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
Academy Study - Naked Man
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of 19th century
Academy study - Naked man
Oil on canvas
81 x 56,8 cm
Inscribed "Julien" on the backside
Without signature
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of female nude and a couple - Pencil drawing - circa 1914
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Study of female nude and a couple
Original pencil drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in)
Good condition, paper...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Pencil
No Love Without Envy by Eugene Von Blaas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Eugen von Blaas
Italian I 1843-1932
No Love Without Envy
Signed and dated "Eugen von Blaas 1901" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Eugen von Blaas masterfully captured the spirit and charm of Venice, and No Love Without Envy stands as one of his most exceptional compositions. Larger and more finely detailed than many of his works, this grand painting reflects his unparalleled mastery of light, color and narrative. Rich in detail and emotion, this scene is believed to feature a stylized self-portrait of the artist alongside his wife, Paola Prina.
Set in a sun-drenched Venetian courtyard, the composition brims with life and intrigue. At its center, an orange seller—modeled by Prina—engages in a flirtatious exchange with an admirer, the artist himself, while three onlookers observe with amusement and envy. The interplay of light and texture is remarkable: von Blaas' exquisite brushwork renders the delicate lace, sumptuous fabrics and intricately adorned garments with near-photographic precision, while the soft flesh tones contrast beautifully against the timeworn stonework of Venice. This attention to detail, combined with the work’s luminous palette, creates a sense of immediacy and warmth that defines the best of von Blaas' Venetian genre paintings.
Born in 1843 to Austrian parents in Italy, von Blaas was raised in a household steeped in artistic tradition. His father, Karl Blaas, was a renowned portraitist and history painter, while his brother specialized in military scenes. When Karl was appointed professor at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, the family relocated to the floating city—a move that profoundly shaped von Blaas’ artistic vision. Though he studied in Rome, Vienna and Paris, it was Venice that remained his greatest muse. Captivated by its light, architecture and everyday moments of romance and social interplay, he became the foremost painter of Venetian genre scenes.
During Venice’s Austrian rule, von Blaas adopted the Italianized name “Eugene de Blaas...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Patinated Bronze Statuette of William Shakespeare
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frederick William MacMonnies
1863–1937 American
William Shakespeare
Signed "F. MacMonnies" and foundry-marked "E. Gruet Jeune, Fondeur, Paris"
Bronze
Frederick William MacMonnies...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
“Seaside Picnic”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a bucolic seaside picnic with a mother and her young children. Signed by the artist, F. G. Grust lower left. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in a period style gold leaf frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 31.5 by 41.75 inches. Provenance: A California estate.
F. G. Grust was a Dutch painter born in 1889 who was best known for his domestic interior and exterior scenes of a mother with her young children. He is the son of artist Theordor Grust (1859 - 1909), who also painted Dutch genre...
Category
1920s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,500 Sale Price
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Painting 19th century French School Genre Scene Interior Portrait
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French School 19th century
Close to François Xavier FABRE (1766-1837)
The Princess and The Chaperone
Oil on canvas
One can read on the reverse "Fabre Fecit" and the name and address of the canvas dealer shop...
Category
1850s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
CLASSICAL Antique PRE-RAPHEALITE Grecian Ladies on a MARBLE Painted TERRACE
By Henry Ryland
Located in New York, NY
Ryland studied under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902), Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) in Paris, and also at the South Kensington Art Sc...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
"The Working Man"
By R.V. Rowe
Located in Southampton, NY
34 x 28 overall
Canvas laid down on artist board
Signed lower right
Overall in gold leaf frame 30x24 inches
R.W. Rowe
Circa 1970’s
Category
1970s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,760 Sale Price
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The Musical Performance oil on panel by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Located in New York, NY
The Musical Performance by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
An italian genre painting showcasing two boys playing a trumpet and a guitar for their sist...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Board
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
Solitude
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Academic painter Guillaume Seignac was renowned for his masterful treatment of the idealized nude. His languishing female subjects based on Greco-Roman prototypes were and rem...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French 19th Century oil painting of The rescue of Deianara by Emile Menard
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Emile Rene Menard (French, 1862-1930)
L`enlevement de Dejanira (The rescue of Deianara)
Oil on canvas
Signed `E R Menard’ (lower left) and inscribed with t...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Classic Still Life with Fan and Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Still Life, 20th Century
Oil on board
Sight: 16 1/4 x 19 in.
