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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
Natural Sri Lanka corn flower blue sapphires pair 3 carats
Located in Lagos, NG
Ñatural Sri Lanka corn flower blue sapphires pair for your earrings not treated not heated
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

Materials

Bluestone

Nature Piece with Cloud Play
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Nature piece with trees and cloud play, 20th century, Watercolor Technique: Watercolor on Paper Inscription: signed at the bottom: "Leo ...
Category

20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Trajan Wallis (1794-1892): Study of a robe on a female figure in back view
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Study of a robe on a female figure in back view, 19th century, Pencil Technique: White heightened Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Description: Watermark: Shield of arms with initials "AGC Provenance: From the estate of the artist. Verso: numbered: 26"" Keywords: Back view, female garment, drapery, academy study, garment study, antique garment...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Italian landscape with fortified town
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
George Augustus Wallis (1761 Merton (London) - 1847 Florence): Italian landscape with fortified town, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Descriptio...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Signed Luigia Orsi Drawing view of the Koln cathedral 19 century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing represents a lateral view over the Cathedral of Koln that doesn't want to be a faithfull copy from real but It's pervaded with a nostalgic and decadent feeling proper of...
Category

Early 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Lady Macbeth as Regal monarch immobilised in Marble with her reigning in Blooms
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue III’, 2017 Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry. Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls). Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017 Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag 40.5 x 30.5 cm Unique Series: The Sialia Marbles Signed and dated on verso "I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category

2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Watercolor, Photographic Film

Portrait of a Melancholic Woman, a Drawing signed by Léon Bonnat
Located in PARIS, FR
This drawing by Léon Bonnat, the greatest portrait painter of the Third Republic, shows a woman of indeterminate age, caught in a melancholic pose. 1. Léo...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Carbon Pencil, Cardboard

Five Wall Decoration 'En Grisaille' by Dufour, Paris, France, 19th Century
Located in Rome, IT
Five papiers peints 'En Grisaille' from the psyche´ series manufactured by Dufour, Paris, after designs by Merry-Joseph Blondel and Louis Lafitte. -'Psyche´ returning from hades.' -'...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Handmade Paper

Evening prayers by fishermen under the high coast of Celebes
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Jacob Eduard Van Heemskerck Van Beest (1828-1894) “Avondgebed; Maleidische tripang visschers onder de hoge kust van Celebes” (Ev...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Italian landscape with village
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
George Augustus Wallis (1761 Merton (London) - 1847 Florence): Italian landscape with village, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Description: View...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Dark Fire
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Paperback Cover Cover of "Dark Fire," Harlequin Books Signed Lower Right Man and Woman holding each other
Category

20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Figurative Oil Painting on Wood Painted in the manner of late Romanticism, this charming miniature pastoral landscape by Edmund Fri...
Category

1870s Romantic Art

Materials

Gesso, Oil, Board

Huge 19th century Hunting scene - Setter dogs with their prey - Hunt
Located in Antwerp, BE
Huge 19th century Hunting scene oil painting "Two setters with their trophy in a landscape" by the well-known Belgian animal painter Henry Schouten Henry Schouten was born in Indone...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still life of Tazza with red grapes- 17th Century Style Contemporary Still-life
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair "Still life with Tazza with red grapes" 55 x 42 cm ( painting) Framed the size is 93 x 79 cm (This by the artist handmade frame is included in the price) Painted i...
Category

2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

French Romantic school, Portrait of a young soldier, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, circa 1830 Portrait of a young soldier, pencil on paper Framed under glass : 38 x 30 cm It's a vintage frame, probablly original but I had the back redone T...
Category

1830s Romantic Art

Materials

Pencil

Disegno figurativo del romanticismo fiorentino matita su carta del XIX secolo
By Giuseppe Bezzuoli
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, sebbene non firmato, proviene dalla collezione degli eredi di Giuseppe Bezzuoli, come riconoscibile dallo stemma ovale Macciò Parri che si trova in basso a sinistra, ed è...
Category

1820s Romantic Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Chalk

Allegorical mythological figurative bronze from the 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Marble-based bronze statuette depicting Cupid, holding an arrow in his hand, walking caressing a lion's mane, lowered in the act of affectionately licking his little foot. The subjec...
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Marble, Bronze

‘Cats Playing around a Mirror’ by Joseph Bail (1862 – 1921), French Painter
Located in Bruges, BE
Joseph Bail Limonest 1862 – 1921 Paris French Painter ‘Cats Playing around a Mirror’ Signature: signed lower right ‘Bail Joseph’
 Medium: oil on canvas
 Dimensions: image size 45,5...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Religious Painting Good Samaritan French school 19th romantic Sketch
Located in PARIS, FR
French school in the middle of the 19th century Oil on wood 25 x 23.5 cm Trace of a signature at bottom left
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

‘Peasant Children walking the Donkeys’ by Edgar Bundy (1862 – 1922), dated 1885
Located in Bruges, BE
Edgar Bundy Brighton 1862 – 1922 London British Painter ‘Peasant Children walking the Donkeys’ Signature: signed lower right and dated ‘Edgar Bundy 1885'
Medium: oil on canvas
 Dim...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

