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: Brown
Woman portrait by Ilse Voigt - Oil on canvas 96x76 cm
By Ilse Voigt
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas with wooden frame. Total size with frame is 88x109 cm
Ilse VOIGT is an artist born in 1905 and died in 1997. His works have been sold at public auction 24 times, mostl...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
LANGEROCK Belgian painting landscape orientalist Egypt Cairo 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri LANGEROCK Ghent, 1830 – Marseille, 1915
Oil on canvas
46 x 37 cm (57 x 50 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right “Langerock”
Old stamp at the verso with an inscription
Beautiful...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
GOUY large pastel woman model nude breasts french painter Salon Paris 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Jeanne GOUY
(Active between 1890 and 1904)
Pastel
Signed lower right "Jeanne Gouy"
66 x 82 cm (83 x 100 cm with the frame)
Jeanne Gouy studied with the academic painter Jules Machard...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of Young Boy, Oil on Canvas Signed Felix Bryk, circa 1910
Located in Paris, FR
Lovely portrait of a young Boy standing on an armchair.
Oil on canvas signed Felix BRYK.
Swedish School, circa 1900-1910
Portraitist and ethnologist of the early twentieth century.
...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas
Hunting Leopard
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph of a Hunting Leopard
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
View over the Roof-tops of Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark
By Svend Hammershøi
Located in New York, NY
Svend Hammershoi (1873 Frederiksborg, Copenhagen 1948), View over the Roof-tops of Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, Oil on Panel, Signed: SH, in it's original frame
"Designer, painter and trained ceramicist, Svend Hammershøi was the younger brother of Vilhelm Hammershøi...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Panel, Paint, Oil
The Paris Hotel de Ville , Watercolor signed Signed E. Galien Laloue, circa 1920
Located in Paris, FR
View of Paris: The Hotel de Ville banks and the statue of Etienne Marcel under Snow
Watercolor
Signed E. Galien Laloue, circa 1910-1920
Appraisal by Mr Noé Willer.
(Will figurate in...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Winged Genius - original painting by Paula Craioveanu Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Winged Genius, oil on canvas, 70x110cm, 27.5×43.5in
Winged Genius is a fantastic character, a mythological creature, a male figure with birds’ wings, a guardian spirit, a demigod.
A ...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Still-Life With Roses and China Jewel Box
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Hortense DURY-VASSELON (1860-1924)
Still Life with Roses and China Jewel Box
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1905 low left
DIm canvas : 63 X 50 cm
Di...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Spanish painting Portrait man Trace signature Academic 19th oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Juan Pablo SALINAS (Attributed to)
Madrid, 1871 – Rome, 1946
Oil on canvas on a panel
34 x 22 cm (43 x 31 cm with the frame)
Trace of signature lower lef...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Fishermen By The Lake, Oil On Canvas, Signed Dommersen, Dutch School, 1870
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas depicting a scene of Fishermen by a lake, Dutch landscape.
Signed on the lower left corner of Pieter Cornelis Dommersen.
Painter of Dutch seas and landscapes, in Lond...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Feeding the Young
By Edmund Adler
Located in Washington, DC
A rural interior scene by Austrian artist Edmund Adler. The scene is typical of Adler's paintings of Austrian culture and rural life. It is full of gemütlichkeit.
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Painting Oil on Canvas by Joseph Badger
Located in Rome, IT
Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.
This amazing painting depicting a young boy with a bi...
Category
18th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
“Bank Notes”
Located in Southampton, NY
James Gillray (13 August 1756 – 1 June 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Many of his works are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Description:
Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with which he sweeps up notes from the counter. John is a yokel no longer bewildered. He stands stolidly, holding out his left hand for the notes, his right hand in his coat pocket. Fox (right) wears a high cocked hat...
Category
1790s Academic Art
Materials
Etching, Archival Paper
The Catacombs
Located in Sydney, NSW
19th Century chromolithograph, 1822 Paris Catacombs
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Whimbrel
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of Nuthatch Antique Print
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Goldcrest Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of Goldcrest Antique Print
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
'A Day in the Country' Dutch Scene, Oil on Linen Painting by Alyona Kostina
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This warm, realistic painting depicting a day exploring the Dutch countryside features a golden field with a stream bisecting the landscape with windmills dotting the landscape. The...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Nuthatch Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of Nuthatch Antique Print
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Nutcracker
Located in Sydney, NSW
Chromolithograph of Nutcracker Antique Print
Image Size 10.5cm x 17 cm
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Papaya and Moth Metamorphosis: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Maria Merian
Located in Alamo, CA
This exquisite hand-colored 18th century folio-sized engraving of a papaya plant and moth metamorphosis is plate 64 from Maria Sibylla Merian's publication '...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Young girl from Tetouan, Morocco
Located in New Orleans, LA
Young girl from Tetouan, Morocco
Signed (center right)
Oil on canvas
In this important oil on canvas, French Orientalist painter Charles Landelle captures the engaging visage of a young Moroccan woman in a moment of tranquil contemplation. Seated on the floor of what is almost certainly an opulent riad, the young woman wears an intricately embroidered Moroccan kaftan and headdress. The sumptuous patterns on the floor and in the background lend an additional warmth to the strikingly vivid red hues which dominate the composition and are a hallmark of Landelle’s work.