Framed: 19 3/4 x 22 1/4 x 1 in.
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn" Eastman Johnson, Prominent Gentleman Portrait
Located in New York, NY
Eastman Johnson
John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn, 1883
Initialed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
28 x 18 inches
For many years the foremost genre painter in the United States, Eas...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British, 19th Century oil painting of harvest time in the English countryside
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
David Hamilton (British, circa 1888)
Harvest time
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated `David Hamilton 1888’ (lower right)
20.1/8 x 16 in. (51.2 x 40.8 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Charge 19th-century Realism Antique Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed and dated 1894
Description:
Eugene Alexis Girardet (1853-1907) was a prominent Swiss painter known for his remarkable attention to detail and his ability to capture vivid and dynamic scenes. Born in Paris, France, Girardet came from a family of artists and received early artistic training from his father, Paul Girardet, and his uncle, Jules Girardet, both respected engravers. He later studied at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he honed his skills and developed a deep appreciation for historical and orientalist subjects.
He was interred at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery. In addition to several museums in France, his works may be seen at the Dahesh Museum of Art and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers, as well as at museums in Switzerland and New York City.
Girardet’s artwork often depicted historical and exotic scenes, particularly focusing on Middle Eastern and North African themes. His meticulous attention to detail and his ability to convey a sense of movement and drama made his works highly sought after. One of his most renowned paintings, “The Charge,” exemplifies his exceptional talent and his ability to create a captivating and immersive experience for viewers.
In “The Charge,” Girardet presents an army of Arab camel...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
28” Orpheus Antique Bronze Sculpture Male Nude with Lyre by George Mattes 1900
Located in New York, NY
For sale is the great looking large male nude bronze sculpture of Orpheus by German Artist Professor George Mattes (1874-1945). Orpheus is seen along ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
On a Ferris wheel - Archival fine art print, Black white, graphical photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 g/m² paper of a photograph by Harry Sutcliffe (1878- 1942) entitled ' On a Ferris wheel '
Graphic scene taken on a Fer...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
A Very Fine Danish 19th Century Oil on Canvas "The Sewing Room" (Systue)
Located in LA, CA
Wenzel Ulrik Tornøe (Danish, 1844-1907) A very fine and large oil on canvas titled "Systue" ("The Sewing Room"). The finely executed artwork depicting the interior of a sewing room w...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
“Misty Morning Gloucester”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of a misty morning on the Gloucester docks by the well known American artist, John Cuthbert Hare. Signed by the artist lower right. Circa 1940. Condition is ex...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Fabulous Italian Neoclassical Marble Sculpture of Hermes
Located in Rome, IT
19th century French finely chiseled bronze figure of Hermes .
Signed Pigalle G . Cuspinera
Hermes , the messenger of the gods, is sitting on a rock, ready to leap up. He is att...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
$6,709 Sale Price
20% Off
In The Village, figurative, 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: In the Village
Size: 19" x 23" x 0.8...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Classical Naturalistic Style Italian Allegory Study
Located in Houston, TX
Classical style allegorical painting with puti and monarchy type figures floating within the clouds. The canvas is framed in a decorative gold frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 43.5...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Academic 19th Century portrait of a young woman by Cabanel
By Alexandre Cabanel
Located in New York, NY
Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889)
Portrait
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) was a prominent French academic painter known for his mastery of Neoclassical ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,000 Sale Price
42% Off
View of Venice
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Georges-Noël Béraud (1912-1972)
Pseudonym : Marc Aldine
Oil on canvas signed low right with pseudonym Marc Aldine
View of Venice
Golden frame
Size canvas : 55 X 81 cm - Size frame : ...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil on Canvas "A Young Man Napoleonic Bicorne Hat".
