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
Set of Four Butterflies. French Watercolours on Silk Laid on Handmade Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A set of four watercolours of butterflies on silk, applied to handmade paper, with hand cut edges, by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Two are signed by the artist to the bottom righ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Silk, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil
$3,076 Sale Price
36% Off
Winter Landscape Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2018
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Winter
Size: 20" x 28" x 0.8'' inc...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School 19th Century, A Muskeeter, original pencil drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th Century
A Muskeeter
Pencil on paper
26.5 x 17 cm
Bears a signature "F. Roybet" in the lower right
In quite good condition, bears some visible foxings,
In an old mount (some damages)
(not framed)
Even if the style, execution and of course subject are those of Ferdinand Roybet...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Newfoundland with a Kitten by Otto Eerelman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Eerelman
1839-1926 Dutch
Newfoundland with a Kitten
Oil on canvas
Signed “O. Eerelman” (lower right)
This monumental painting is by the celebrated Dutch artist Otto Eerelman...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Cliffs, Seascape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Ocean Cliffs
Size: 29.5" x 39.5" x 0...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Original French Abstract Portrait
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Abstract Portrait
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 11.5 (Height) x 15.25 (Width)
Signed: No
Condition: Good
Descriptio...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Acrylic
“European Village”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper laid down to heavy card stock by the American artist, Edward Loyal Field. The watercolor is of a European scene, perhaps Holland when the artist...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Roses, Impressionism, Still Life, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Roses
Size: 19.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'' in...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Girl and the Sea, Figurative, Coastal, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2022
Style: Impressionism
Title: The Girl and the Sea
Size: 27.5" x 3...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mythological Painting begining 19th oval Bacchus Apollon children
Located in PARIS, FR
Italian school from the beginning of the 19th century ?
Oil on canvas (2) 99 x 65 cm (103 x 78 cm with the frame)
Old frames with gadroons and palmette decoration
Very good condition...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
$3,354 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair 19th Century French Whimsical Oil on Canvas "Cherubs and Putti Children"
Located in LA, CA
Charles Joshua Chaplin (French, 1825-1891) A Very Fine and Charming Pair of 19th Century French Whimsical Oils on Canvas of Cherubs and Putti, after François Boucher (French, 1703–17...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape, Post Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Signed to lower right
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2022
Style: Impressionism
Title: Landscape
Size...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses, Still Life Flowers, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Roses
Size: 23.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'' i...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Teaching him a New Trick
Located in Mc Lean, VA
19th Century Dutch
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Red Poppies and Grapes”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a circa 1920’s still life of red poppies and purple grapes. Oil on artist canvas board . Signed lower right but artis...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
27% Off
Waves, Seascape Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Seascape Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2023
Style: Impressioni...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Study for Ruth Gathering Wheat 19th Century Large Antique Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Study for Ruth Gathering Wheat
The Painting is monogrammed bottom left side
Provenance:
Notes: This is the full scale version of Ruth in Pharoah's Fields exhibited at the Royal Academy (now lost). Exhibited at the Bristol Art Museum, Birmingham UK
Private Collection, Detroit, MI
Description:
Sir Edwin Long (1829-1891) was a renowned British painter known for his historical and Orientalist artworks. Born in Bath, England, Long displayed exceptional artistic talent from an early age. He received formal training at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where he honed his skills and developed his distinctive style.
One of Long’s oil paintings...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Samantha Haring, "Enough" Oil on paper on panel
Located in New York, NY
Samantha Haring
"Enough," 2024
Oil on paper on panel
20 x 20 in.
(hari024)
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Panel
Still-Life With Roses and China Jewel Box
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Hortense DURY-VASSELON (1860-1924)
Still Life with Roses and China Jewel Box
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1905 low left
DIm canvas : 63 X 50 cm
Di...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled Man With Closed Eyes 1
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Untitled 1982 Young Man With Closed Eyes
Artist signed, and dated.
WILLIAM LUDWIG (1935-2011)
Education:
University of Connecticut, 1957-1961
Hartford Art School, University of Har...
