Realist Art
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Period: 18th Century
“At The Oasis" 19th Century Antique Landscape orientalist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance:
Private Collection, Naples Fl, to Andrew Ford Collection, Sarasota, Fl. 2018
Description:
Georges Washington was born out of wedlock and held a...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Animal scene Duck hunting with dogs 18th century Swedish Master by Philip Korn
Located in Stockholm, SE
Monogrammed lower left: Johan Philip Korn (1728 - 1796), was a Swedish painter. A beautiful landscape, with a backwater in which carefree ducks swim, hunters and their dogs in passion, in the background you can see a city with a bell tower. Old masters have been depicting animals in their paintings since the Renaissance. In those days, hunting scenes were popular - there is always a share of emotional participation in them. Here it is necessary to understand that in previous centuries people looked at hunting as a means of obtaining food, therefore naturalism dominates in the painting of the old masters. Old oil painting on wooden panel, in a non-original frame of the 19th century.
Size app.: 49 x 64 cm (roughly 19.3 x 25.2 in) and nice golden gesso frame ca 65.5 x 81.5 cm (roughly 25.8 x 32.1 in). Very Good condition, age wear, cracks on a wooden board, minor losses, retouches, cleared and conserved. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 6.4 kg is going to measure some 10 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Johan Philip Korn first began his career as a decorative painter. He was a student of artist Johan Sevenbom (1721-1784). After further studies he changed to landscape painting in the Rococo style of French artist François Boucher (1703–1770) and often after Dutch copper engravings. In 1759, Korn became master of the Stockholm...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
German Baroque landscape Settlement near lake 18th century Oil painting Signed
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower right for Johann Christian Vollerdt (1708 - 1769). The beauty of baroque scenery is visible in painting, an excellent perspective with striking effects of chiaroscuro. This distinguishes the work of German painters of the 18th century. In their paintings, they exaggerate nature a bit and go visually beyond the borders of the canvas. With the exception of one drawing (“River landscape in the Dutch style”), only paintings by Vollerdt are known at the moment, exclusively miniature river landscapes, which were very popular at the time. His earliest surviving works date from 1738, the latest from 1769. Oil painting on canvas, framed.
Size app.: 34.5 x 43.2 cm (roughly 13.6 x 17 in) and nice original frame ca 46.5 by 55.5 cm (roughly 18.3 x 22 in). Very Good condition, usage age wear losses on the edges mostly; restorations, retouches; edge of canvas relined. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 2,05 kg is going to measure some 4 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Vollerdt initially received training in the private school of the copper engraver Paul Christian Zinck in Leipzig. After 1738 he began his apprenticeship with Johann Alexander Thiele in Dresden. Initially, he worked as a supraport painter. So he is probably the author of the 31 over-portals and panneaus in Oberlichtenau Castle, which Heinrich Graf von Brühl acquired in 1744, of which, however, only those in the garden hall have survived. From 1758 to 1769 V. painted a multitude of such landscapes, often pairs of pictures...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Baroque Portrait of a gentleman 18th century Italian master by Domenico Parodi
By Domenico Parodi (Genoa, 1672 - 1742)
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are grateful to Prof. Daniele Sanguineti for suggesting the attribution to Domenico Parodi (1672 - 1742). He dates the painting into the period between 1730 and 1740. Domenico Par...
Category
1730s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Native Floridians Etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 18th century etching of native Floridians probably used for a book. Very good condition for its age. Etching measures 7 1/2 inches high by 5 3/4 inches wide. The beautiful custom...
Category
1750s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Public Schools facade, Oxford University by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The Public Schools, University of Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of the facade of Oxford's Public Schools, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter.
Pieter van der Aa of Leiden was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He is noted for the many engravings he produced after David Loggan's series of Oxford and Cambridge colleges...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
The Bodleian Library, Oxford University by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
An interior within the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An e...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
The Sheldonian, Oxford University by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Oxford's marvellous She...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Cambridge University 18th century engraving by Jan Kip after Whitehand
Located in London, GB
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Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Oxford from the East engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Oxford from the East
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Oxford from the east, engraved by Pieter van de...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Public Schools, Oxford University by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The Public Schools, University of Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of the interior of the Public ...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Prospect of Oxford 18th century engraving by William Williams
Located in London, GB
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Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR
Located in Ferndown, GB
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR IN HARBOUR
Description
Good Condition canvas but very old with some browning in places (see picture).
C...
