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
Landscape of Mountains
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape of Mountains
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 92 X 112 cm
MOSNY Henry (...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
"Self Portrait Conte Sketch" rare Ben Fenske work on paper - academic study
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A colorful self-portrait from Ben Fenske, staring at the viewer straight-on. Hues of red dominate.
Unframed.
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnesota, and has been worki...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Conté
Horse and Woman Gold Leaf Screen Print by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Horse and Woman
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x...
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Sky is the Limit
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Flowers
Located in Paris, FR
Marius Vasselon,
1841-1924
"Bouquet de Fleurs dans un Vase "
Oil on canvas,
Signed lower left
Canvas: 29 1/2" high x 23 5/8" wide
Frame: 36 1/4" high x 29 7/8" wide
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“House by the Lake”
Located in Southampton, NY
Finely executed watercolor and gouache landscape with figures by the Swiss artist, Louise Clauseau (Swiss). Signed under the mat by the artist and dated June, 1852. The watercolor ...
Category
1850s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled Portrait I (Academic Style Portrait Painting of a Young Muscular Man)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern, academic style portrait painting on canvas of a young athletic male
oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches unframed
This vertical, contemporary portrait painting of a single young m...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Portrait of a Head”
Located in Southampton, NY
Late 18th century mixed media portrait of the head of an old man, perhaps the biblical figure Moses. Italian school . Composed of graphite, colored chalk, watercolor and gouache on ...
Category
1780s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Chalk, Graphite, Watercolor
Portrait of Napoléon II
Located in New Orleans, LA
The son of the legendary Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoléon François Charles Joseph, takes a spirited stance in this remarkable oil painting attributed to the Austrian portraitist Johann Peter Krafft. Believed to have been exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, this work stands as a testament to both Austrian artistry and the legacy of one of the most powerful men in history.
After Napoléon's exile to the island of Elba in 1814, his son was seen by many of his supporters as the last hope of France. The child was named the ruler of half of Europe, holding the titles of Napoléon II...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow, drawing
By Theodore Blake Wirgman
Located in Paris, FR
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925)
Portrait of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, (1850-1919)
pen and black ink on paper,
inscribed with thename of the sitter on the verso of the sheet, now not visible under the framing
15 x 12 cm
In a modern frame 34.5 x 30 cm
Theodore Blake Wirgman (29 April 1848 – 16 January 1925) was an English painter and etcher who moved to London, studied at the Royal Academy schools, became a painter of history and genre subjects, and worked as a portrait artist for The Graphic. A number of these portraits are held at the National Portrait Gallery. Theodore Blake Wirgman was born in Belgium and died in London.
He worked from a studio at 24 Dawson Place, Notting Hill, London, and joined The Arts Club in 1892.
Wirgman was part of a group of avant-garde young artists who emulated Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Ink
Female Portrait Sketch #2
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A colorful sketch of a female bust, in the style of contemporary academic realism.
Artist Bio
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnesota, and has been working and living ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Conté
"Cormar Attacking a Spirit on the Waters, " Neo-classical Etching by A. Runciman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cormar Attacking a Spirit on the Waters" is an etching by eighteenth-century Scottish artist Alexander Runciman, signed on the lower edge of the etching, "ARunciman inv. & fecit," i...
Category
1770s Academic Art
Materials
Etching, Paper, Ink
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 Art
Materials
Woodcut, ABS
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - L'Insoutenable Légèreté
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Amour Celeste
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Luxe Calme & Volupté
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Si Versailles m'était Conté...
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Instantanné
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the Unite...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - 7eme Symphonie
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
'Venice, Santa Maria della Salute from the Cannaregio Canal', Large Venetian Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'P. G. Pallmann' for Peter Götz Pallmann (German, 1908-1966).
Displayed in a hand-rubbed, water-gilded, swept frame.
Framed D...
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Portrait of a boy 1865
By Carl Gutsch
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Carl GUTSCH (19th Century)
Portrait of a young Boy
Oil on canvas signed low right and dated 1865
Old Original frame gilded with Leaves
Dim canvas : 127 X 84 cm
Dim Frame : 157 X 114 ...