The symbols behind the young woman may represent either the Jewish Star of David or the Islamic Seal...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cherubs Musicians in pair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Mathilde LEHAUT (1816- nc)
Cherubs Musicians in oval pair
Two Oils on wood signed low
Framed by Gault (Paris) - Gold leaves
Dim wood panel (each) : 27 ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Chrysanthemums Blooming on a Terrace
Located in Washington, DC
Large oil painting of chrysanthemums by one of the most well-known 19th-century French flower painters.
Signed and dated lower right
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Persephone, 19th Century Classical French Academy Drawing
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th Century French Academy drawing of a classical maiden, signed Xavier Rendeley bottom right, numbered and dated 2nd April 1883. Presented in ...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
PLAUZEAU Painting Oil canvas French Academic Portrait of boy Early 20th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Alfred PLAUZEAU Avanton-Paché (Vienna), 1875 - Hendaye, 1918 Oil on oil 61 x 38 cm (75.5 x 52.5 cm with frame) Signed lower right "A. Plauzeau" Good condition (sevreal restoration, w...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Architecture Sketches Study Drawing, Romane Church in France by Maurice Lambert
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an oversized astonishing architectural study for the restoration of a church in a Paris suburb.
These sketches of the St Pierre church in Avon, Seine et Marne Departement, nearby Paris are for the restoration of the front porch. The drawing is made with watercolor, ink, and sepia pencil.
On the lower center bottom, you have the drawing of the porch itself, on the left side a close-up of the underside of the framework, and on the right side the same framework views from above. The top left corner shows a quoted plan of the porch.
There is a handwritten dedication on the lower right-hand corner that reads: To my old friend and pal. A warm memory of school. Sign Maurice Lambert.
The study is ornate with a classic wood frame with glass protection.
Good condition, with minor wear on the frame throughout.
Please check the last three pictures for the views of the original building.
Measurements:
With frame: 40.94 in wide (104 cm) x 27.56 in high (70 cm).
View: 38.98 in wide (99 cm) x 25.59 in high (65 cm).
Note:
Listed as a Historic Monument in 1840, the Saint-Pierre d'Avon church (77) was built in the 12th century, its bell tower in the 13th century, and the choir, and the portal in the 16th century. The charming and original awning of the porch under which Madame de Maintenon...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink, Watercolor
View of Venice
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
AUGUSTE BOUVARD 1882-1956
Pseudo : Mard ALDINE
View of Venice with characters
Oil on canvas signed low right "Aldine"
Framed by Gault (Paris Fbg St-Honoré)
Dim canvas : 50 X 65 cm
D...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Jerusalem
By Ernst Huber
Located in Jerusalem, IL
"Jerusalem view" by Austrian painter Ernst Huber. The painting with a deep perspective presents the view downward on the city in the motion. We share the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Potted daffodils - Still life oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Gilded wooden frame
70,5 x 48 x 4,5 cm
Unsigned
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Still Life Flowers and Butterfly - Painting 19th century
By Elisa-Antoinette Georget
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Elisa- Antoinette GEORGET (1842-1914)
Flowers and Butterfly
Oil on canvas signed low left
Golden wooden frame stick (new)
Dim canvas : 43 X 72 cm
Dim Frame : 65 X 94 cm
Elisa- Antoi...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
'Manolo Gonzalez' Plaza de Toros, Maestranza, Seville, Bullfighting, Matador
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'John Fulton' (American, 1933-1998) and painted circa 1995.
The original oil painting for the poster advertising the appearance of Manolo Gonzalez at the prestigious Maestranza bullring in Seville and showing famous bullfighter in an emerald suit of lights, holding his espada at the ready while deflecting the enraged bull with his red cape.
John Fulton was an American bullfighter and painter who settled in Seville. Born in Philadelphia, he received a scholarship to an art school in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in the early 1950s. During this time, he studied both painting and bullfighting, killing his first calf there in 1953. In 1954, Fulton joined the U.S. Army and continued and continued painting and bullfighting on his downtime. After his release in 1956, he moved to Spain where he studied bullfighting under Juan Belmonte and performed as a novillero (novice) with some of Spain’s leading matadors. In July 1963, Fulton was sponsored by José María Montilla to take his 'alternativa' at the Plaza de toros...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life with Thistles Watercolor Painting by Marie Benoit-Levy
Located in Atlanta, GA
Marie Benoit-Levy (France, 20th Century).
