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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Style: Academic
Axel Kulle, Leather Tannery, Drawing
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This interesting late 19th-century drawing by Swedish artist, Axel Kulle (1846-1908) depicts six men at a leather tannery. They’re absorbed in their work, each with their head down.
...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17' century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramatic subject of the painting depicts th...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of woman by Gustave François - Engraving 44x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
“Waves along the Rocky Coast”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful watercolor and gouache painting of waves crashing on the rocks along the shore by the renowned American artist, Edmund Darch Lewis. Signed lower left and dated 1908. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in its original art nouveau frame recently restored. Under UV glass. Overall framed measurements are 21.75 by 33.75 inches.
Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910)
Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia on October 17, 1835 to a successful, wealthy, well-connected family. He studied with Paul Weber...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
French 19th Century oil painting of The rescue of Deianara by Emile Menard
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Emile Rene Menard (French, 1862-1930)
L`enlevement de Dejanira (The rescue of Deianara)
Oil on canvas
Signed `E R Menard’ (lower left) and inscribed with t...
Category
19th Century 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
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
19th Century French oil painting of a nymph playing pipes, a female nude
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Charles Cres (French, 1850-1907)
A Wood Nymph playing the pipes
signed and dated `Ch. Crès/ 1884’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
25.7/8 x 15.1/2 in. (65.8 x 39.4 cm.)
Charles Cres was born in Briare in the province of Loiret. As early as 1875 he exhibited at the annual Paris Salon and was subsequently awarded...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
nude drawing 59 pencil women
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Cruz Herrera (1890-1972) - Nude Drawing 59
Measurements drawing 30x22 cm.
Frame measures 50x41 cm.
Certificate of authenticity is attached.
Category
1960s Academic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
“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
“Mother and Children”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a mother and her children by the Japanese artist, Takashi Nakayama. Signed in watercolor lower left...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Summer
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited:
Royal Academy, London, 1880, no. 355 (as Summer)
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Figures on Camelback along the Nile”
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful original orientalist gouache by the well known French artist, Paul B. Pascal. Signed lower right. Circa 1885. Condition is excellent. The scene depicts figures on camelback along the Nile with pyramids in the background. Newly professionally matted and framed in antique style frame. Under glass. Overall framed 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, Archival Paper
Julius Mante (Attributed), Portrait Of A Lady, Drawing
Located in Cheltenham, GB
An enigmatic charcoal portrait of a middle-aged lady attributed to German artist Julius Mante (1841-1907). The artist has captured an expression that's deliberately tricky to deciphe...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Cowgirl
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Charcoal
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
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
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
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
At Paulette's by M. Opériol - Drawing 32x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canton paper
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
'Erika in Gesture II, ' by James Cobb, Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 21" x 19" academic drawing by artist James Cobb, 'Erika in Gesture II,' captures a female model in a standing pose. Facing away from the viewer...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Conté, Graphite
On the shores of a lake in the Austrian Alps
Located in PARIS, FR
Josef THOMA
(Vienna, 1828 - Vienna, 1899)
On the shores of a lake in the Austrian Alps
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
53 x 80 cm
1877
Josef ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Sexy Woman in a Swamp Storm - Pulp Magazine, Hispanic Artist, Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Rafael Maria de Soto y Hernandez was born February 18, 1904 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It's high drama in the swamp. Woman in the Swamp is a masterfully executed example of Pulp Art and showcases Rafael DeSoto's full command of academic painting.
DeSoto did pulp covers up until the industry's demise in the 1950s for such magazines as Adventure, Argosy, Black Mask, Captain Zero, Crack Detective, Fantastic Novels, 15-Story Detective, Fifteen Western Tales, New Detective, Smashing Detective, and Walt Coburn's Western Magazine. He also painted many covers and interior story illustrations for men's adventure magazines, such as Action For Men, Adventure, Battle Cry, For Men Only...