Category
1980s Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
Italian School of the 17th Century : Saint Jerome with a Lion - Oil Painting
Located in Paris, IDF
Italy : Venetian school of the 17th century
Saint Jerome wit a Lion, circa 1620
Oil on panel
Unsigned
On wood board 49 x 30 cm
Good condition, accidents/wear (see photos)
Category
Early 17th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Landscape, Original Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Impressionism
Title: Landscape
Size: 16" x 20" x 0.8'' inch, (41x51x2cm),
Unframed, Stretched on wooden bar, Ready to Hang,
Artist Bio
Ara H. Hakobyan is an Armenian artist and art critic, Doctor of Sciences (arts, 2017), professor (2018) and a member of Artist Union of the Republic of Armenia (1999).
Ara H. Hakobyan was born in 1973 in Yerevan in the family of art historian Hravard Hakobyan. In 1997 Mr. Hakobyan graduated from the Yerevan State Academy of Arts, Department of Painting. During 1997-2000 Ara Hakobyan...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Samantha Haring "Sic Transit" Oil on paper on panel
Located in New York, NY
Samantha Haring
"Sic Transit," 2023
Oil on paper on panel
16 x16 in.
(hari020)
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Panel
Winter Day in Old Yard, Original Oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Impressionism
Title: Winter Day in Old Yard
Size: 18" x 21" x 0.8'' inch, (45x53x2cm),
Unframed, Stretched on wooden bar, Ready to Hang,
Artist Bio
Ara H. Hakobyan is an Armenian artist and art critic, Doctor of Sciences (arts, 2017), professor (2018) and a member of Artist Union of the Republic of Armenia (1999).
Ara H. Hakobyan was born in 1973 in Yerevan in the family of art historian Hravard Hakobyan. In 1997 Mr. Hakobyan graduated from the Yerevan State Academy of Arts, Department of Painting. During 1997-2000 Ara Hakobyan...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little Girl, Figurative, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2016
Style: Impressionism
Title: Little Girl
Size: 22" x 28" x 0.8'' ...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Moonlight Sail”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful, serene sepia watercolor of a moonlight sail on archival paper attributed to Robert Montgomery. Signed lower left. Condition is excellent. Re...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
$475 Sale Price
45% Off
Cows, Landscape, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Cows,
Size: 8.5" x 12" x 0.8'' in...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fly to the Sky, Original Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2018
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Fly to the Sky
Size: 20" x 28"...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Color-full Winter, Landscape Impressionism, Original Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2022
Style: Impressionism
Title: Color-full Winter
Size: 19.5" x 27.5...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
A Very Fine Orientalist Oil on Canvas "The Slave Market" a North African Scene
By Otto Pilny
Located in LA, CA
Otto Pilny (Swiss, 1866-1936) A very fine orientalist oil on canvas "The Slave Market", depicting a desert scene with the offering of two female slaves. Signed and Dated (l/r): Otto Pilny, 1910.
Canvas height: 31 1/2 inches (80 cm).
Canvas width: 47 1/4 inches (120 cm).
Frame height: 37 inches (94 cm).
Frame width: 52 inches (132.1 cm).
Previously offered at Christie's New York, 19th Century European Art, Sale 2521 on October 12...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Otto PilnyA Very Fine Orientalist Oil on Canvas "The Slave Market" a North African Scene, Circa 1910
$148,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Fall Landscape, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2018
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Fall Landscape
Size: 24" x 30" x 0...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Marines World War 1 poster. E-E-E-YAH-YIP Go over with U. S. Marines
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War One: Go Over With U.S. Marines. E-E-E-YAH-YIP. This charging leather neck holds his Springfield high. The cropped design was influenced by candid photography, ...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Wave, Coastal, Impressionism, Original Oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2018
Style: Impressionism
Title: The Wave
Size: 16" x 20" x 0.8'' inc...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Misty Morning Gloucester”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board painting of a misty morning in Gloucester Harbor by the Provincetown artist, Kay Kellogg. Signed lower left. Circa 1935. The painting d...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,900 Sale Price
32% Off
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
“Mallards 2”
By Alan Farrell
Located in Southampton, NY
Miniature watercolor painting on arches paper of a pair of mallards done by the very well known miniature artist, Allan Farrell. Exhibited at the Royal Miniature Society exhibition i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Flower Sellers, Figurative, Original Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Impressionism
Title: Flower Sellers
Size: 16" x 20" x 0.8'' inch, (41x51x2cm),
Unframed, Stretched on wooden bar, Ready to Hang,
Artist Bio
Ara H. Hakobyan is an Armenian artist and art critic, Doctor of Sciences (arts, 2017), professor (2018) and a member of Artist Union of the Republic of Armenia (1999).