This lovely watercolor on Arches Vellum paper painting features still-life with thistles and a blue water pot, an academic design by Marie B...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Young Beauty
Located in Washington, DC
An Orientalist figurative or genre painting by Conrad Kiesel.
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Young Girl with a Dove
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Lacazette Amelie (19th)
Young Girl with a dove
Oil on canvas signed upper left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 56 X 37 cm
Dim Frame : 74 X 57 cm
Lacazette Amelie (19th) -
...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Sweet Roses
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and titled lower left
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Lady and Cupid in The Park
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
C.BRIAND
Young Lady With Cupid in The Park
Oil on canvas circa 1880 signed low right
Old Frame gilded with leaves
Size canvas : 65 X 55 cm
Size frame : 93 X 82 cm
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
'Peacock Among Magnolia', Chinese Painting in Period Gilt Frame
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Framed dimensions: 15.5 H x 13 W x 1.75 D inches
An elegant, 19th-century Chinese School gouache scroll painting fragment showing a richly-plumed peaco...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Sitting Pretty (Pomeranian Pups)
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1901' lower left
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tetbury Church - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Royal Heritage, Cotswolds, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Tetbury Church by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been honoured to be associated with ...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Venice Panoramic View
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Angelo PISANI (1885-1950)
Panoramic View from Venice
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 51 X 100 cm
Dim frame : 70 X 120 cm
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
“Bedouin Encampment at Sunset”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful orientalist original gouache by the well known French artist, Paul B. Pascal. Circa 1885. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. The scene is of a Bedouin encampment at sunset. Newly professionally matted and framed in antique style frame. Under glass. Overall measurements are 11 by 13 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate.
Paul B. Pascal (1839–1905) was a French
landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with gouache. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache
The Flower Girl - Genre Scene 18th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912)
The Flower Girl and The Puppy
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1883 low left
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dimensions canvas : 120 X 70 cm
Dimensions frame : 137 X 88 cm
LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912)
French Painter 19th-20th century
Lyon School
Born 1848 in Noirétable (Loire) - Died 11...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Composition of Roses With Lute and score
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GODCHAUX Emile (1860)
Big Composition of roses with
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 90 X 129 cm
Dim frame : 118 x 159 cm
GODCHAUX Emile (1860 - nc)
French School - 19th century - Born in 1860
Painter of genre scenes, landscapes, waterscapes, marines, flowers, still lives. He sold his paintings on the public place, and sometimes in Lotteries. He is related to Alfred Godchaux...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Summer
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited:
Royal Academy, London, 1880, no. 355 (as Summer)
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Declaration Of Love
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
COLIN François (1798-1864)
The Declaration of love
Oil on canves signed low left
Old frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 41 X 57 - Dim frame : 56 X 71 cm
COLIN François (1798-1...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait Sketch
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A portrait of a male head, in profile by BenFenske. The artist uses a variety of colors to convey a naturalist impression.
Artist Bio
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Conté
Divertimento in the Music Salon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GUIDI Giuseppe (1881-1931)
Divertimento in the Music Salon
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 70 X 100 cm
Dim frame :...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Pan and Siringa
Located in Roma, RM
Jafet Torelli (active in Florence in the second half of the 19th century), Pan and Siringa
Terracotta sculpture 54 x 22 x 22 cm signed Torelli Firenze on the base.
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Terracotta
Portrait of a Lady With Hat
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
WATELET, Charles Joseph (1867 - 1954)
Portrait of a Lady with Hat
Oil on oval canvas signed up right and dated 1909
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canv...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
A. LEONARD - Flower Girl and her Dog
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEONARD Agathon (1841-1923)
Flower Girl and Her Dog
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old Frame regilded with Leaves
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim Frame : 5...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
A Sideways Glance
Located in Washington, DC
Signed with monogram lower right
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Treasured Volume
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1879' lower right
Exhibited:
Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1880
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cat and Kitten on the Desk
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LE ROY Jules Gustave (1853 - 1922 )
Cat and Kitten on the Desk
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim frame : 58 X 50 cm
LE ROY J...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Bunch of Spring Flowers
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Albert Thibule Marie Furcy de Lavault (1847-1915)
Spring Flowers
Oil on canvas signed upper left
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 51 X 74 cm
Dim frame : 70 X 92 cm
...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Still Life, Flowers and Fruit
Located in Greenwich, CT
A stunning and dramatic still life by noted Belgian 19th century artist, David De Noter. Framed in a complimentary Empire style 22 karat hand carved frame....
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Party To The Castle in 18th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A Party To The Castle in the 18th Century
Oil on canvas with a signature G.Weiss low left
Old frame regilded
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim frame : 66 X 58 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
“Paris-London”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very nice original hand colored copper plate etching (aquatint) by the Hungarian born artist, Marianne L. Almasy. Depicts London with its double buses in the foreground and scenes o...
Category
1980s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
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