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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
Ceiling of the Paris Opera House
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Ceiling of the Paris Opera House The value is in the beautiful framing. Please note the shipping cost as the piece is very large (frame is 47" x 47"). In 1960, the Minister of ...
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20th Century Romantic Art

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Ink, Paper

Rare Southern Painting of the French Broad River, North Carolina ca 1890
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is an unsigned, but rare, late 19th century oil on canvas of a view of the French Broad River in North Carolina. It is amongst the world’s oldest rivers. The scene depicted is m...
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1880s Romantic Art

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Oil

Hand-Me-Downs - Street Children - Waif - Cockney Gutter Imps.
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her i...
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Early 1900s Romantic Art

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Paper, Ink, Pen

ADAM Marine tempest rescue boats romantic french painting ISABEY 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Hippolyte Benjamin ADAM Paris, 1808 – 1853 Oil on canvas 54 x 73 cm (61 x 80 cm with frame) Signed lower left “h. Adam" 19th century black wooden frame Hippolyte Adam is a painter o...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

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Oil

Woman Bathing at Moonlight, Original Oil on Canvas, French Romantic School
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame This enigmatic French painting, likely from the early 20th century, exhibits a mysterious and evocative atmosphere characteristic of the Romantic movem...
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Early 1900s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Miniature Pastoral Landscape 19th century Romanticism Oil Painting on Wood
Located in Stockholm, SE
Pastoral Landscape with distant river valley in haze, flock, cattle watering and figures in lightly wooded foreground - Idyllic scene painted in oils by unknown professional mid-19th...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, pencil on paper 25.7 x 16 cm (view) Framed : 41.8 x 31.5 cm The style and execution are v...
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1850s Romantic Art

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Pencil

Nostalgy. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative oil on canvas painting by Polish artist Katarzyna Szydlowska. Painting pictures female in nude. She is sitting on the beach, there is sea and cliff behind her...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Melancholy... Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative oil on canvas painting by Polish artist Katarzyna Szydlowska. Painting pictures two females in nude- one is covering herself and the other one is holdind bouq...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Seated Female Nude (two studies)
By Pierre Saint-Ange Poterlet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude Charcoal on tan paper Signed: Poterlet bottom center (see photo) Provenance: Alfred Barrion, Lugt 76 lower right recto (see photo) Eric G. Carlson, 1985 Very good...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Charcoal

Antique Oil Painting of Washington’s Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pa ca 1890’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
This unsigned late 19th century painting portrays the property used by George Washington as his headquarters during the American Revolution. Known as the Isaac Potts House, it was bu...
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1890s Romantic Art

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Oil

Egyptian Buffalo and Farmers. Camel Rider. Egypt.American Orientalist.Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks. American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ). Egyptian Buffalo and Farmers. Egypt. Watercolor. Monogram Lower Right. Image size 5.1 inches x 8.3 inches ( 13cm x 21cm ). Frame size...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

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Paper, Watercolor

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 1862. Born into a family o...
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1860s Romantic Art

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Oil

Natural yellow sappire not heated not treated 3.5 carat
Located in Lagos, NG
Natural yellow sappire not heated not treated pure stone weight 3.5 caratsThis stunning 3.5 carat yellow sapphire is a must-have for any jewellery collection. The pear-shaped gemston...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

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Precious Stone

Twilight Landscape with Windmill and Church, 1891
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Twilight Landscape with Windmill and Church" is a captivating work by Swedish artist Albert Larsson, painted in 1891 when Larsson was 22 years old. The painting captures a landscape...
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1890s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

The artist at work by Constant Cap (1842-1915)
By Constant Cap
Located in Gent, BE
Oil on panel Signed lower right: "C. Cap, 1882 Antwerpen" Also signed on the back. Constant Cap's "The artist at work" intricately weaves a narrative within a room brimming with ...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

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Wood Panel, Oil

Les Mille et Une Nuits. French Orientalism School of the Late 19th Century. 1892
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
A. Lesueur French 19ème siècle Les Mille et Une Nuits – One Thousand and One Nights, 1892 Charcoal on paper heightened with white. Signed & dated 1892 lower right. Image size 23.6 i...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

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Paper, Charcoal

Spaniels Chasing Pheasant
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Charming oil painting on canvas by renowned genre artist George Armfield (1808-1893), of two dogs chasing a pheasant. The expression of sheer dog happiness in the chase. and the phe...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right. A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Art

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Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil

Waiting for the memories to come, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
„Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.“ The work of art is painted in the oil technique, with the application of relief details an...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

La Port De Cannes, 1930. Vieux Port, French Riviera. Côte d'Azur. Paul Delvaux.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Paul Delvaux. Belgian ( b.1897 - d.1994 ). La Belle Anna, La Port De Cannes, 1930 Watercolor, Bodycolor & Pastel on Woven Paper. Signed & dated 1930 lower left. Image size 15.7 inch...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Moonlight Sonata - Romantic Oil Landscape Painting, 2023
Located in Boston, MA
Moonlight Sonata 47.0 x 32.0 x 1.5, 7.0 lbs Oil Paint Hand signed by artist Description: An original oil painting by Lee Campbell. This Romantic style ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