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Board, 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
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
A Sideways Glance
Located in Washington, DC
Signed with monogram lower right
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
'Erika in Gesture I, ' by James Cobb, Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 21" x 19" drawing by artist James Cobb, 'Erika in Gesture I,' captures the female model in a seated pose. The model is seated with her legs tuck...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Graphite
Study for Roses Du Matin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Dimensions
Framed: 13.5" x 15.5" x 2.5"; Unframed: 7.875" x 10"
Exhibited
Artist's Choice, American Legacy Fine Arts, P...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
Girl with Bouquet
Located in Washington, DC
Monogrammed lower right
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
THE SPRING
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful La Belle Epoque marble in nive vintage condition.
Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) was a French sculptor in the academic style. He was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Marble
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
Flower Gathering
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1873' lower left
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gondolier (Figurative Painting of Man in Venice by Mark Beard, Bruce Sargeant)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative oil painting of a muscular male gondolier with Venice's St. Mark's Campanile in the background
"Gondolier" painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudony...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Stream
By Philip Hermogenes Calderon R.A.
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1864' lower left
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nymphs Dancing
By Henri-Pierre Picou
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
PICOU Henri Pierre (1824-1895)
Nymphs Dancing
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1881 low left
Old frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 62 X 82 cm
Dim frame : 80 X 100 cm
PICOU Henri Pierre (1824-1895)
French Painter 19th century
Born on February 27th, 1824 in Nantes - Died on July 17th, 1895 in Nantes
Painter of History, allegorical subjects, genre paintings, Symbolist.
Pupil of Paul Delaroche...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Children on the Beach Marine Landscape French Antique Oil Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
The setting is the French coast, on a tranquil summer's evening. Clouds are drawing in, the sky is turning dusky pink and purple, but there is still time left for play, for the children on the beach...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
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
A. Costa Woman original Figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD.
He was f...
Category
1960s Academic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
"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
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
Nude Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful female nude in profile. European, ca. 1920-30. Oil on canvas, 31.5 x 35.75 inches; 35.5 x 39.75 inches framed. Sign indistinctly upper right.
A few areas of paint loss (v...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Roses Arrangement
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MITTON, Mathilde (1849 - 1919)
Roses Arrangement
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 90 X 113 cm
Dim frame : 116 X 140 cm
MITTON, Mathilde (1849 - 1919) French painter 19th-20th century - Lyon School
Born in Amplepuis in 1849 - Died in Lyon in 1919
She studied with André Perrachon (1828-1909), Charbonnier and Elie Laurent...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Strawberries
By Walter Crane
Located in Florham Park, NJ
FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN:
A Posy from the Plays
Walter Crane (1845 – 1915), Illustrator
Cassell & Co., Publisher
Lithography
London, 1909
Born in Liverpool, 15 August 1845, Walter Crane first studied art in his father Thomas’ studio. After both moving to London and losing his father, Crane obtained an apprenticeship as William Linton’s engraving shop. This position exposed the young Crane to political reform which would become a major influence on his future work.
As in illustrator, Crane became part of an influential group of political and religious radical movements. A supporter of the Liberal Party, Crane was outspoken in his support of the Communard’s attempt to overthrow the French government in 1871. It is seemingly ironic that at this time that Crane’s reputation as an illustrator of children’s books began to blossom. Within a decade Crane would join his life-long friend William Morris’s Arts and Crafts...
Category
Early 1900s 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: 12 x 19 inch...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
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
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
'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
Teaching him a New Trick
Located in Washington, DC
19th Century Dutch
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ALLEGORICAL SCENE- Eugenio De Blasi - Italian- Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Allegorical Scene - Oil on canvas cm.120x90, Eugenio De Blasi, Italy, 2005.
This is his reinterpretation of a greatest old master painting "Marquise de Seignelay e Two of Her Children "by Pierre Mignard.
Pierre Mignard (1612-95) was president of the Académie, the ruling institution of French classicism...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shell of the Gods: Italian Carrara Marble, Sculpture
By Bela Bacsi
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
Description
This sculpture by Bela Bacsi was inspired by a Hellenistic marble based on...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Marble
Under the weight of the cross by Pierre Eugène Vibert - Charcoal 63x48 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Sanguine and charcoal on paper without frame
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal
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
Asiatic Lion, Lioness, Bengal Tiger, Leopard, Jaguar Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Antique Steel Engraving Published 1866 by Blackie & Son, London for "A History of the Earth and Animated Nature" by Oliver Goldsmith.
Matt siz...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
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