Located in LA, CA
Napoleone Luigi Grady (Italian, 1860-1949) A Very Fine Oil on Canvas "A Young Man Bicorne Hat". The beautifully executed artwork depicting a posing young boy in full period celebrato...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Magnificent Italian Fountain Sculpture of Goddess with Delphines
Located in Rome, IT
Monumental finely carved limestone fountain sculpture of Goddess with a putto figure and three magnificent dolphins .
Proveniente from an important Villa Veneta.
Including a round ...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
At the Window, Still Life, 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: At the Window
Size: 30" x 24" x 0.8'' inch, (76x51x2cm),
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
On the Rocks, 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: 2017
Style: Impressionism
Title: On the Rocks
Size: 24" x 25" x 0.8''...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Evening, City, 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
Subject: Winter Evening
Size: 16" x 20" x 0...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A Carnival scene, watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
A carnival scene
21 x 16.5 cm
Watercolor and brown ink on paper
Signed lower right
Period frame : 35 x 30 cm (lacks in...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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
French School circa 1880, Portrait of a boy holding a book, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school circa 1880
Portrait of a boy holding a book
graphite and white gouache on paper
39.5 x 32 cm oval view
in good condition, slightly yellowed with age
In its original ova...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Alfred Copestick, Fort Hamilton from the Narrows, New York, 1857
Located in Queens, NY
Alfred Copestick (1837–1859)
Fort Hamilton from the Narrows, New York, 1857
Oil on canvas, in the original giltwood frame
14 ¼ x 20 ⅛ in. (canvas)
Signed lower left: A. Copestick NY 1857
Painted when Copestick was only twenty years old, Fort Hamilton from the Narrows, New York captures both the military fortifications and maritime vitality of New York Harbor at mid-century. In the foreground, the fortress bastion commands the shoreline, while sail and steam vessels traverse the Narrows — the strategic waterway linking Upper New York Bay to the Atlantic. Copestick conveys not only the architectural solidity of Fort Hamilton but also the shifting atmosphere above, where cloud formations build and dissolve across a wind-driven sky.
The painting is a remarkable marriage of documentary precision and romantic sensibility. The young artist’s brush imbues the fortress with weight and presence, yet the broader scene is alive with the transience of weather and the ceaseless motion of the sea. In its original giltwood frame, richly carved and preserving the period character, the canvas is a rare survival of a gifted hand cut short in its prime.
This canvas reveals Copestick’s deep engagement with the maritime traditions of American art. The careful delineation of sailing vessels recalls the precision of James E. Buttersworth, while the atmospheric breadth echoes the influence of Fitz Henry Lane and John F. Kensett. The choice of subject — the strategic Narrows and its fortress — also reflects the national mood of the 1850s, when American identity was bound up with its coasts, harbors, and defenses.
The romantic skies and dramatic contrasts suggest the impact of the Hudson River School, particularly the legacy of Thomas Cole and Asher B...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century drawing attributed to John Flaxman of a classical maiden
By John Flaxman
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to John Flaxman (British, 1755- 1826)
Study of a classical maiden
Pen and ink on paper
5.1/2 x 3.1/8 in. (14 x 8 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Chickens in the Farmyard in pair
By Claude Guilleminet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GUILLEMINET Claude (1821-1860)
Chickens in the Farmyard
Oils on wood panels in pair signed low
New golden frames
Dim wood panel (each) : 27 X 20 cm
Dim frame (each) : 47 X 40 cm
GU...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Young Lady and Cupid in The Park
By Hans Zatzka
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Hans Zatzka (8 March 1859 – 17 December 1945
Young Lady With Cupid in The Park
Oil on canvas circa 1880 signed low with pseudonym C.BRIAND
Old Frame gilded with leaves
Size canvas : ...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
French religious small paintings Jesus and Virgin Mary Portrait Academic 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Jules Achille LECARON
Paris, 1813 – ?
