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.
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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Academic
19th Century British watercolour of Dartmoor ponies by Walter Bothams
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Walter Bothams (British, 1850 – 1914)
Dartmoor ponies
Watercolour on paper
Signed and dated ‘ W Bothams 84’ (lower right)
10.1/4 x 8in. (26 x 20.3 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Sketch of man by Otto Vautier - Pencil on paper 22x45 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Stamp of the workshop of O. Vautier
Dimension of the passe-partout framing 52.5 x 38 cm
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Portrait of a man by Hans Berger - Drawing 44x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Ed: 1 /100
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Crayon
Four Season Extraordinary Set of Italian Stone Caryatids Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
Four Caryatids sculptures with classically draped figures and their distinguishing symbols. Autumn, winter, spring and summer. Measures: Height wi...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
Landscape by Henri Fehr - Drawing 20x30 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
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 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
Landscape by Paul Mathey - Pencil on paper 30x43 cm
By Paul Mathey
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
At Paulette's by M. Opériol - Drawing 32x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canton paper
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
Lively alley by Pierre Duc - Watercolor
By Pierre Duc
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on arch paper
Black wooden frame with glass pane
87 x 67,5 x 1,5 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
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
Portrait of a lady by Stephanie Guerzoni - Pastel on paper 38x51 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper sold with frame (white wooden frame with glass). The total size with frame is 46,5 x 56,5 cm
Stéphanie Guerzoni is a Swiss and Italian painter born April 15, 1887 in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pastel, Crayon
Dame Elizabeth Frink, large British watercolour and pencil drawing of an Osprey
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink CH DBE RA (British, 1930 – 1993)
Osprey
Watercolour and pencil on paper
Signed and dated ‘Frink 69’ (lower right)
29 x 39.1/2 in. (73.7 x 100.3 cm.)
View wo...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
In evening dress by Henri Fehr - Sketch 50x70 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
"In surprise" by Henri Fehr - Drawing 36x27 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Charcoal
Young woman sitting
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Study of a young girl by Henri Fehr - Drawing 50x70 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Portrait of a man by Hans Berger - Drawing 38x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Engraving
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
"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
Anatomy Drawings of a Horse - Original French Artwork Equestrian Anatomy Study
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Anatomy of a Horse
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original drawing stuck on card in blue folder/ thick paper, unframed
top drawing: 7.25 x 9...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Young woman in evening dress" by Emile Hornung - Drawing 43x57 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Sketch of Pierrot tuning his guitar on the back of the artwork
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
Panorama of The Minaret - Orientalist Gouache 1882
By Paul Pascal
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
PASCAL Paul (1832-1903)
View of the Minaret
Orientalist Gouache signed low right and dated 1882
Old glassed frame gilded with leaves
Dim gouache : 51 X 70 cm
Dim Frame : 71 X 90 cm
...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache
Anatomy of a Horse - Original French Artwork Equestrian Anatomy Study
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Anatomy of a Horse
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original drawing stuck on card in blue folder/ thick paper, unframed
size: 14.5 x 9.25
ove...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
Pair Italian Limestone Garden Sculptures with Cornucopia
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in limestone with Cornucopia associated with the harvest, prosperity, or spiritual abundance. Excellent condition.
Measurements: Statue cm 160, ba...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
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
Sketch of man in suit by Otto Vautier - Drawing on paper 12x20 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Stamp of the workshop of O. Vautier
Dimension of the passe-partout framing 52.5 x 38 cm
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
"Dressing" by Otto Vautier - Pencil on paper 19x12 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Stamp of the workshop of O. Vautier
Dimension of the "passe partout" frame 52.5 x 38 cm
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Jungle by the River - Original Old painting
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
VON PLESSEN Willy (1868-1937)
Jungle by the River - Probably from old german colonies in Africa
Oil on wood signed low left
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 62 X 50 cm
Dim ...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Young woman Drawing on paper 23x32 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Monogram L.T.C.
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
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
"Take off" by Otto Vautier - Pencil on paper 11x17 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Stamp of the O. Vautier workshop
Dimension of the passe partout frame 52.5 x 38 cm
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Pensive young woman by Emile Hornung - Pastel on paper 37x29 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Sketch on the back of the work
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
British, early 20th Century oriental scene by female artist Katie Blackmore
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Katie Blackmore (British, 1890 – 1957)
Oriental fantasy
Ink and gouache on paper
Signed ‘K Blackmore’ (lower right)
9 x 8.3/8in. (22.8 x 21.2 cm.)