Ara H. Hakobyan was born in 1973 in Yerevan in the family of art historian Hravard Hakobyan. In 1997 Mr. Hakobyan graduated from the Yerevan State Academy of Arts, Department of Painting. During 1997-2000 Ara Hakobyan...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mutine
Located in New Orleans, LA
Guillaume Seignac
1870-1924 French
Mutine
Signed “G. Seignac” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
A mischievous maiden dominates this garden scene by French Academic artist Guillaume S...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fernand de Launay (1855-1904) Portrait of a child, 1890, original drawing
By Fernand de Launay
Located in Paris, FR
Fernand de Launay (1838-1904)
Portrait of a child, probably the daughter of the artist
Lead pencil on paper
Signed and dated "4 septembre 1890" on the lower left
27 x 21 cm
In quite ...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Dance 19th-century Large Antique Nude Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed & Dated
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Exhibited at the Paris Salon, exhibition label on reverse.
Description:
Édouard François Zier (1837-1924) was a French painter known for his captiva...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In our Yard, Landscape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Village landscape
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2021
Style: Impressionism
Title: In our Yard
Size: ...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young People on the Rocks, Figurative, Original Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2016
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Young People on the Rocks
Size...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Under the Blossomed Tree, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Under the Blossomed Tree,
Size: 1...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn in the Yard, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2017
Style: Impressionism
Title: Autumn in the Yard
Size: 18" x 14" x...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Botanical Triptych Cyanotype Print of Shady Majesty Palm Leaves Garden in Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph, Monotype, Paper
Late 19th Century Reclining Nude California School
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century California School reclining nude female figure by anonymous 19th Century artist. In the style of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
” La Maschera ” 19th Century Antique Realistic Oil Painting On Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
“Mom and Her Kids,” an exquisite oil painting on canvas by Gaetano Chierici, also known as La Maschera, captures a timeless domestic scene with remarkable attention to detail and emo...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
An 18th-19th Century Oil on Canvas "The Triumph of Venice" After Paolo Veronese
By Paolo Veronese
Located in LA, CA
A very fine and Large Italian 18th-19th century oval-shaped oil on canvas titled "The Triumph of Venice" After the original work by Paolo Veronese (Venice, 1528-1588). The original of this painting hangs in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice. The 'Ricci' coloration suggests a late 17th-early 18th century date. In 1715 Charles de la Fosse advised Ricci to paint only "Veroneses and no more Riccis", Venice, circa 1800.
Measures:
Height: 45 1/4 inches (115 cm).
Width: 29 inches (73.7 cm).
Frame height: 58 1/4 inches (147.9 cm).
Frame width: 43 1/4 inches (109.9 cm).
Frame depth: 5 1/4 (13.3 cm).
Provenance: Royal Academy of Scotland.
Paolo Veronese (Born 1528, Verona, Republic of Venice - died April 9, 1588, Venice) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
$69,750 Sale Price
22% Off
Waves, Seascape, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2017
Style: Impressionism
Title: Waves
Size: 20" x 27.5" x 0.8'' inch...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waiting, Figurative Art, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2012
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Waiting,
Size: 18" x 14" x 0.8'' ...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Portland Harbor in 1910”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the well known Maine artist Bill Paxton. The watercolor depicts what Portland harbor in Maine looked like in 1910 with sailing vessels of the era moored in the harbor. Signed lower right by the artist. Titled verso. Circa 1975. Condition is excellent and is finely matted and framed. The artwork is matted and framed in a thin gold leaf custom gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 17.5 by 21.75 inches. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida estate.
William (Bill) Paxton 1930—2007
William Paxton, born August 5, 1930 in Lewiston, was one of Maine’s top selling artists. He had a passion for painting and from a young age he was known for his talents in sketching. Paxton captured many popular Maine scenes with watercolor, acrylic, and oils. His work also includes historical scenes he referenced in books from as early as the 1920’s, painting locomotives, aircraft, and war scenes. Paxton’s art is sold all over the world.
As a student at Bridgton Academy, he was featured in his yearbook. It states, “When artist Bill picks up his pen, we all stand at attention, for his remarks and pictures are certainly worth mention.” He wanted to pursue a career selling his art, but it was during the time of the Great Depression.