Portrait of Jesus and his mother the Virgin Mary
Oils on wood
15 x 12 cm (25 x 21 cm with frame)
Signed on the back "Painted by Achille Lecaron ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A Carnival character, original signed Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
A Carnival character and a Zouave
19.5 x 12.5 cm
Pen and ink on paper
Signed lower left with the initials (faded)
In a modern framing : 35 x 28 cm
T...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Ink
'Hart Laubs Duck' by British ornithologist Sir Peter Markham Scott
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sir Peter Markham Scott CH CBE DSC FRS FZS
Hart Laubs Duck
Watercolour on paper
4.3/8 x 6.1/2 in. (11.2 x 16.5 cm.)
Provenance: Painted by Scott as a visual record for a bird spotte...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pleasure of 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: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: Pleasure of the Sea
Size: 27.5" x 35...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Life-Size Italian 19th Century Marble Sculpture Children on Crib, A. Tantardini
Located in LA, CA
Antonio Tantardini (Italian, 1829-1879) An extraordinary Italian 19th century life size carved Carrara white marble sculpture of "A Young Child and a baby in a wicker crib" - A Risorgimento Allegory. Signed and dated: A.nio Tantanrdini F.ce / 1863. The older child's medallion inscribed with an interlocked XV and Garibaldi, the crib monogrammed: AR. Circa: Florence, 1863. This sculpture includes a recent custom-made veined black marble pedestal stand. (The 2 items description mean the sculpture and pedestal, which are sold as sold a set.)
In a country famed for its skilled carvers and working in an age when virtuoso carving technique was highly prized, Antonio Tantardini was one of the very best exponents of master carvers in nineteenth century Italy. Vicario describes Tantardini's skill as 'un abilità tecnica stupefacente'.
The present amazing quality marble group epitomizes Tantardini's exceptional talents as a carver. Lesser sculptors might have shied away from attempting to carve a life-size wicker crib in marble, but Tantardini has clearly relished the Challenge. The result is a stunning achievement of verismo Italian sculpture.
This marble group, however, is more than a paradigm of Italian marble carving, it is also a prime example of the use of Risorgimento allegory in Italian sculpture of the 1860s. Famous sculptural Risorgimento allegories include Raffaelle Monti...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Marble
Charming 19th Century Oil on Canvas Triptych of Cherubs 'An Allegory to Spring'
Located in LA, CA
Ferdinand Wagner II (German, 1847-1927) A very fine and charming triptych group of three oil on canvas laid on board titled "An Allegory to Spring" each panel depicting different pla...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Set of Four Italian Stone Statues Representing the Four Arts 1920'
Located in Rome, IT
Rare set of sculptures composed by a set of the four female figures representing The Arts. 1920'
Music, Painting , Architecture ,Sculpture.
Measures: Height cm 150
Very good origin...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
Antique Female American Orientalist painting ARABS PRAYING outside MOSQUE
Located in New York, NY
Maria Martinetti was born in 1864 in Italy. Martinetti attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, studying under the Orientalist painter Gustavo Simoni. Martinetti exhibited works in...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Paris view with Characters circa 1900
By Georges Stein
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
STEIN Georges (1864-1917)
Paris street Views - Porte St Denis
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 70 X 92 cm - Dim ...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Aurora in white toga smelling a flower. Goddess of Dawn Mythology scene
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Louis Hamon artfully presents the mythological subject: Aurora the Goddess of Dawn. She is dressed in a flowing toga, standing on a large leaf and smelling the sweetness of a flower in bloom. Surrounded by lush plants in an idyllic setting of pinks and blues, one would not think that this peaceful and beautiful work was painted in 1864 at the time of the American Civil War. Hamon meticulously renders the scene with the academic precision of Bouguereau. The closer you get, the more detail you discover. Two butterflies sit atop Aurora's head. Droplets of water gracefully roll down her hair.
There was a hand colored steel plate...
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
$89,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a woman in red. Famous French painter
Located in New York, NY
Great piece by this french academic artist, noted of his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits. Signed top-right.
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Neoclassical Neapolitan busts of Aristocratic couple. Plaster. Circa 1820
Located in Firenze, IT
Two 19th century busts.
Charles X period, ca. 1820.
