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
Portrait at the Painter's workshop
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Francesco Brunery (1849–1926)
Portrait at the Artist's Workshop
Oil on wood panel
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim panel : 30 X 24 cm
Dim frame : 54 X 46 cm
Francesco Brunery (1849...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Stony Brook Village
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio faithfully depicts a Long Island town, picturesque with a large white church in the background. Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earlie...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait (after Stubbs and Anon.)
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
Large & Impressive French 19th Century Oil on Canvas "The Water Carrier Lady"
By Jules Salles-Wagner
Located in LA, CA
Jules Salles-Wagner (French, 1814-1898) A Large and Impressive French, 19th century oil on canvas "The Water Carrier Lady" depicting a standing and posing young peasant girl holding ...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Venice, Canal and characters
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BIRCK Alphonse (1859-1942)
Venice, the Canal with chraracters
oil on canvas signed low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Size canvas : 51 X 60 cm - Size frame : 70 X 80 cm
BIRCK Al...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Beautiful Woman, The Coy Look - French Painting
Located in Miami, FL
If Vogue magazine existed in the late 19th century, this sitter could be on the cover. The depth of her feminine beauty and sweetness is mesmerizing. She looks at you. You look ...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Scottish early 20th Century watercolour painting of a sitting girl by Lamont
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
John Charles Lamont ARSA
(Scottish, 1894-1948)
“The sitting girl”
Pencil, watercolour, body colour and pastel Signed ‘LAMONT’ (lower-right)
23. 3/4. X 14. 3/4 in (60.5 x 37.5 cm)
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
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
British early 20th Century pastel drawing of Puck, Midsommers Night Dream
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Herbert James Draper (British, 1863-1920)
Puck
Pastel
Inscribed ”PUCK” (middle left) and further inscribed and signed `Study for Puck/ Herbert Dra...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
A Large and Impressive Oil on Canvas "La Place Sainte Gudule, Brussels"
Located in LA, CA
Franz (Bernard) Gailliard (Belgian, 1861-1932) "La Place Sainte Gudule a` Bruxelles Apre`s Le Carnaval" A fine and large oil on canvas depicting a street scene in late 19th century B...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Vue du château de Versailles depuis la place d’Armes
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR
Henry Tenré received a solid training in Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre’s studio at the Julian Academy from 1875 to 1885. Then he studied under the multi-medallist landscape pa...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
"Self Portrait Sketch" Early conte crayon drawing, head of Ben Fenske, unframed
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An early work on paper, by American Impressionist painter, Ben Fenske. It's rare to see a drawing like this from Fenske, especially of a self portrait. Fenske uses classical draftin...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Conté
Summer
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Royal Academy, London, 1880, no. 355 (as Summer)
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Father and children in front of TV - Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
John Falter arranges figures and faces in a way that rival the old masters in their compositional perfection. And he makes it look easy. The expressions are captured so the emotions of the story come alive. This Golden Age of illustration artist depicts fathers and children watching...
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$140,000 Sale Price
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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, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Conté, Crayon
20th Century drawing of William Docker Drysdale by Gilbert Spencer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gilbert Spencer RA, RWS, NEAC (British, 1892-1959)
Portrait of William Dockar Drysdale
pencil
Signed and dated `Gilbert Spencer/ 1949’ (lower right)
15...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Pretending (Lunch from the Café)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1910' lower right
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting 19th Century Venice, Canal, Characters
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
ALLEGRE Raymond (1857-1933)
Oil on wood panel signed low left
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim wood panel : 54 X 84 cm
Dim frame : 178 X 108 cm
ALLEGRE Raymond (1857-1933)...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Torah Scholar, Shimshon Holzman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986)
Title: Torah Scholar
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Size: 13.75 x 19.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed...
Category
1960s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
$2,000 Sale Price
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Glengairn, Aberdeenshire - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Scotland, British
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Glengairn, Aberdeenshire, January by His Majesty King Charles III - Hand Signed Limited Edition Lithograph.
Belgravia Gallery has been ...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Transmutations: A Study of Systems Substitution, Painting by Mary Fish
By Mary Fish
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mary Fish
Title: Transmutations: A Study of Systems Substitution
Year: 1980
Medium: Ink and Tempera on Paper, signed
Size: 33.5 x 56 in. (85.09 x 142.24 cm)
Category
1980s Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Tempera
The Ladies and the Dove
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BARON Dominique (19th Century)
The Ladies and the dove
Oil on canvas signed Low Right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 59 X 75 cm
Dim frame : ...
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Charcoal portrait of a young girl - Heinrich Axenfeld (1824 -1895)
Located in Gent, VOV
Discover this magnificent charcoal drawing by
Heinrich Axenfeld
, a 19th-century artist (1824-1895) renowned for his talent in both realistic and poetic portraiture.
This delicate...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal
A French 19th-20th Century Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand Player Smoking Pipe"
Located in LA, CA
Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Fine and Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand", depicting a joyous seated man, smoking a pipe, showing his Poker hand of cards. Within a carve...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Courtship and The Shepherd's Family (a pair)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
19th Century Dutch
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
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
Antique Bronze Bust of a Provincial French Woman C. 1882 by Émile Guillemin
Located in New York, NY
By Émile-Coriolan-Hippolyte Guillemin (French, 1841-1907)
A lively bust of a young french woman; dynamically sculpted with an adorable upturned smile and glimmering eyes, in a chemi...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Praying in the Desert by Rudolf Ernst, 19th Century Oil on Panel
By Rudolf Ernst
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Rudolph Ernst’s Praying in the Desert is a masterful example of Orientalist art, showcasing the artist's profound ability to blend intricate detail with an atmosphere of serene spiri...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
French School 18th Century - Seaside Landscape With Roman Ruins and Galleon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French School 18th Century
In the taste of Joseph VERNET (1714-1789)
Seaside Landscape with Roman Ruins and Galleon
Oil on canvas
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 61 X 73...