THOMASSIN Attributed Austrian landscapes romantic pair painting Brazil 19th
By Desiré Thomassin
Located in PARIS, FR
Désiré THOMASSIN (Attributed to) Vienna, 1858 – Munich, 1933 Oil on panel 32 x 50 cm (42 x 60 cm with frame) Inscription on the back “Thomassin / Braz...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

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Oil

Disegno italiano, ritratto di signora con cuffia, matita su carta del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno in questione è molto probabilmente uno studio dal vivo per un ritratto da riportare successivamente in pittura, come si può notare dall'intensità dello sguardo e dall'alta...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Art

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Pencil, Paper

James Ward The Fisherman's Family
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Precious Watercolor attributed to James WARD (1769-1859) - England, 1830-1840. The Fisherman' S Family. Measurements : View : 20"x14.6" (51x37 cm), With frame : 26.6"x21.5" (67.5x54....
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1830s Romantic Art

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Paper, Watercolor

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
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

Materials

Bluestone

The Daily Tasks of Rural Life, c. 1860, Romanticism Oil Painting.
Located in Stockholm, SE
This serene landscape painting is by James Howe Carse, a Scottish-Australian artist whose lineage and mentorship are deeply rooted in the artistic traditions of his time. Carse's wor...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

'Stonehenge at Sunset', Royal Academy, RSBA, Benezit, Wiltshire, Druid, Celtic
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'R. Gallon' for Robert Gallon (English, 1845-1925) and painted circa 1880. This well-listed landscape and seascape painter maintained a studio in St John's Wood, ...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Illustration Board, Watercolor

19th Century Danish Drawing and Watercolour Study of a Tree at Indelluket
By Thorald Læssøe
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century watercolour drawing and watercolour study of a tree by noted Danish artist Thorald Læssøe. The work is monogram signed bottom left and there is an annotation in the ...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

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Watercolor, Pencil, Paper

GRANDJEAN romantic landscape painting fishermen italian lake french 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Charles GRANDJEAN Active between 1833 and 1857 Oil on canvas 33 x 41 cm (46 x 54 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower right “Grandjean / 1835” Beautiful Restoration period fram...
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1830s Romantic Art

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Oil

Landscape with cattle in watercolor
Located in DEVENTER, NL
This beautifully excecuted landscape with cattle in watercolor was made by Abraham Hendrik Winter (1800-1861). Winter was born in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in 1800 and was a teacher ...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

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Watercolor, Paper

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...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Watercolor Interpretation of the The Raft of the Medusa After Théodore Géricault
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour on paper interpretation of the Raft of the Medusa by English artist Derek Carruthers. The work is signed and titled to the back of the paper. A vivid and engaging interp...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Girl In Red Dress Looks At The Sea - Graceful Illustrative Romantic Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Aleksandra (Ola) Pawlikowska born 1988, Warsaw, student of the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the years 2007-2012 she studied Art History at the Univer...
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2010s Romantic Art

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Acrylic, Board

French Romantic School, 19th Century, Portrait of a man, oil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School, 19th Century Portrait of a man, a selfportrait ? oil on paper 17.5 x 12 cm oval Framed under glass : 43 x 34.5 cm This rather mysterious portrait is perhaps ...
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1860s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

Lady, 1830 Era, Portrait With Micromosaic Bracelet.
Located in Firenze, IT
Lady, 1830 era, portrait with micromosaic jewelry. A richly detailed portrayal of 1830s fashion, this rare testament to jewelry history vividly ca...
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1830s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shoemaker at Work - Portrait in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Shoemaker at Work - Portrait in Oil on Masonite Lovely portrait of a cobbler at work by Max Schneider (German, 1903-1980). The shoemaker is holding a ha...
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Masonite

19th Century Architectural Danish Drawing & Watercolour of Frederiksborg Castle
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century watercolour drawing of Frederiksborg Castle by noted Danish artist Thorald Læssøe. The work is monogram signed to the back of the paper where there is another drawin...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

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Pencil, Watercolor, Paper

Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
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...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
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...
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1980s Romantic Art

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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...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Lithograph

Jules-Eugène Lenepveu (1819-1898) Portrait of a man in profile, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu (1819-1898) Portrait of a man in profile signed on the lower right Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper 19.5 x 13 cm Framed : 29 x 22.7 cm Jules...
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1860s Romantic Art

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Gouache, Pencil

Oil portrait of woman and child
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Edwin Howland Blashfield was born in New York and as he grew up, he prepared for a life as an engineer: studying at Harvard, Boston, and MIT. He later grew into a love of art and beg...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Edward Lear, Extensive Greek or Roman Landscape, Temple, Ruins, British Art
By Edward Lear
Located in Greven, DE
Most accounts of the artistic achievements of Edward Lear (1812–1888) take as their starting point the notion that he is better known as the writer of nonsense verse than as a topographical draughtsman and painter. His art is then considered largely in isolation, as the extraordinary creation of a fascinatingly eccentric Victorian. However, Lear's art is outstanding. Although Lear suffered from epilepsy, asthma, poor eyesight, and chronic depression, he was an inveterate traveler and an indefatigable sketcher, documenting a lifetime of journeys throughout the Mediterranean and India. During his two-month tour to Athens, mainland Greece and the island of Euboea, Edward Lear made almost 150 landscape drawings and kept a diary of his experiences and impressions. Many years later, Lear’s travelling companion, Charles Church...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Watercolor

