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
Period: 20th Century
Portrait of Dorothy Thompson (The Wild Rose) - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a beautiful blue-eyed girl in a pink dress holding flowers in her hand. It's based on Renaissance portraits where the subject is pushed to the foreground and i...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Young woman sitting
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Antoni Costa Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting.. frame
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD....
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Cathédrale Saint Pierre Genève by Pierre Duc - Watercolor
By Pierre Duc
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor paper
Brown wooden frame with plexiglass
85,5 x 65,7 x 2 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Study of woman in bathing suit - Ink drawing - circa 1916
Located in Paris, FR
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Study of woman in bathing suit
Original India ink and color pencil drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10.4 x 7.8 in)
Ver...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Color Pencil, India Ink
Lively alley by Pierre Duc - Watercolor
By Pierre Duc
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on arch paper
Black wooden frame with glass pane
87 x 67,5 x 1,5 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Sexy Gag Cartoon E. Simms Campbell first African American Cartoonist - Black Art
Located in Miami, FL
Elmer Simms Campbell was a brilliant illustrator and cartoon artist and was also the first African American cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in major newsstand magazines such a...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Board, Casein
Two divine women - Pencil drawing - circa 1914
Located in Paris, FR
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
Color Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Original 1924 Soviet Union Public Scientific Journal Flint vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1924 Soviet Union lithographic poster for a monthly magazine called "Flint". The magazine was a public scientific journal that dealt with the electrical revolution, biolog...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Set of Extraordinary Italian Stone Statues Representing the Four Seasons
Located in Rome, IT
Monumental classically draped female figures and their distinguishing symbols on a square base.
Autumn, winter, spring and summer. Measures: Heig...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
Anatomy Drawings of a Horse - Original French Artwork Equestrian Anatomy Study
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Anatomy of a Horse
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original drawing stuck on card in blue folder/ thick paper, unframed
top drawing: 7.25 x 9...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
View over the Roof-tops of Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark
By Svend Hammershøi
Located in New York, NY
Svend Hammershoi (1873 Frederiksborg, Copenhagen 1948), View over the Roof-tops of Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, Oil on Panel, Signed: SH, in it's original frame
"Designer, painter and trained ceramicist, Svend Hammershøi was the younger brother of Vilhelm Hammershøi...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Paint
The Swing - Romantic Scene in the Garden
By Antonio Cerveto
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CERVETO RIBA Antonio (1876-1938)
"The swing"
Oil on canvas signed low right
Gault frame (Paris)
Dim canvas : 60 X 80 cm
Dim frame : 81 X 102 cm
CERVETO RIB...
Category
1920s 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
Untitled (Sideview of a Gentleman)
By John Gilroy
Located in New York, NY
John Thomas Young Gilroy (English, 1898-1985), "Untitled: Sideview of a Gentleman", Charcoal/Pencil on Paper signed and matted to original card stock, 20.75 x 12.75 (22 x 14), Early 20th Century, 1920
Colors: White, Black
John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".
Born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, Gilroy attended Durham University until his studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served with the Royal Field Artillery. He resumed studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained as a teacher. He taught at Camberwell College of Arts.[1]
In 1925, he gained employment at S.H. Benson's advertising agency, where he created the iconic advertisement art for Guinness featuring the Zoo Keeper and animals enjoying Guinness.[2] He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers.[3] He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering Royalty, Politicians, Actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge. He was a long-standing and much loved member of the Garrick Club...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Old Time Football in the 1920s - Football 1920s - Classic Football
Located in Miami, FL
You Got to be a Football Hero to Get Along with a Beautiful Girl. Masterfully composed and dynamic illustration that show a player getting punched in the jaw. During this period, there were no face...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sketch of woman by Stephanie Guerzoni - Drawing 31x48 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper with a white wooden frame and glass. The total size with frame is 45,5 x 54,5 cm
Stéphanie Guerzoni is a Swiss and Italian painter born April 15, 1887 in Vienna (Aust...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Omnibus in Paris - Handsigned Original Watercolor Painting
Located in Paris, FR
Francis GARAT
Omnibus in Paris
Original watercolor painting
Handsigned in ink
On vellum, 30 x 40 cm (c. 11,8 x 15,7 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Man and Sun Gold Screenprint by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Man and Sun
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Screen
Sketch of women and infant by P.E Vibert - Drawing 41x29 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Anatomy of a Horse - Original French Artwork Equestrian Anatomy Study
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Anatomy of a Horse
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original drawing stuck on card in blue folder/ thick paper, unframed
size: 14.5 x 9.25
ove...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
“Seaside Italian Villa”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful, original watercolor on archival paper of an Italian seaside villa with figures. Executed in 1902 by the American artist, George Washington Nicholson...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Mother and Child
Located in Miami, FL
This warm portrait looks like it could have been painted by Corot. Francis Luis Mora paints in that tradition. It's a small painting that invites the viewer to look closer. The art...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Board, 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 emotion...