A Scottish figurative and decorative artist, Katie Blackmore was closely associated with both Jessie Marion King...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Paper, Gouache
17th Century map of Cumberland, UK by Robert Morden
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Robert Morden (British, circa 1650 – 1703)
A map of Cumberland with hand colouring
An engraving
14.1/4 x 16.5/8 in. (36.5 x 42.5 cm.)
Category
17th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
19th C. German painting of figures at a waterfall in the manner of Friedrich
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A very romantic and detailed painting of figures enjoying the views of a waterfall in summertime, Europe
Circle of Caspar David Friedrich (Germ...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
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
Chinese, 21st Century oil painting, study of marble statue and birds, in golds
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Shiquan Zou (Chinese, born 1965)
Study of a marble statue in classical drapery
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘Zou Shi Quan 2020 UK’, further signed in Chinese (lower right)
39.3/8 x 31.1/2 in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
View of old Lausanne by Ch. François Villermet - Work on paper 31x48 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
48 x 64 x 1 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Dancer by Henri Fehr - Drawing 50x35 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Venus Cast - Figurative Painting Colors Black Purple White Yellow Grey
By Lyubena Fox
Located in Sofia, BG
"Venus cast"
Oil on canvas
(The painting is unframed 70 x 50 cm.)
The Painting’s Qualities
Lyubena Fox’s paintings are painted in several layers, using both the transparent and opaque qualities of oil paint. Each layer is applied after the previous has dried which makes the painting withstand time. It also creates a glowing, three-dimensional effect, which is due to the different layers showing though each other. These paintings are painted following the logic of how the eye perceives: seeing the details in the context of the form. To create a fulfilling experience, the images are composed of places, full of detail for the eye to explore and places where the eye can rest.
“The impressions of Lyubena's paintings on the viewer is so mighty, mesmerizing, grand, that it paralyzes the imagination with its realistic perfection.
Her paintings bring emotion of drama, mystery, love, desire and energy, represented by the vast creative power of her talent.”
Bio
Lyubena Fox was born in 1994 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
2013 she graduated from the National school of fine arts Bulgaria, specializing in illustration. The same year she moved to Florence, Italy to study painting with John M. Angel and in 2016 graduated from Angel Academy of Art Florence, after which she studied with Alessandro Dari.
2017 she has two solo exhibitions in Sofia.
2018 Lyubena has three of her paintings qualified as ARC finalists and later in May studies painting with her favorite contemporary painter Roberto Ferri...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dance school by Benjamin II Vautier - Drawing 33x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
49,5 x 63 x 2 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pencil
Louis Charles Auguste Couder (1789-1873) Portrait of a young man, signed pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Charles Auguste Couder (1789-1873)
Portrait of a young man
signed on the right border
Pastel on paper
28.5 x 21 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame : 48 x 40.5 cm
Augu...
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
First Battle Between The puritans And the Native Americans, Oil on Canvas 1874
Located in Paris, FR
Our painting represents a military scene — an event during the war between European settlers and Native Americans.
Oil on canvas, signed and dated at the bottom right :
Imogene Robinson Morrel- PARIS 1874
American School XIXth century
Imogene Robinson was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the 19th century. She studied art at the age of 16 in Newark New Jersey, then in New York City. In 1856, Robinson went to Europe for the first time. She studied under Adolf Schroeder and Wilhelm Camphausen in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Then, Europe called to her again. She went with a friend, Elizabeth Gardner. In July 1864, they arrived in Paris and made a living copying great works from the Louvre and Luxemburg museums for American patrons. The two artists were in close contact with the colony of American artists in Paris, but they likewise befriended French painters Meissonnier and Bouguereau. In 1869, Imogene Robinson married Colonel Abraham Morrell. In 1871, Gardner moved into her last place, 73 rue des Petits Champs and became neighbors with Bouguereau. Several years later, in 1895, she married him.
