Academic Art
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.
Find a collection of academic paintings, sculptures, prints and more art on 1stDibs.
Style: Academic
Color: Beige
Flower Arrangement - Original 19th Century Painting
By Achille Théodore Cesbron
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Achille Théodore CESBRON (1849-1915)
Flower Arrangement
Oil on oval canvas signed low right
Framed by Gault (Paris - Fbg St Honoré)
Dim canvas : 63 X 48 cm
Dim frame : 79 X 64 cm
Achille Théodore CESBRON (1849-1915)
French school 19th-20th century
Born the 5th of November 1849 in Oran (Algeria). Dead the 4th of January 1915.
Painter of genre scene, portraits, still life, flowers, pastel.
Pupil of Bonnat and Cormon, he regularly exhibited at the « Salon des Artistes Français », whose he became shareholder in 1883, getting several rewards and medals from 1882 to 1886.
He has got the Marie...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Marble Sculpture of Roman Mythological subject Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in white Carrara marble of Apollo head .
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
" At The Port" 19th Century Academic Realist Landscape Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Jacksonville, FL
"Sunrise on the Shore" by Andreas Schelfhout stands as a testament to the extraordinary talent of the Dutch artist, born in The Hague in 1787. A prominent figure of the Romantic move...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Venice, Coastal, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Venice
Size: 12" x 16.5" x 0.8'' inc...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening View, Coastal Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Evening View,
Size: 11" x 14" x 0.8...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Breeze, coastal, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Morning Breeze,
Size: 9" x 13.5" x ...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowering Iris & Other Botanicals: Framed 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "I. Spatula foetida - II. Caucalis Dodonei - III. Cruciata", depicting three flowering plants, including an Iris, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful hand-colored botanical engraving is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a French mat...
Category
Mid-17th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Original "Locomotive a Vapeur, Typoe 141 P" vintage railroad poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: LOCOMOTIVE A VAPEUR. Type 141 P.
Artist: A. Bouvry and Albert Brenert Horizontal railway poster that has been archival linen backed, ready to frame. Very go...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Le Puy En Velay, SNCF vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Admiring the Original "Le Puy En - Velay" Vintage Poster The exquisite vintage poster for the old city of Le Puy En - Velay has inspired many art aficionados. ...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape in Provence Watercolor Painting by Francois Pascal
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely watercolor painting on Arches paper features a landscape view in Provence. This typical Mediterranean country house in the south of France has a veranda and the Saint Vic...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Leopard-cat
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of a leopard-cat
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
John II, Count of Hainaut Holland & Zeeland (1247-1304)
Located in Sydney, NSW
18th Century (c1740) etching/engraving , John II, Count of Hainaut Holland & Zeeland (1247-1304)
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
LAURENS French romantic Drawing 19th century pencil Departure children mountain
Located in PARIS, FR
Jules LAURENS Carpentras (Vaucluse), 1825 - Saint-Didier (Vaucluse), 1895 Pencil 29 x 23 cm (36 x 30 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left "JL / 52" Modern frame Excellent condi...
Category
1850s Academic Art
Materials
Pencil
Clouded Leopard
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of a Clouded leopard
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
One Day In The Spring
Located in Seoul, KR
Furry friends always stay around us and bring joy and happiness.
A Young Lee uses powder pigments and Jangji (Korean Paper) that maximize the depiction of soft fur and a warm feeling...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Pigment, Mulberry Paper
Reptiles
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of reptiles
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Nice To Meet You
Located in Seoul, KR
Furry friends always stay around us and bring joy and happiness.
A Young Lee uses powder pigments and Jangji (Korean Paper) that maximize the depiction of soft fur and a warm feelin...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Found Objects, Pigment, Mulberry Paper
Innamorati
By Emilio Greco
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Innamorati (eng. Lovers). Original drypoint, 1982. Edition of 90 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Emilio Greco is one of the greatest sculptors, engraver and medalist of modern time. He is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures of the human figure. The sculptures and figures in graphics, primarily female nudes and portraits, tended to be refined, with elongated forms in the Italian...
Category
1980s Academic Art
Materials
Drypoint
“The Fisherman’s Cottage”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a classic fisherman’s cottage on the water with a dory nearby.. Signed lower left and dated 1923. Condition is very good. The artwork is ho...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
The walk in Luxembourg Garden in Paris, also called "The Privileged"
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
After Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910)
The Walk in Luxembourg Garden" in Paris, also called "The Privileged"
The original dated 1855 is preserved at The Louvres Museum
Oil on canvas signed ...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Le pont de Saint Gérmain de Couilly (sur le Grand Morin)
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited:
Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1879 (no. 647)
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Countryside by A. Ecuyer - Gouache on paper 30x37 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on ark paper
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache
Original Concours de L'Art a L'Ecole vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
l 'Art l'Ecole (3 Children in Garden). Original French vintage poster.