Category
Mid-18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
New College, Oxford engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
New College, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Le College Neuf (New College), engraved by Piete...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Still Life with Fish and Large Copper Pot, Late 18th Century Spanish Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 28 1/2 inches (61 x 73 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
This is an incredibly carefully executed work. On what appears to be a wooden ledge we see a plate of freshwater fish, possibly a roach, a copper pot, a larger terracota pot...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chapel Interior engraving c. 1800 English/British
Located in London, GB
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Chapel Interior (circa...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
University Church of St Mary, Oxford by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, University of Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of the University Church, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. St Mary's was the first building of the University of Oxford and its parish consists almost exclusively of university and college buildings. Its eccentric Baroque porch, designed by Nicholas Stone, faces the High Street, and it boasts a spire which is claimed by some church historians to be one of the most beautiful in England. Radcliffe Square lies to the north and to the east is Catte Street. The 13th-century tower is open to the public and provides magnificent views across the heart of the historic university city, especially Radcliffe Square, the Radcliffe Camera...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
All Souls College, University of Oxford by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
All Souls College
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Le College de Toutre les Ames (All Souls), engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The college was founded by Henry VI...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Queen's College, Oxford engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Queen's College, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Le College de la Reine (Queen's College), engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault (the wife of King Edward III...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
The Bodleian Library, Oxford University by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The Bodleian Library, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of the bea...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
University of Oxford Divinity School by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The Divinity School, University of Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-centur...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Lincoln College, Oxford engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Lincoln College, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Lincoln, engr...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
University of Oxford Botanic Garden by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of one of Oxford's dreamiest spaces: the Botanic Garden, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. The University of Oxford Botanic Garden was founded in 1621 and is the oldest botanical garden in Great Britain. van der Aa's engraving focuses on its architectural qualities, with four features of the garden highlighted for their beauty, symmetry, and prowess of design.
Of particular interest in this etching are the four trompe l'oeil pieces of gently curling paper which frame the gates of the garden. The Danby Gate (bottom left) at the front entrance to the garden is one of the three entrances designed by Nicholas Stone...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Oxford's marvellous She...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Magdalen College, Oxford engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Magdalen College, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
A magnificent eighteenth-century view of Magdalen, engraved by Pieter van...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Jesus College, Oxford engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Jesus College, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Jesus College, engraved by Pieter van der Aa a...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
St John's College, Oxford engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
St John's College, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of St John's, engraved by Pieter van der Aa a...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Pieter van der Aa: Map of Cambridge, after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Map of Cambridge
12 x 16 cm
Engraving (1727)
An eighteenth-century map of Cambridge eng...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Wildlife animal drawing of grey and white bird by enlightened painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Seaman in petticoat breeches and slops, smoking a pipe, carrying a carpetbag.
Located in Middletown, NY
English School, 18th century
Pen and black ink with gray wash on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 5 inches (238 x132 mm). 1/4 inch repaired loss, top center, to the left of the figure’s h...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pen
View of the village and Lake Brientz by Johann Ludwig Aberli - Engraving 30x42
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Animal drawing of sitting crow in black by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Weft Malling Abbey, Kent. Antique print
Located in Sydney, NSW
West Malling Abbey,Kent Antique print
Matt size 30cm x 33cm
Image Size 14 cm x 18 cm
Category
1780s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Ouse Bridge, York. Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Ouse Bridge York Antique Print
Matt size 30cm x 33cm
Image Size 12cm x 17 cm
Category
1780s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 19th CENTURY INTERIOR SCN BRITISH OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING Antique 19th Century Fine Quality Piece Gold Gilt frame ( damaged frame )
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century in a G...
Category
Mid-18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Wildlife drawing of jay bird of light blue by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Wildlife drawing of bird in black and white by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations.
He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Pontefract Church, Yorkshir.e. Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
Pontefract church, Yorkshire Antique print 1785
Matt size 30cm x 33cm
Image Size 12cm x 17 cm
Category
1780s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Cowling Castle Kent May 1784 Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
View Cowling Castlecastle Kent. Printed in 1784
Matt size 29cm x 33cm
Image Size 11 cm x 15 cm
Category
1780s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Cowling Castle Kent Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
View Cowling Castle Kent. Printed in 1784
Matt size 29cm x 33cm
Image Size 11 cm x 15 cm
Category
1780s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Newport Caftle, Monmouthshire Antique Print
Located in Sydney, NSW
View Newport Castle from the opposite bank of the River Usk, shows the bridge. Printed in 1784
Matt size 24cm x 26cm
Image Size 11 cm x 15 cm
Category
1780s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Animal drawing of magpie bird of blue and white by enlighted british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Southwark Cathedral engraving c. 1753 for Stow's Survey of London
Located in London, GB
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Category
1750s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
James Basire engraving Bishop's Palace Exeter England 1796 Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
James Basire (engraver) after W Davey (illustrator)
Chimneypiece in the Bishop's Palace, Exeter
50x33cm (to plate mark)
Engraving
Published by the Society of Antiquaries 23rd April 1...
Category
1790s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Exeter College Oxford University William Williams c. 1732 Engraving print
Located in London, GB
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William Williams...
Category
1730s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
South Prospect of Somerset House engraving c. 1753 for Stow's Survey of London
Located in London, GB
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1750s Realist Art
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Engraving
A Coachman - 18th Century British Figure watercolour drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
Study of a Coachman
Pencil and brown wash, shaped
Framed
16.5 by 9 cm., 6 ½ by 3 ½ in.
(frame size 32 by 22.5 cm., 12 ½ by 9 in.)
Provenance:
Iolo Williams;
Private collection.
