Romantic Art
ROMANTIC STYLE
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Style: Romantic
J. M. W. Turner, Temple of Jupiter, Aegina, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Crowhurst, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Ben Arthur, Scotland, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Aesacus & Hesperie. Vide Ovid, Book X, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Sheep-washing, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Swiss Bridge, Mont St. Gothard, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Woman at a tank, or hindoo ablutions, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, River Wye, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Hedging and ditching, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Coast scene. Sunset, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Rizpah. 2d Book of Samuel, Chap. XXI., Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Drawing of The Clyde, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
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Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Little Devil's Bridge over The Russ, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
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1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Young anglers, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Lake of Thun, Switzerland, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Jason, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Smugglers, Flint Castle, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
J. M. W. Turner, Basle, Liber Studiorum (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Sepia-toned etching on cold press wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Fair condition in the original state from 1878-1879; will be professionally conserved to very good c...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
Une Affection Tacite - 19th Century Romantic Oil Painting Girl & Loving Admirer
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Une Affection Tacite’ by Adèle Kindt (1804-1893).
The painting – which depicts a young woman and her ardent admirer – is signed by the artist and dated ...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
‘Landscape with Cows and Sheep in a wide river landscape’, Eugène Verboeckhoven
Located in Bruges, BE
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Warneton 1798 – 1881 Schaarbeek
Belgian Painter
‘Landscape with Cows and Sheep in a wide river landscape’
Signature: signed and dated lower mid-right 'E...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Une Affection Tacite - Large 19th Century Oil Painting of Young Lovers
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Une Affection Tacite’ by Adèle Kindt (1804-1893).
The painting – which depicts a young woman and her ardent admirer – is signed by the artist and dated ...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Woman with Flowers Resting by the Sea. 19th Century Watercolor.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful watercolor by Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) showing a woman with freshly picked flowers in a basket resting in the grass by the sea. The colors are strong and it is mounted i...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright
Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame.
Provenanc...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright
Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame.
Proven...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venus with Putti Oil on Canvas with Gilt-wood Frame
Located in Rome, IT
French 19' century painting oil on canvas . Young Venus nude figure surrounded by delicious playing putti .
Finely carved and gilt-wood frame of the same period .
Measurements w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Woman posing oil on burlap painting portrait
By Jose Puyet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - La rondeña - Oil on burlap
Oil measurements 81x65 cm.
Some areas with cracked oil paint.
Frameless.
Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the gran...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Burlap
Romanticism Italian painter - 19th century figure painting - Girl portrait
Located in Varmo, IT
Romantic painter (early 19th century) - Girl with earrings.
49.5 x 40.5 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
By Jose Puyet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 100x79 cm.
Frameless.
Slight paint chips
Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Naturalistic Continental painter - 19th century Continental landscape painting
Located in Varmo, IT
Continental painter (19th century) - Sailing boat on the lake.
46 x 77 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good condition of the pic...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Notte" Olio 48 x 33 1899
Located in Torino, IT
Notturno
Magico
Atmosfera magica
Ernst Liebermann (1869 – 1960)
è stato un pittore, grafico e illustratore tedesco.
Nel 1893 vinse la medaglia d'oro ("den grossen Schulpreis") del...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old Barn Scene of a Farm in the English Countryside by British Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Old Barn Scene of a Farm in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright.
Signed, vintage original, oil on heavy grain linen, reframed in a high qu...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
August Edouart Silhouette Cut Paper 1840 "Rev & Mrs E H Cumpston"
By August Edouart
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
"The Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Cumpston" a silhouette cut by August Edouart is in very good condition and cut by the artist sometime between 1839 - 1849. On the lower f...
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1850s Romantic Art
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Paper
Western n°6_Swan Scalabre 2023, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative_Portrait_Horse
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Western n°6"
Oil on Wood
18 x 18 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women,...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Painting of a Mountain in Lake District England by 20th Century British Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of a Mountain in Lake District England by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Prov...
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hand Painted Porcelain Vase by Sevres
Located in Troy, NY
This beautiful Sevres vase is made of porcelain with a gold design and meant to hold a single flower. This hand painted porcelain vase is ...
Category
1960s Romantic Art
Materials
Porcelain
Venus with Putti Oil on Canvas with Gilt-wood Frame
Located in Rome, IT
French 19' century painting oil on canvas . Young Venus nude figure surrounded by delicious playing putti .
Finely carved and gilt-wood frame of the same period .
Measurements w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
NYDIA, THE BLIND FLOWER GIRL OF POMPEII Marble Sculpture 1856-1870
Located in Soquel, CA
Randolph John Rogers (American, 1825 - 1892) Randolph Rogers' Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii debuted in 1856 to critical and public acclaim, solidifying Rogers’ position as a pre-eminent American sculptor and it remains one of the artist’s most celebrated works today. The subject of Nydia is drawn from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii 1834. After touring the ruins of the ancient city in 1833, and inspired by the stories of blinding volcanic ash, he composed the tale of Nydia, a slave who led her master, Glaucus, to safety. Rogers depicts Nydia at the moment that she and Glaucus have become separated in their perilous journey through the rubble and Nydia seeks familiarity in the surrounding chaos, her distress evident in her pained expression. The grace of the sculpture is at odds with the turmoil portrayed; a toppled Corinthian capital lies at her feet and obstructs her next step, indicated by the tilt of her back foot and grip on her walking stick. Examples of this model can be found in major American collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Literature, Millard F Rogers, Jr. Randolph Rogers, American Sculptor in Rome. University of Massachusetts Press, 1971, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1986. Joyce K Schiller. "Nydia, A Forgotten Icon of the Nineteenth Century." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts,
Born in Waterloo, New York, Randolph John Rogers became an expatriate* sculptor of idealized figures, portraits, and commemorative works in Neo-Classical* and Realist* styles. He worked in clay, plaster, marble and bronze, and lived both in Italy and the United States. He made 167 examples of Nydia in two sizes (varies depending on base height) 36" and 54'.
Rogers was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and as a young man did woodcuts* for the local newspaper, The Michigan Argus, and also worked as a baker's assistant and a dry goods clerk. In 1847, he moved to New York City, where he hoped to find work as an engraver*, but failing to do so, worked in a dry goods store owned by John Steward...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Marble
Realist painter (Italian school) - 19h century figure painting - Child with Ape
Located in Varmo, IT
British painter (19th century) - Child with monkey.
76.5 x 63.5cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Romantic French painter - 19th century landscape painting - Stormy sea
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th-19th century) - Roman allegory.
74 x 60 cm without frame, 81 x 67 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in wooden frame.
Condition report: Lined can...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Romantic British painter - Early 19th century landscape painting - Moonlight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (early 19th century) - Boats in the moonlight on the Thames.
30.5 x 41.5 cm without frame, 49 x 59 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in carved and gild...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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