Edward Lear, Extensive Greek Italian Landscape, Antique Ruins, Campagna di Roma
By Edward Lear
Located in Greven, DE
Most accounts of the artistic achievements of Edward Lear (1812–1888) take as their starting point the notion that he is better known as the writer of nonsense verse than as a topographical draughtsman and painter. His art is then considered largely in isolation, as the extraordinary creation of a fascinatingly eccentric Victorian. However, Lear's art is outstanding. Although Lear suffered from epilepsy, asthma, poor eyesight, and chronic depression, he was an inveterate traveler and an indefatigable sketcher, documenting a lifetime of journeys throughout the Mediterranean and India. During his two-month tour to Athens, mainland Greece and the island of Euboea, Edward Lear made almost 150 landscape drawings and kept a diary of his experiences and impressions. Many years later, Lear’s travelling companion, Charles Church...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Watercolor

Portrait of a gentleman, 19th century portrait of a man, antique portrait man
Located in AIGNAN, FR
A classic romantic portrait of a man on stretched canvas in a rectangular frame with an oval setting. This painting was found in France but is likely to be of German origin. A gent...
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1840s Romantic Art

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Oil

Study for Republic Standing
By Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for “Republic Standing” Graphite on calque tracking paper, c. 1848 Signed lower right corner: Vigneron Provenance: Shepherd Gallery, New York ...
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1840s Romantic Art

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Graphite

Mirror, Portrait of a Woman belle époque
Located in New York, NY
Heinrich Kuhn was a German photographer who primarily printed in "photogravure". A high quality and lovely form of printing from the negative that compli...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

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Photogravure

Louis DAVID (1798-1849) Le Moulin La Butte aux Cailles, Paris, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Alphonse DAVID (1798-1849) Le Moulin de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris, (The Mill at la Butte aux Cailles) signed lower left Pencil and white chalk on paper 22,5 x 36 cm Framed : 40,5 x 55 cm Louis-Alphonse David is known for a relatively small body of work, including portraits and large compositions. In any case, in this work he shows a remarkable mastery of drawing, with particularly suggestive and subtle plays of light and shadow. The Butte aux Cailles, now part of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, was a hill covered in meadows, vineyards and woods, built with several windmills and overlooking the river Bièvre. It was named after Pierre Caille...
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1830s Romantic Art

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Pencil, Chalk

Siren. Original Contemporary.Watercolor Painting.Fairy.Mythical.LP Cover-esque
By Liz Wall
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Liz Wall. Welsh ( XX - XXI ). Siren. Watercolor and Ink. Signed and Dated 2011 Lower Right. Image size 11.4 inches x 18.9 inches ( 29cm x 48cm ). Frame size 25.6 inches x 26.8 inch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Paris street, France
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series Story Lines Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
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2010s Romantic Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

The triumph of the goldsmith Claude Ballin (1615-1678), allegorical composition
Located in PARIS, FR
Edmond PETITEAU 19th century, French The triumph of the goldsmith Claude Ballin (1615-1678), allegorical composition Painting, oil on fine canvas glued to a wooden panel (mahogany), ...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Oil

Palm Trees in Mist, Los Angeles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo Fair (Italy)...
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2010s Romantic Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Large Dramatic Colorful Evening Sunset in Chilly Snowy Landscape with Fox
Located in Charleston, US
In Beth Carlson's large and mesmerizing romantic winter landscape and fox painting, "Tis the Season," enchantment unfolds through the elegant contours of snow-draped barren trees. Th...
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2010s Romantic Art

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Oil

French Romantic school, Portrait of a young man, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, circa 1840 Portrait of a young man, charcoal on paper 22.5 x 17 cm In good condition, however, there is a restoration of the paper in the upper right-hand qu...
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1840s Romantic Art

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Charcoal

Romantic Post Impressionist Oil - Family get-together in the park in 1929
Located in Antwerp, BE
Romantic post-impressionist oil painting "A Family get-together in the park" in 1929 Edouard Thiébaut was a Belgian painter born in 1878 in Schaarbeeck, he specialised in sweet, tra...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

German School, Animal Hunting Scene, Hunter with Dogs, Hares, Cabinet Painting
Located in Greven, DE
German School or Swiss School, 19th Century, Hunting Scene, Hunter with Dogs, Hares, Painting indistinctly signed. Fine and detailed painted scene of a hunt with dogs, a hunter and h...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Canvas

Horse Drawn Plough with Two Horses Ploughman and Dog by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Horse Drawn Plough with Two Horses, Ploughman and his Dog. Signed, Oil on Canvas, housed in a gilt frame, by British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Art measures 24 x 16 inches Fram...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

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