Category
Late 18th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maiden with hat
Located in Roma, RM
Luigi Preatoni (Novara 1845 - ?), Maiden with hat
Marble bust 66 x 43 x 36 cm signed (L Preatoni) on edge of dress.
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Marble
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
Le pont de Saint Gérmain de Couilly (sur le Grand Morin)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1879 (no. 647)
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pretending (The Great Performance)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1890' lower right
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Landscape of the Valley in French Normandy
By Eugène Jules Delahogue
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
DELAHOGUE Eugène Jules (1867-c1930)
" Landscape of the Valley"
Oil on canvas signed low right Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 91 X 150 cm Dim frame : 110 X 172 cm
DELAHOGUE Eu...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
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
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
Nude Women with Resting Minotaur - Neutral White Oil Canvas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil Painting of a women with a sleeping Minotaur.
Light neutral white painting by Cuban Artist Jesus Nordarse.
Oil on Canvas - 18 x 18 inches.
Oil Painting of a Love and Sacrafice...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Women with Resting Minotaur
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil Painting of a women with a sleeping Minotaur.
Light neutral white painting by Cuban Artist Jesus Nordarse.
18 x 18 inches.
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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
Painting 19th Century Fox Hunting Scene With Characters Horses and Dogs
By Joseph August Knip
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KNIP August (1819 - 1859)
Starting Fox Hunting day in Baden-Baden
Oil on canvas signed low right dated 1837
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 81 X 118 cm
Dim frame :...
Category
1830s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Miss Carolyn Edmunson
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
The art world today does not value traditional academic skills in portrait painting. If it did, this portrait would replace the childlike student-level art that is now achieving two...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape By The Mountain Stream
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape by the mountain Stream
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 94 X 113 cm
MOS...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Riva d'Arno in Florence
Located in Roma, RM
Domenico Bresolin (Padua 1813 - Venice 1890), Riva d'Arno in Florence
Oil on canvas applied to cardboard 26 x 40 cm. Not signed.
INFO: to get more information
Publications:
D. Ri...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"Rowboat in a Summer Landscape" George Bacon Wood, Pleine Air Landscape
Located in New York, NY
George Bacon Wood
Rowboat in a Summer Landscape
Signed lower left
Oil on wood panel
6 1/4 x 8 inches
Born in Philadelphia, landscape painter George Bacon Wood, Jr., studied at the ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Painting 19th Century - Horses and Carriage - Charles de Luna (1812-1866)
By Charles De Luna
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LUNA, Charles de (1812-1866)
Horses and carriage hunting
Oil on canvas signed low left and dated 1841
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 39 X 75 cm
Dim frame : 89 X 52 cm
Certificate of authenticity
LUNA, Charles de (1812-1866)
French Painter 19th century
Born in 1812 in Châlon sur Saone
Genre scenes, military subjects, Orientalism
Pupil of Léon Cogniet...
Category
1840s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Pair of Neoclassical Terracotta Bust of Emperor Caracalla and Cicero
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of 19' century Italian Marble imitation painted Terracotta .
Bust of Emperor Caracalla and Cicero .
Measurements : cm 71 H x 60
Available also a pair marble imitation colum...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Terracotta
$11,563 Sale Price
20% Off
Greek Island, Fishing Boats - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Greece, Hills, sea
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Greek Island, Fishing Boats by His Majesty King Charles III (created when he was HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales) - Hand Signed Limit...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Florentine religious figurative drawing from the 20th century front back
By Giuseppe Fraschetti
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing is signed at lower left "G. Fraschetti," or Giuseppe Fraschetti, a Florence-born artist who was a pupil of Giacomo Lolli, active mainly in Tuscany at the turn of the 19th...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Venice Laguna with Gondola
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
ADAM-LAURENS Suzanne Adrienne, aka Nanny (1861-1915)
Venice, Lagoon with gondolier
Oil on canvas signed lower left
Frame gilded with leaf
canvas size: 55 X 42 cm Frame size: 64 X 77 cm
French painter born in Crest (Drôme ) February 20, 1861 Died in 1915 Landscape...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
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
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
Wensleydale from Moorcock - Signed Lithograph, Royal Art, Yorkshire, Landscape
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Wensleydale from Moorcock by His Majesty King Charles III (created when he was HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales) - Hand Signed Lim...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life composition
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jacques DELANOY (1820-1890)
Still Life Fruits and vegetables
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1890 low left
Old frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 41 X 34 cm Dim frame : 53 X 44 ...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Theresa Rogers
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait of Theresa Rogers
Housed in a period hand carved wood frame. Some scatter minor paint loss and stretcher marks otherwise presents very well
Signature: Signed lower right
T...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
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
$7,709 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Yesterday's Love, Love can Be True. The Heart can Betray
Located in Miami, FL
Classic illustration for a romanace novel from the 1950's in England. Recently these charming works have been the source of interest and even parody. Unsigned, unframed. Vale Studi...
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache, 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 dramat...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
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