Exhibited:
Sudbury, Gainsborough House, 1979.
Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Wildlife painting of black and white tufted duck by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Bird painting of woodpecker of black and red by enlightened painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Wildlife painting of black bird sitting by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
The White Horse An English Genre Painting by George Morland 18th Century
Located in Lincoln, GB
The White Horse by George Morland (1763- 1804)
Oil on Canvas.
Total size including painting and frame: 81cm x 94cm x 7cm
Housed in an ornate contemporary heavy gilt frame.
Clearly ...
Category
Early 1700s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Colen Campbell: Althorp Hall - Althrop - Diana Princess of Wales engraving 1725
Located in London, GB
Colen Campbell (1676-1729)
Althrop Hall in Northamptonshire the Seat of the Rt Honourable The Earl of Sunderland & co.
35x50cm
Engraving (1715-1725) from 'Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect...'
Althorp Hall - as it is now written, but still pronounced 'Althrop' - is the seat of the Earl Spencer and the location of the grave of Diana, Princess of Wales...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
A Young Lady and Two Beaux - 18th Century British Wash Drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
A Young Lady with Two Beaux
Pencil and brown wash
Framed
11 by 13.5 cm., 4 ¼ by 5 ¼ in.
(frame size 27.5 by 30 cm., 10 ¾ by 11 ¾ in.)
Provenance:
R F Pearce;
Agnew, London;
Private collection.
Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Johannes Kip, The North Prospect of Gloster Cathedral (c.1716) Copper Engraving
By Johannes Kip
Located in London, GB
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Category
1710s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
"Veduta Del Ponte Lugano su l'Avione" by Francesco Piranesi - Engraving
Located in Geneva, CH
Francesco Piranesi was born in Rome, the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and his wife, Angela Pasquini. He was educated in printmaking by his father, along with his older sister Laura (1755–1785), also a noted printmaker at the time of his untimely death. He both engraved his own works of art and assisted his father's work in 1775. He then began to study with other experts: engraving with Giovanni Volpato, landscape painting under the German Jacob Philipp Hackert and his brother Georg and architecture under Pierre-Adrien Pâris.
Piranesi accompanied his father on two trips to the ancient Roman ruins of Paestum, Pompei and Ercolano, first in 1770 and then again in 1778. In this he was part of a group of engravers who collaborated with Benedetto Mori and the architect Augusto Rosa, considered the inventor of felloplastica, the art of building models of ancient monuments in cork. Giovanni Battista created a series of preparatory drawings on Paestum, which were completed by Francesco. Upon his father's death, shortly after the second voyage, Francesco acquired his father's publishing house and was responsible for printing most subsequent editions of his prints.
Piranesi collaborated with French artist Louis Jean Desprez...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Cupid Sleeping - 18th Century British watercolour by Richard Westall RA
Located in London, GB
RICHARD WESTALL, RA
(1765-1836)
Cupid Sleeping; from a poem of Mrs Robinson
- The Duchess of Devonshire Discovers the Sleeping Cupid
Watercolour on paper, oval
36 by 44.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 18 in.
(frame size 55 by 66 cm., 21 ¾ by 26 in.)
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1792, no.448.
Richard Westall was bon in Reepham, near Norwich. Initially apprenticed to a London silver engraving he began studying at the Royal Academy Schools from 1785 and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1784 and 1836. Westall became an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1792 and a full member in 1794.
Westall painted in both oil and watercolour, his works being romantic and neoclassical in style. He contributing to both Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and Fuseli’s Milton Gallery and was also a prolific book illustrator of both fiction and poetry including works by Sir Walter Scott and Byron, whose portrait he also painted. For a time he was also art master to the young Princess Victoria.
This is probably Westall’s 1792 Royal Academy exhibit (no.448). The subject was inspired by the poem Cupid Sleeping by the poetess-actress Mary Darby Robinson, which had been published in the previous year. The poem was dedicated to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and the picture show the Duchess discovering the sleeping cupid who she then relieves of his bow and arrows. Mrs Robinson was not only the Duchess’s protégée but also the first public mistress of the Prince of Wales. William Nutter’s engraving of Westall’s picture was also dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire.
Close in a woodbine's tangled shade,
The blooming god asleep was laid;
His brows with mossy roses crown'd;
His golden darts lay scatter'd round;
To shade his auburn, curled head,
A purple canopy was spread,
Which gently with the breezes play'd,
And shed around a soften'd shade.
Upon his downy smiling cheek,
Adorned with many a "dimple sleek,"
Beam'd glowing health and tender blisses,
His coral lip...
Category
1790s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Dulwich College J Oliphant Engraving 1775 Harrison's History of London
Located in London, GB
To see our other views and maps of England - including London, Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send...
Category
1770s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
"Osprey, " William Lewin, Old Master, original gouache, realist, natural history
Located in Wiscasset, ME
William Lewin (1747–1795) was an English naturalist and illustrator. By 1776 he was earning a living as a pattern drawer, and by 1783 was describing himself as a painter. Lewin spec...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Gouache
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