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - La Cathedrale Engloutie
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris, Boulevard Porte Saint Denis
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
FOURNIER Victor Alfred (1872-1924)
"Paris, Porte Saint Denis"
Oil on canvas signed lower right and dated 1924
Old frame gilded with leaf (fine gold)
Canvas size: 40 X 30 cm Frame size: 58 X 48 cm
FOURNIER Victor Alfred (1872-1924) French 20th century Born in Paris in 1872. Died in Paris in 1924 Painter of landscapes, seascapes, beach scenes, urban landscapes. Victor Fournier...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Kyna de Schouël - Brume Tropicale
Located in Paris, IDF
Kyna de Schouel is a French artist born in 1939 who lives & works in Cholet, France. She uses charcoal, sanguine & washing but above all oil, especially for abstract compositions. She is Chevalier du Mérite du Dévouement Français & awarded of Mérite de l’Académie Leonard de Vinci...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Floral Bouquet with Mandolin”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful floral watercolor and gouache on paper with musical instruments by the German artist, Friedrich (Frederick) Jungling. Signed lower right and dated 1908. Excellent condition...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Au Fond l'Espoir II
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Nirvana
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibi...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Leaves II, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Leaves II" is an oil painting that depicts yellow Fall leaves with a cream colored background
Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning painter with an enthusiastic international following. She developed her artistic voice through her studies at the Aristides Atelier and Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle. Elizabeth finished her education with a fellowship award (Grand Prize, 2nd Annual Utrecht Art...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Contemporary Art by Kyna de Schouël - La balade des Voiliers
Located in Paris, IDF
Kyna de Schouel is a French artist born in 1939 who lives & works in Cholet, France. She uses charcoal, sanguine & washing but above all oil, especially for abstract compositions. Sh...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jules TOULOT (1863-nc) Painting 19th century soldier uniform interior
By Toulot Jules
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Toulot Jules (1863-nc)
Pianist officer in the Second Empire period
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 65 X 43 cm
Dim frame : 90 X 67 cm
TOULOT Jules (1863-nc)
French painter 19th century
Born 11th November 1863 in Champeinx (Puy de Dôme...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Audubon Bird Wildlife Red-Tailed Buzzard
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
Birds of America
Octavo Edition
Philadelphia, 1839
New York 1856-71
Lithographs. Original Hand-Color.
6.5” x 10.25” Unframed
Born in Haiti, John James LaForest A...
Category
1830s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph, Watercolor
Gallop (after Stubbs)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Denver, CO
This Reed piece is of a horse painted on 6 separate sheets of oil paper. It is painted in the influence of the European artist Stubbs. This painting is oil on paper, and is monochrom...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - De ma Fenêtre
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Noblesse Oblige
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibi...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Secretary in the Subway - Pencil drawing - circa 1913
Located in Paris, FR
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Secretary in the Subway
Original pencil and color pencils drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in)
Good conditio...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Color Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Massimo Listri 'Walhalla - Ratisbona'
Located in New York, NY
Walhalla - Ratisbona 2003
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
39.5 x 47.5 inches
edition of 5
47.5 x 59 inches
edition of 5
71 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
C Print
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Swing des Orangés
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Reve d'Aivasovsky
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Watering the Cattle”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the American artist, Edmund Darch Lewis. Signed lower right and dated, 1891. Several small punctures which will be professionaly restored. Old reline of ca...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Rentrez chez vous Braves Gens
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Spleen Heureux
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Entrance of General Bonaparte in Cairo, 1798
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Léon Gérôme,
(1824-1904)
"Entrance of General Bonaparte in Cairo, 1798"
Bronze with medal patina
Signed on the base “GEROME” and on the back part “SIOT Fondeur Paris”
Dimensi...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
Forest Nymph - Figurative Nude Oil Painting Colors Brown Grey Pale Blue Green
By Lyubena Fox
Located in Sofia, BG
"Forrest Nymph" (2016)
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm unframed
Painting was started in 2015, most of it was finished by 2016, the last touches done in 2019. Inspired by the 19th century French painter Bouguereau, she wanted to depict a nymph that inhibits the forest, wearing a flower crown made from Hepatica flowers, wild forest flowers.
The Painting’s Qualities
Lyubena Fox...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait (after Stubbs and Anon.)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Denver, CO
This Reed piece is of a horse painted on 6 separate sheets of oil paper. It is painted in the influence of the European artist Stubbs. This painting is oil on paper, and is monochrom...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Droit au Coeur
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Avant l'Orage
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Leaves I, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Leaves I" is an oil painting that depicts yellow Fall leaves with a cream colored background
Elizabeth Zanzinger...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Les Créatures de Promethée
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Au Fond l'Espoir
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Douce France
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the Unite...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Éclaircie
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the Unite...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Kyna de Schouël - Port Espagnol
Located in Paris, IDF
Kyna de Schouel is a French artist born in 1939 who lives & works in Cholet, France. She uses charcoal, sanguine & washing but above all oil, especially for abstract compositions. Sh...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Colleville sur Mer en Hiver
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - L'Envolée Légère
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Au Feu!
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Mais où se cache le Soleil ?!
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - It's a Good Weather ?
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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