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
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
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
Oil, Canvas
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
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
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Docteur Jeckyll and Mr Hide
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
Two divine women - Pencil drawing - circa 1914
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Two divine women
Original pencil and color pencil drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in)
Very good condition, ...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Secretary in the Subway - Pencil drawing - circa 1913
Located in Paris, IDF
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
Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Pair of Drawings with Apollo And Creugante 1916'
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of classical drawings representing Apollo de Belvedere And Creugante .
Classical mythologic subjects. Timeless decoration for your interior .
Black pencil on paper . Signe...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Paper
Waterfall landscape signed Eugène Deterre, Bruges circa 1830
Located in Paris, FR
Painting, oil on panel depicting an animated landscape with river and waterfall.
Signed Deterre Eugene (1810-1842) and located Brugges.
Flemish School, circa 1830 Belgian.
WithIn ...
Category
1830s Academic Art
Materials
Wood Panel
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Il Fait Beau Là-Bas ?
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
Sitting Pretty (Pomeranian Pups)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1901' lower left
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lakeside Landscape 1839
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
DE GRAILLY Victor (1804-1887)
Lakeside Landscape
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1839 Low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 54 X 74 cm - Dim fra...
Category
1830s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Lady
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm)
Original gilt swept frame
This portrait is marked by its loose brushwork, which creates a sense of hazy nostalgia. Despite th...
Category
Late 18th Century 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
"View of Chequers Court, " Pencil & Ink by F. Trotman from Rothschild estate
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"View of Chequers Court" is an original pencil, pen, and ink drawing by Fiennes Trotman. This drawing was part of the Rothschild collection, and it fea...
Category
Early 1800s Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pencil
Lady at Dressing Table - Original Painting
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
"Lady at dressing table"
Oil on canvas signed and dated right below 1929
Old original frame gild with leaves
Dim canvas : 72 x 56 cm
Dim frame : 92 X 80 cm
ENJOLRAS Delphin (1857-...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
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
Pasture with Cows
By Rémy Cogghe
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Mouscron in the Belgian province of Hainaut, Cogghe attended the Academy of Roubaix where he studied under Constantin Mils. In 1876, Cogghe was admitted to the École Nation...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baroque Interiors of Castel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
PURRMANN, Karl (1877-1966)
Baroque interiors of Castle
Oil on wood panel signed and dated 1947 Low left
Framed by Gault (Paris)
Dim wood : 52 X 66 cm
PURRMANN, Karl (1877-1966)
Ger...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
19th century color lithograph portrait indigenous male subject feathers signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Wa-Em-Boesh-Kaa, A Chippeway Chief," is an original hand-colored lithograph by McKenney & Hall. It features a portrait of a notable Native American chief, with informational text below.
13 1/2" x 18 3/4" paper
25 5/8" x 20 1/2" frame
American lithograph publishers. Most well-known for "History of the Indian Tribes of North America," a collection of 125 images that included biographical sketches and anecdotes of principal chiefs. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans...
Category
1830s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Portrait of Young Woman with Bonnet, " Watercolor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Portrait of Young Woman with Bonnet" is an original watercolor and graphite drawing on paper by Hannah de Rothschild. This artwork features a woman in a hat holding a ring.
10" x 7" art
19" x 16" frame
Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (27 July 1851 – 19 November 1890) was the daughter of Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, née Cohen. Upon the death of her father in 1874 she became the richest woman in Britain.
During the final quarter of the 19th century her husband, the 5th Earl of Rosebery, was one of the most celebrated figures in Britain, an influential millionaire and politician, whose charm, wit, charisma and public popularity gave him such standing that he "almost eclipsed royalty." Yet his Jewish...
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Diana Goddess of the Hunt Signed B. Boschetti.
Located in Rome, IT
Grand Tour Fine Group of Sculpture in Bronze after a Louvre Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt.
Diana is represented at the hunt, hastening forward, as if in pursui...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
Biblioteca di Michelozzo a S.Marco, Firenze
Located in New York, NY
Biblioteca di Michelozzo a S.Marco, Firenze, 2009
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
The photographer is based in Florence, and is f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
C Print
Landscape With Washerwoman
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912)
Landscape With Washerwoman
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dimensions canvas : 55 X 73 cm
Dimensions frame : 70 X 85 cm
LE...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Italian Stone Garden Sculptures of Roman Mythological subject of Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in Vicenza limestone of Apollo in Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto. Timeless decoration for your interior or garden.