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape by Henri Fehr - Drawing 20x30 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Young woman Drawing on paper 23x32 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Monogram L.T.C.
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Granny with glasses by Hans Berger - Engraving 50x39 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Ed: 24/100
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Engraving
Portrait of a man by Hans Berger - Drawing 44x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Ed: 1 /100
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Crayon
At Paulette's by M. Opériol - Drawing 32x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canton paper
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
“The Harem Girl”
By Konrad Filip
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an intriguing portrait of a young harem girl in costume by the German artist, Konrad Filip. Signed by the artist top right, Munich. Condition is very ...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, 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
Oil, Canvas
Town Hall Square By Barthélémy Marc Bodmer - Engraving
Located in Geneva, CH
Engraving on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
62 x 50 x 2 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
1980 Fauno e Ninfa Faun and Nymph Pencil on Paper Figurative Drawing
Located in Brescia, IT
This delicate drawing of the dance between a Faun and the Nimph, looks following the Jean Cocteau clean line drawings.
We can see in this scene, the grace and simplicity of the Neoc...
Category
1980s Academic Art
Materials
Paper
Children on the Beach Marine Landscape French Antique Oil Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
The setting is the French coast, on a tranquil summer's evening. Clouds are drawing in, the sky is turning dusky pink and purple, but there is still time left for play, for the children on the beach...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anatomy Drawing of a Horse - Original French Artwork Equestrian Anatomy Study
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Anatomy of a Horse
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original drawing stuck on card in black folder/ thick paper, unframed
drawing: 12 x 17.75 ...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
Landscape by Paul Mathey - Pencil on paper 30x43 cm
By Paul Mathey
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
“British Pub”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior crowded pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed lower left and date...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Untitled (Mother Holding Baby)
By John Gilroy
Located in New York, NY
John Thomas Young Gilroy (English, 1898-1985), "Untitled: Mother Holding Baby", Figurative/Academic Drawing signed on Paper, 14 x 8, Early 20th Century
Colors: White, Black
"Untitled: Mother Holding Baby" is a Figurative/ Academic Drawing signed on Paper. Among our Gilroy collection of drawings, this particular work is unique due to its original grid markings included here within. As one can view among our details, the drawing has visible age markings and 3/4 of the perimeter rear of the work has tape. Nevertheless, as with all his figurative graphite works, a wonderfully drawn piece of a Mother cradling her infant child.
John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".
Born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, Gilroy attended Durham University until his studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served with the Royal Field Artillery. He resumed studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained as a teacher. He taught at Camberwell College of Arts.