Material: plaster. It depicts two portraits, modeled by a sculptor in the late Empire era, which depict two aristocrats from Sou...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Chalk
$2,396 Sale Price
20% Off
Apelles holding his palette and brushes
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
(Montauban 1780 – Paris 1867)
Apelles holding his palette and brushes
Late reinterpretation after The Apotheosis of Homer – c. 1860
Black chalk, stump...
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
View of Venice - Painting 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KAUFMANN KARL (1843-1901)
Pseudonym : CARNIER
Venice view
Oil on canvas signed CARNIER low right
Framed by Gault (Paris) gilded with leaves
Dim : canvas ...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
BOY WITH UNICORN - original painting by Paula Craioveanu Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Boy with Unicorn", acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, 39×39in
Shipped rolled in a tube. Comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
“Boy with Unicorn” is a powerful a...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Alfred Copestick, Coastal Scene: New York, Oil on Canvas, 1857
Located in Queens, NY
Alfred Copestick (1837–1859)
Coastal Scene: New York, 1857
Oil on canvas, in the original giltwood frame
14 ¼ x 20 ⅛ in. (canvas)
Signed lower right: A. Copestick NY 1857
Painted at just twenty years of age, Coastal Scene: New York demonstrates Alfred Copestick’s remarkable promise as a marine painter in antebellum America. The scene brims with energy: a single sailboat heels sharply into the wind, its rigging taut against the storm, while foamy waves break against a rugged shoreline. Above, clouds mass and dissolve, illuminated by shafts of storm-lit light. Copestick’s treatment is both romantic and naturalistic, conveying the sublime tension between man, sea, and sky. His confident brushwork captures atmosphere with an immediacy and sensitivity rarely found in so young an artist.
The work survives in its original giltwood frame, richly carved in a mid-nineteenth-century American style, which not only underscores its historical authenticity but also heightens the tonal drama of the painting.
Alfred Copestick came of age during a fertile moment in American painting, when marine art and landscape were central to cultural identity. Though little is known of his formal training, his works suggest familiarity with and admiration for leading marine painters such as James E. Buttersworth, famed for his racing yachts; Francis Augustus Silva, who later developed a luminist style of coastal painting; and earlier masters like Thomas Birch, whose shipwrecks and storm scenes set a precedent for drama at sea.
Copestick also absorbed broader currents in American landscape painting. The Hudson River School, led by Thomas Cole, Asher B...
Category
19th Century 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
A Very Fine Italian Oil on Canvas Titled "The Solo Violinist or Violin Teacher "
Located in LA, CA
A very fine Italian oil on canvas titled "The Solo Violinist" by Luigi Da Rios (Italian, 1844-1892), depicting an interior 18th century room scene of a single violinist player; withi...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Oil
Forest Nymph - Figurative Nude Oil Painting Colors Brown Grey Pale Blue Green
By Lyubena Fox
Located in Sofia, BG
"Forrest Nymph" (2016)
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm unframed
Painting was started in 2015, most of it was finished by 2016, the last touches done in 2019. Inspired by the 19th century French painter Bouguereau, she wanted to depict a nymph that inhibits the forest, wearing a flower crown made from Hepatica flowers, wild forest flowers.
The Painting’s Qualities
Lyubena Fox...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Beach, 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: 2021
Style: Impressionism
Title: On the Beach
Size: 31.5" x 45" x 1''...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,840 Sale Price
20% Off
"Mephistopheles and the Faust" Mid 19th c, Antique Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Alfred Jacomin
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is dated and signed on the bottom left side.
Description:
Alfred Jacomin was a landscape and genre painter. He was a student of his father, Jean-Marie Jacomin, the Swiss...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Young Peasants at Rest oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Young Peasants at Rest
Artist: Adrián de Unzueta (Mexico, 1865 – first half of the 20th century)
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 35 x 26 cm (13.8 x 10.2 in)
Framed dimens...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
TORSO OF YOUNG BRONZE MAN
Located in Nice, FR
Bust of a young man with green bronze patina.
Category
1960s Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
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