Artist: G Rochette. Concours de L'art a L'Ecole, 1931. Archival linen b...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving of Flowering Tulip & Wild Garlic Plants
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Tulipa viridiscoloris, Fritillaria iuncifolns, Allium Vrsinum" depicting flowering tulip, fritillary and wild garlic plants fro...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
'Harvest Time', Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, London Royal Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'H. Hammond' for Horace Murray Hammond (British, circa 1879-1966) and dated 1921.
A luminously painted, bucolic view of harvest time in England with the lilac of the evening casting a soft light over the contented horses and loaded hay-cart, as the harvesters come to the end of their day's labors.
Son of the noted landscape painter, Robert John Hammond, Horace Hammond was born and raised in Warwickshire. In 1927, he moved, first to Worcestershire and then to London. Over the course of a long and successful career, Hammond exhibited widely, including at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at London's Royal Academy, among numerous other locations. A well-listed painter...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache, Watercolor
At the Camp (Academic Figurative Painting of Young Male Hunter by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas of a young man undressing in a rural camp setting with a mountain landscape in the distance
"At the Camp", Painted by Mark Beard as ...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lying naked woman" by Emile Hornung - Pastel on paper 65x49 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on watercolor paper
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Pastel
“Morning”
Located in Southampton, NY
Drypoint original etching on archival paper by the well known American artist, Morris Henry Hobbs. Circa 1935. Signed in pencil by the artist bottom right margin. Titled “Morning” ...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Early 20th Century French crayon drawing of a group of young people
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmund Dulac (French, 1882 – 1953)
A welcome refreshment
Black crayon with a touch of white chalk
Signed ‘E Dulac’ (upper right)
8.7/8 x 11 in. (22.5 x 28...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Chalk, Paper, Crayon
'Dancer in Seated Gesture 2, ' by James Cobb, Chalk and Conté on Paper, 2021
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 11.25 x 15.25 work on paper features a lone, seated, female dancer viewed from the back. The figure is twisting toward the viewer as she begins to look over her right shoulder. Her legs are pulled toward her body with the left leg crossed over the right. The isolation of the seated figure within the ground of the page lends a vulnerable quality to the work.
The 16 x 20 dark brown mat has a window size of 11.25 x 15.25.
Bio:
Jim Cobb, until recently was hanging his work on Canyon Rd in Santa Fe, New Mexico. One-man shows have been hosted in Taos, New Mexico, Norman, Oklahoma and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. When the Oklahoma Art...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Conté, Paper, Chalk
“European Village”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper laid down to heavy card stock by the American artist, Edward Loyal Field. The watercolor is of a European scene, perhaps Holland when the artist...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Diptych of a mother and her daughter by Elisabeth De Stoutz - Watercolor 24x40
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Framing possible
Pour Elisabeth DE STOUTZ (1854-1917)
Swiss artist famous on our different auction house
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Marines - Boats are Leaving for Fishing in Brittany
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GILBERT Pierre-Julien (1783-1860)
Marines - Boats are Leaving for Fishing in Brittany
Two Oils on wood panels in pair signed both low right
Old frames re-gilded with leaves
Dim wood ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Geneva countryside and Lake Bienne, Switzerland by Pierre Desaules drawing 20x29
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
1960s Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Cowgirl
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Charcoal
“Man with Magic Show”
Located in Southampton, NY
China Trade aquatint engraving. The plate was engraved by Dadley in London after drawings by Pu Qua of Canton and published in 1799 by W. Miller of Bond Street in London. Sight size 11.5 by 9.5 inches. Under glass. Silver leaf frame with wear consistent with age. Overall framed measurements are 13.5 by 11.5 inches. Not examined out of frame. Borghese label verso. Provenance: Sarasota collector.
Inscriptions read as follows:
Pu-Qua. Canton. Delin.
Dadley, London, Sculpt.
Published May 4, 1799, by W. Miller, Old Bond Street, London.
John Dadley...
Category
1790s Academic Art
Materials
Aquatint
“View of Switzerland”
By John William Casilear
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on fiberboard painting of a view of Switzerland done by the American artist, John William Casilear. Signed with monogram lower left. Condition is excellent. Circa 1857/1858. The painting is housed in a contemporary frame. Overall framed measurements are 6 5/8 by 8 5/8 inches. lProvenance: Long Island, New York collector.