In 1925, he gained employment at S.H. Benson's advertising agency, where he created the iconic advertisement art for Guinness featuring the Zoo Keeper and animals enjoying Guinness.He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers. He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering Royalty, Politicians, Actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge. He was a long-standing and much loved member of the Garrick Club...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
"Young woman in evening dress" by Emile Hornung - Drawing 43x57 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Sketch of Pierrot tuning his guitar on the back of the artwork
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
Horse sketch by Otto Vautier - Drawing on paper 31x37 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on cardboard
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Chalk, Color Pencil
In evening dress by Henri Fehr - Sketch 50x70 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Portrait of a lady by Stephanie Guerzoni - Pastel on paper 38x51 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper sold with frame (white wooden frame with glass). The total size with frame is 46,5 x 56,5 cm
Stéphanie Guerzoni is a Swiss and Italian painter born April 15, 1887 in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pastel, Crayon
Nymph of Eurydice - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943)
Nymph of Eurydice
Original lithograph enhanced in pastel
Printed signature in the plate
On light cream tinted vellum 40 x 24,5 cm (c. 15,7 x 9,6 inch)
I...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Dressing" by Otto Vautier - Pencil on paper 19x12 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Stamp of the workshop of O. Vautier
Dimension of the "passe partout" frame 52.5 x 38 cm
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
“After the Hunt”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom left. Circa 1940. ...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Dancer by Henri Fehr - Drawing 50x35 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Crayon
Mounted Jockeys Taking a Jump
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Bronze (After) Henri (Comte) Geoffroy De Ruille, Mounted Jockeys (French 1842-1922)
"Mounted Jockeys Taking a Jump"
40"long x 26" high x 20 ½" wide
20th Century
Medium: Patinaed B...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
British, early 20th Century oriental scene by female artist Katie Blackmore
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Katie Blackmore (British, 1890 – 1957)
Oriental fantasy
Ink and gouache on paper
Signed ‘K Blackmore’ (lower right)
9 x 8.3/8in. (22.8 x 21.2 cm.)
A Scottish figurative and decorative artist, Katie Blackmore was closely associated with both Jessie Marion King...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Paper, Gouache
Fishing Party - Pencil drawing - circa 1914
Located in Paris, FR
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Fishing Party
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, pap...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Color Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Dance school by Benjamin II Vautier - Drawing 33x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
49,5 x 63 x 2 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pencil
Original Leipziger Messe International Leipzig Trade Fair vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original German vintage poster: International Leipzig Trade Fair Leipziger Messe in NYC.
Beginning Feb. 28th, 1937. Held in New York City. Th...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Engraving Portrait Print of "Boy with a Sword" by Edouard Manet 1861
By Henry Wolf
Located in Houston, TX
Early 20th century engraving of Edouard Manet's "Boy with Sword" by notable artist Henry Wolf. Manet's stepson, Léon Koëlla-Leenhoff, posed for the original work in 1861. Manet dressed him in a seventeenth-century costume, adding a period sword as a prop—a tribute to the great Spanish painters he admired, notably Velázquez. Signed and dated by Wolf in the front lower right corner. Currently hung in a gold frame with a cream matting.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 10.25 in. x W 7.5 in.
Artist Biography: Henry Wolf was born on August 3, 1852 in Eckwersheim, France. He lived in Strasbourg and studied under Jacques Levy and exhibited in Paris. Henry Wolf moved to New York City in 1871, where he created wood engravings of works by Gilbert Stuart, Enric Serra Auqué, Frank Weston Benson, Howard Pyle, Henry Salem Hubbell, John Singer Sargent, A. B. Frost, Jan Vermeer...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Italian Limestone Garden Sculptures of Aria a Roman Goddness
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in Lecce limestone of Aria a Roman Goddness .
Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto.
Measurements: Statue cm 160, base cm 85.
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
Art Lovers and Art Critics Analyzing Obscene Painting. Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Cartoonist Richard Taylor was trained in academic art. He frequently comments on abstract art which was the new and radical thing at the time. "Curtis sees so much more in these thi...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Board
Moulin Rouge Dancer - Pencil drawing - circa 1916
Located in Paris, FR
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Moulin Rouge Dancer
Original pencil and color pencil drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c....
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Color Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Rialto Bridge, Venice by Dellal, 1950
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful oil on canvas of the 50’s figuring a peaceful view of the Rialto on the Grand Canal in Venezia.
The oil is in good condition with some old réfections
visible in the back.
The painting is signed on the bottom right Delall and countersigned on the back.
It comes with a charming old gilted and ornamented in Barocco style...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Puerta Bisagra, Toledo”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board painting of the historic city of Toledo by the Australian artist, Robert Camm. Signed lower left and titled and dated verso, 1931. Th...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Pair Italian Limestone Garden Sculptures with Cornucopia
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in limestone with Cornucopia associated with the harvest, prosperity, or spiritual abundance. Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto.
Measur...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
Academic art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Academic art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Karen Darbinyan, Owen Jones, Paul Jones b.1921, and Mark Beard. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Academic art, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $700,000, while the average work sells for $1,444.
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