britannia - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Union Jack,
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Hong Kong From HMY Britannia by HM King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associated ...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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