Biography
John William Casilear was born in New York City on June 25, 1811. Like his fellow Hudson River School landscapists Asher B. Durand and John F. Kensett, he worked as an engraver before turning to painting. In 1826 Casilear was apprenticed to the engraver Peter Maverick (1780-1831), and at first he primarily executed bank notes. Durand encouraged him to attempt other subjects, however, and during the 1830s he madeengravings after some of the most prominent paintings of the day, including Daniel Huntington's The Sybil (New-York Historical Society). In 1832 he began submitting engravings to the National Academy of Design exhibition and he first showed paintings there in 1836. In 1833 Casilear was elected an Associate of the Academy; he was elevated to full Academician status in 1851.
In 1840 Casilear accompanied Durand, Kensett, and another painter, Thomas P. Rossiter (1818-1871), on a trip to Europe. There the artists studied and copied paintings...
Category
1850s Academic Art
Materials
Fiberboard, Oil
Portrait pour Torca by Alexandre Blanchet - Charcoal on paper 44x58 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Charcoal on paper without frame
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal
"Epesses, Switzerland" by Monique Monod - Pencil and watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Silver wood frame with glass pane
36 x 46 x 1,5 cm
Category
1960s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Original 1917 Railroad Map of Washington State railway map
Located in Spokane, WA
This is an Original Lithograph Vintage Railroad Map of Washington State; it is not a reproduction.
“Railroad Map of Washington, 1917, The Public Servi...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Flowering Feverfew Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Matricaria Flore Simplici, Matricaria Flore Pleno, depicting flowering Feverfew and Double-flowered Feverfew plants, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. The feverfew plant is also known as featherfew, featherfoil, or bachelor’s buttons...
Category
1640s Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Painting 19th century French School Genre Scene Interior Portrait
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French School 19th century
Close to François Xavier FABRE (1766-1837)
The Princess and The Chaperone
Oil on canvas
One can read on the reverse "Fabre Fecit" and the name and address of the canvas dealer shop...
Category
1850s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Young woman lying on the sofa
Located in Genève, GE
Stamp of the workshop lower right
Work on paper
Golden wood frame with glass pane
35.5 x 41 x 3.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
'Female Nude Figure Study, ' by John Fenton, Drawing on Paper
By John Fenton
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 23.5" x 19.5" drawing of a seated female nude depicts the figure in a frontal pose leaning forward with one leg raised and elbow placed on her kneecap. Her head rests in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Conté
Small Baboon Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Small Baboon Antique print
Matt size 28cm x 21cm
Image Size 16cm x 10 cm
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Peppermint Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Pulegium Cervinum, Pseudo Pulegium Struthium, Pulegium Regium", depicting flowering Peppermint, Weld and Pennyroyal plants res...
Category
1640s Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Fisherman Boats on the Scheldt - Original Etching
Located in Paris, FR
Carel Nicolaas STORM VAN'S GRAVENSANDE
Fisherman Boats on the Scheldt
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On laid paper, 26,5 x 38 cm (c. 10,4 x 14,9 inch)
Excellent co...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Etching
Initial Letters "M" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic endeavor by Owen Jones. Teaching Applied Arts at the South Kensington School of Design, Jones honed his skills at transforming historical design into contemporary brilliance. Never imitating or duplicating, he remained true to the times and the materials available. Like his fellow artists, architects, painters, and poets, he was on the cusp of change. In Jones’ lifetime a new aesthetic would develop. By the centuries’ end, it would become an era with a heightened sense of nature coupled with design. The phrase ‘Art...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Marble Sculpture of Roman Mythological subject Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in white Carrara marble of Apollo head .
Measurements: Statues cm 150, base cm 85.
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
The Swiss by Otto Vautier - Drawing 31x24 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor
“Flower Seller, Notre Dame”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very nice original hand colored copper plate etching (aquatint) by the Hungarian born artist, Marianne L. Almasy. Depicts a Parisian flower girl selling her bouquets with the iconic...
Category
1980s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Jay Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of a Jay bird
Matt size 24.5cm x 29.5cm
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of John Torcapel by Alexandre Blanchet - Pastel on paper 27x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
Mrs John Torcapel by Alexandre Blanchet - Sketch 35x47 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Total dimension with the passe-partout: 63 x 48 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Portrait of a woman by Stefanie Guerzoni - Charcoal on paper 50x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal
Sketch woman portrait by Stephanie Guerzoni - Sketch on paper 26x37 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Mandrill Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Mandrill Antique print
Matt size 33.5cm x 26cm
Image Size 17cm x 11 cm
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Set of six 19th Century studies or Turkish characters by Maltese artist Preziosi
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Count Amadeo Preziosi (Maltese, 1816 – 1882)
A set of six pencil and watercolour studies or Turkish characters including street vendors, a Turkish sold...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Academic art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Academic art 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 art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Karen Darbinyan, Owen Jones, Paul Jones b.1921, and Mark Beard. 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 Academic art, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $11 and tops out at $700,000, while the average work sells for $1,444.
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