Also in his younger years, Paxton had an interest in skiing and won a medal for Second Highest Ski Jump. From there he went to flying and received a certification for Second-in-Command, to fly alongside the captain in a C-46F type of aircraft. He then joined the Air Force in the 40’s, although his passion and talents for art were constant throughout his life.
Paxton quickly became the front line military sketch...
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
Bur Reed & Water Hemlock: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Orobanche, Cicuta Maxima, Sparganium (Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape) ", depicting a flowering Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape 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.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There us spotting and some discoloration, most prominently in the upper and lower margins. There is irregularity and some loss along the right paper edge. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 21.5" high and 17.25" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Painting 19th Century Marine ruins old master
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BACHMANN Alfred Félix August (1863-1956)
Bording near the Antique Temple
Oil on canvas signed Low Left
Frame gilded with leaves ...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Peaches, Nectarines: George Brookshaw's 19th C. Framed Hand-colored Aquatint
Located in Alamo, CA
George Brookshaw's (1751-1823) beautiful "Peaches, Nectarines" hand colored aquatint engraving, plate 38 from his "Pomona Brittanica", considered to be the finest British botanical large format treatise of the 19th-century. His engravings were unique for their rich tones and colors, elegant compositions with the fruit seeming to float on a mottled sumptuous background. The pale green and peach-colored peaches and the pink and green flowers lie on a rich dark brown-colored background.
The print is presented in an ornate bronze-colored wood frame with gold-colored inner and outer trims and a triple mat. The outer mat is a marbled light...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Aquatint
Untitled (Cafe Interior), Shimshon Holzman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986)
Title: Untitled (Cafe Interior)
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Size: 27.75 x 19.75 inches
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Category
1960s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Life-size Plaster Statue of The Callipygian Venus or Aphrodite 1920'
Located in Rome, IT
Italian life-size plaster sculpture , figure of the Callipygian Venus, after the antique Roman marble statue.
Aphrodite Kallipygos, or Callipygian Venus literally means “Venus of ...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Plaster
$8,625 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin attributed to Mason Chamberlin
By Mason Chamberlin
Located in New Orleans, LA
Attributed to Mason Chamberlin
1729-1787 British
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
No visible signature
Oil on canvas
This exceptional portrait of Benjamin Franklin represents one of ...
Category
18th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Pompeian Lady
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
John William Godward
1861-1922 British
A Pompeian Lady
Signed and dated "J.W. Godward 1904" (lower right, partially covered by frame)
Oil on canvas
One of the last and greatest Victorian neoclassical painters, John William Godward is celebrated for his flawlessly executed images of graceful women posed in idealized ancient settings. In this work, entitled A Pompeian Lady, a classical beauty is caught idling in a moment of quiet, solitary reflection. Godward's elegant subjects are depicted with a degree of technical mastery that remains unsurpassed, and the work's dramatic palette, luxurious fabrics and classical vision are all characteristics of his unique take on the neoclassical style.
Godward was unmatched in terms of his technical skill and attention to detail. A master of contrasting textures, he paints a diaphanous gown draping against the model’s smooth, milky white skin, which sits against the painstakingly rendered individual hairs of a tiger’s pel. Scintillating color permeates the canvas as well, energizing the otherwise static scene. Each element is given careful attention, and the overall effect is one of both immaculate technique and sensual tactility.
Along with his contemporary and mentor, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Godward set the tone for the Victorian neoclassicist movement. He built his career upon creating images of idealized feminine beauty infused with a Greco-Roman-inspired style. Though greatly influenced by Alma-Tadema, Godward distinguished himself through his predilection for the solitary female figure. His fame rose dramatically in the first few years of the 20th century, when the present work was completed, due to the burgeoning strength of the British Empire and the Victorian society’s preoccupation with ancient Rome. To many of the newly affluent, Roman society was, as Iain Gale writes, “a flawless mirror of their own immaculate world.” The sensuality and mystery of Godward’s maidens, combined with his impressive antique backdrops...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Apollo Marble Bust Sculpture of Grand Tour Mythological subject 1850'
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in white Carrara marble of Apollo bust .
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Marble
$6,249 Sale Price
35% Off
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