Measurements: St...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
Bacchanal scene with nymp and Satyrs, pencil on Paper signed and dated 1778
Located in Paris, FR
A Nymph and two Satyrs
Signed lower right "................fecit" and dated 1778
Grey wash over charcoal and brown ink, on laid paper
27 x 40.5 cm / 10.5 X 16 inches
Framed : 51 x...
Category
1770s Academic Art
Materials
Pencil
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Provencale No. 6
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & acrylic on paper + white frame
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
A Fine Orientalist Pencil and Watercolor Reclining Middle Eastern Beauty
By Francesco Ballesio 2
Located in LA, CA
Francesco Ballesio (Italian, 1860-1923). A fine orientalist pencil and watercolor heightened with gum Arabic on paper figure of "A Middle-Eastern Beauty at Rest" depicting a young ma...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"Wife of Lot"
By Robert Bodem
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Robert Christian Bodem is a sculptor of figurative work, primarily showing in bronze. He received both his Bachelors and Masters in Fine Arts in Sculpture at Boston University. Durin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
"Horse Sketch 1" study of an Alfred Munnings painting, brown and earth tones
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Horse Sketch 1" is Amy Florence's study of an Alfred Munnings painting, one of her favorite artists.
Artist Bio
Amy Florence is a London born artist working out of her studio in F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board
Biblioteca di Michelozzo a S.Marco, Firenze
Located in New York, NY
Biblioteca di Michelozzo a S.Marco, Firenze, 2009
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
The photographer is based in Florence, and is f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
C Print
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - La Cathédrale 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
Flowers
By Marius Vasselon
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
French school 19th Sketch costume canopy holder church pictorial decoration
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the 19th century
Watercolor Annotations "Porte Dais / Costume for for the church of Saint Denis"
24 x 16.5 cm
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Provencale No. 11
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & acrylic on paper + white frame
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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
Vues de Naples
Located in Paris, FR
Napolitan School, 19th century
"Views of Naples, Italy"
Oil on canvas
Sold as a pair
Each work :
Canvas: 20" high x 30" wide
Frame : 24" high x 34" wide
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BARRIER Gustave - Painting Bunch of Flowers
By Gustave Barrier
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BARRIER Gustave (1871-1953)
Bunch of Flowers
Oil on card signed upper left
Old original frame re-gilded with gold leaves
Dim card : 56 X 46 cm
Dim fr...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - L'Espoir en Rose
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 - Coup de Vent sur Colleville
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 - 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
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Chateau de Foix
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & ink on paper + white frame
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Ansouis en Luberon
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & oil onto canvas
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Wheels of Industry Past and Present, Golden Age of Illustration - Standard Oil
Located in Miami, FL
This Golden Age of Illustration painting juxtaposes modern and ancient industrial practices. Giant eclectic generators from the current ti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Gouache, Board
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
19th century color lithograph beetles nature forest tree leaves animal signed
By Louis Prang
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Stag Beetle & Longicorn Beetle" is an original color lithograph by Louis Prang. It depicts two forest-dwelling beetles. The artist signed the piece in the stone lower left. It was published by Selmar Hess in New York.
8" x 5" art
19 3/8" x 16" framed
Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – September 14, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer, publisher, and Georgist. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".
Prang's early activities in the US publishing architectural books and making leather goods were not very successful, and he began to make wood engravings for illustrations in books. In 1851 he worked for Frank Leslie, art director for Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and later with John Andrew. In 1851, he married Rosa Gerber, a Swiss woman he had met in Paris in 1846.
In 1856, Prang and a partner created a firm, Prang and Mayer, to produce lithographs. The company specialized in prints of buildings...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
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
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Versailles
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
Gallop (after Stubbs)
By Shelley Reed
Located in Bozeman, MT
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 - Instantané
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
Oil, Panel
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
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Saint Vaast la Hougue
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
A Sylvan Toilette -- ca. 1898
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Society of American Artists, New York, 1898
Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1 December 1999-15 January 2000, no. 49
Li...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Terre qui Saigne ?
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
Musei Vaticani XIV, Scala Simonetti
Located in New York, NY
Musei Vaticani XIV, Scala Simonetti 2011
Massimo Listri is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject matter allows him to control the composition of his ima...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
C Print
19th century landscape color lithograph seascape buildings cityscape houses
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chicago in Early Days" is an original color lithograph by Kurz & Allison. This piece features multiple views of the city of Chicago.
16 3/4" x 23 1/4" art
28 1/8" x 33 7/8" frame
...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
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