‘Fishermen’s Cove with two fishing boats on the beach’ by Johan Hendrik Meijer
By Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer
Located in Bruges, BE
Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer Amsterdam 1809 – 1866 Utrecht Dutch Painter ‘Fishermen’s Cove with two fishing boats on the beach’ Signature: signed lower right ‘L Meijer’
Medium: oil o...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

‘Landscape with Cows and Sheep in a wide river landscape’, Eugène Verboeckhoven
By Eugène Joseph 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

‘Meal Time for all’ by Hermann Werner (1816 – 1905), signed and dated 1870
By Hermann Werner
Located in Bruges, BE
Hermann Werner Samswegen 1816 – 1905 Düsseldorf German Painter ‘Meal Time for all’ Signature: signed lower right and dated ‘H. Werner. 1870
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image ...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'A Walk along the Snowy Landscape’ by Franciscus Lodewijk Van Gulik, dated 1878
Located in Bruges, BE
Franciscus Lodewijk Van Gulik Maastricht 1841 - 1899 Rotterdam Dutch Painter 'A Walk along the Snowy Landscape’ Signature: signed lower right and dated 'Frans van Gulik 1878' Mediu...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French romantic painting Oil on paper TANCARVILLE castle Normandy 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Victor LEFRANC Paris, 1812 - ? Oil on paper 33 x 42 cm (44 x 52 cm with frame) Inscription on the verso 'Tancarville / 1839" and stamp from the Georges Lhoste collection Painter of ...
Category

1830s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
Category

1960s Romantic Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite

Horse British painter - 19th century figure painting - Hunting knight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (19th century) - Rider and hunting greyhounds. 28 x 22 cm without frame, 40 x 33 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on wood, in a gilded wooden frame. Condition r...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Painting oval KUWASSEG Marine beach boats french romantic Normandy 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles Euphrasie KUWASSEG Draveil (Essonne), 1833 – Paris, 1904 Oil on wooden panel Signed and dated lower right “C. Kuwasseg fils / July 57” 36 x 28 cm (42 x 36 cm with the frame)...
Category

1850s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

Large oil from 1902 - German school - A portrait of Sisterly love
Located in Antwerp, BE
Sweet and large oil painting "Sisterly love" signed and dated 1902 by August Algermissen The present painting depicts two sisters seated in an interior, the youngest is gleefully lo...
Category

Early 20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Romantic French Painter - 19th century figure painting - Gallant interior
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (19th century) - The arrival of the letter from the suitor. 35.5 x 29 cm without frame, 52.5 x 46.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a contemporary ...
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, 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

Frédéric Millet (1786-1859) Portrait of a gentleman, 1849 watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Frédéric Millet (1786-1859) Portrait of a gentleman, 1849 signed and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 36 x 27,5 cm framed : 44 x 35 cm Frédéric Millet is rightly renowned fo...
Category

1840s Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor

Flowering. 2015, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowering. 2015, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm
Category

2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Landscape with birch trees. 2010, canvas, oil, 79x137 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape with birch trees. 2010, canvas, oil, 79x137 cm
Category

2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Orpheus - Late 20th Century British watercolour by Robert O'Rorke
Located in London, GB
ROBERT O’RORKE (Born 1945) Orpheus Signed and dated l.r.: Rbt O’Rorke ’93; signed, dated 1993 and inscribed The Dance No.3 on a label attached to the backboard Watercolour on grey ...
Category

1990s Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor

Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
Category

Early 2000s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Seagulls in the snow. 1994. Canvas, oil, 70x112 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Seagulls in the snow. 1994. Canvas, oil, 70x112 cm
Category

1990s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Primrose and Foal: A Brood-Mare, late the Property of his Grace the Duke of Graf
Located in Boston, MA
From Celebrated Horses, Grundy 24. A fine chine applique impression in fine condition with full margins. A proof before letters. Exhibited at the Marietta/Cobb Museum in the "Celebr...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Lithograph

Moonlight over the Lake, 1912, By Swedish Artist Wilhelm Dahlbom
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present this exquisite piece by Swedish artist Wilhelm Dahlbom, entitled "Moonlight, Idö, 1912". This work captures the serene reflection of moonlight on water, the...
Category

1910s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

George H Hay, Spinning Wool, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century watercolour by Scottish artist George H Hay RSA (1831-1912) depicts four young ladies, wearing outfits synonymous with the 1820s, spinning wool within a simple...
Category

1890s Romantic Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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

19th century cat portrait painting - "Le Chat " - Ragamuffin - Maine coon
Located in Antwerp, BE
Adorable 19th century cat painting "Le Chat" painted by Alexandre Clarys This mesmerising cat gazes intently at the viewer, whilst the artist has captured his fluffy fur and sparkl...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, 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

Charlotte Shore Daughter of 1st Lord Teignmouth. Portrait in India 1792 to 1795.
By Arthur William Devis
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Arthur William Devis. English ( b.1762 - d.1822 ). Portrait of Charlotte Shore, Daughter of the 1st Lord Teignmouth 1790 - 1864. Oil on Canvas. Oval Image size 26.2 inches x 20.5 in...
Category

Early 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, 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...
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1920s Romantic Art

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Lithograph

The Citadel, Cairo, The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha. American Orientalist
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks. American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ). In the Citadel, Cairo, before The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha Watercolor. Monogram Lower Right. Image size 8.3 inches x 5.3 in...
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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

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