As long as we can follow her official path to the Salons of 1868 and 1869, her entrée as the first woman at the Academy Jullian in 1873, we observe that Robinson Morrell did not participate in the Parisian art demonstrations. She studied portraiture and landscapes under François–Louis Français (1814-1879), and took certain courses taught by Thomas Couture (1815-1879), the last historical painter of the second half of the 19th century. Couture received many students, most notably Americans including Hunt and Longfellow. It was during this period that Imogene Robinson Morrell began her great historical compositions and painted our version of the First battle between the puritans...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas
Town Hall Square By Barthélémy Marc Bodmer - Engraving
Located in Geneva, CH
Engraving on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
62 x 50 x 2 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Isidore Pils (1813-1875) An Orientalist scene, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Isidore Pils (1813-1875)
An Orientalist scene
Signed lower left
Pencil and heightenings of watercolor on paper
15 x 24 cm
paper yellowed by time, stains and a small repaired tear on the upper right edge.
In a modern mount 40.5 x 53 cm
Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1815–1875) was a French academic painter of religious and military subjects.
Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years.
In 1831 he became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under François-Édouard Picot.
He competed for the Prix de Rome, which he won in 1838 for a history painting, St. Peter Healing a Lame Man at the Door of the Temple.
Although in poor health, Pils then spent the customary three years at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, which then had Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres as its director. While in Italy he visited Naples, Venice, and Florence.
Pils's earlier paintings have religious themes. In 1849 he completed his most famous work, Rouget de L'Isle Singing La Marseillaise, which now resides at the Musée historique de Strasbourg. After experiences travelling with French troops through the Crimea, his themes took on military and nationalistic subjects. He later produced many military scenes during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Pils was appointed professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863 but left the same year for two years in Algeria. In 1868 he was elected to seat #14 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Among his students were Adrien Moreau...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Family scene, children dog and pup, French painting by Delacroix' prodigy friend
Located in Norwich, GB
A sweet and intimate family scene by the rarest of artists: French early 19th Century child prodigy Henri-Louis-Hippolyte Poterlet (1804-1835).
Poterlet was a close friend and confi...
Category
1820s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dahlias by Roger Delapierre - Oil on canvas 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Roger Delapierre was born in Geneva in 1935. ... Roger Delapierre's painting has reached full maturity and the success of his exhibitions has proven i...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Hercules Italian Stone Sculpture of Classical Torso with Base
Located in Rome, IT
This reproduction of a classical Hellenistic sculpture of Hercules .
A timeless piece for interior and a garden decoration.
We can raise with a base on request .
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
A 1930s drawing of a young girl in a blustery windy day with autumn leaves
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Elsa Carlander (British, circa 1930)
An autumn gust
Watercolour and pencil on paper
Signed and inscribed ‘Best wishes from Elsa Carlander’ (lower right)
6.5/8 x 5.7/8 in. (16.8 x 15 ...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Nymph of Eurydice - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943)
Nymph of Eurydice
Original lithograph enhanced in pastel
Printed signature in the plate
On light cream tinted vellum 40 x 24,5 cm (c. 15,7 x 9,6 inch)
I...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Anatomy Drawing of a Horse - Original French Artwork Equestrian Anatomy Study
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Anatomy of a Horse
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original drawing stuck on card in blue folder/ thick paper, unframed
drawing: 11.75 x 14.5...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Color Pencil, Pencil, Watercolor, Crayon
GRISAILLE 19th Century - Cherubs asleep
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GRISAILLE 19th Century (anonymous)
Cherubs asleep
Part of "Rococo Style" made famous by François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
Oil on canvas Circa 1850
Old frame re-gilded
Dim canvas : 33 X ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Pair Italian Limestone Garden Sculptures with Cornucopia
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in limestone with Cornucopia associated with the harvest, prosperity, or spiritual abundance. Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto.
Measur...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
Attributed to Rochegrosse, French 19th Century figurative oil painting
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (French, 1859 – 1938)
A majestic reception on the silk road
Oil on canvas
17.3/4 x 31.1/2 in. (45.2 x 80 cm.)
Abandoned by his father as a c...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), Three studies of horses, original signed Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
Three studies of horses
16 x 10 cm
Pen and ink on paper
Signed lower left
The third study on the lower right has been ...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Ink
George Frederic Watts 'Get thee beyond me, Satan', 19th Century British drawing
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
George Frederic Watts OM RA (British, 1817 – 1904)
Get thee beyond me, Satan
red chalk on paper
10.5/8 x 8.1/2 in. (27 x 21.5 cm.)
Provenance: From the...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Italian Limestone Garden Sculptures of Aria a Roman Goddness
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in Lecce limestone of Aria a Roman Goddness .
Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto.
Measurements: Statue cm 160, base cm 85.
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
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