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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
Peaches
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Peaches" 1996 is a color off set lithograph by British/American artist Pati Bannister, 1929-2013. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 548/950 in pencil by the artist. Published by Masters Publishing INC, New York. The image size is 17.5 x 21 inches, sheet size is 23.5 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Pati Bannister was born in Highgate, England, overlooking London in 1929. Growing up, both of her parents were artists. Her mother painted watercolor landscapes, while her father painted portraits. To help further her natural talents, she took art lessons as a young girl and ultimately went to work for J. Arthur Rank, the movie maker, as an animator.​ At 22 years old, she came to the United States as a governess for a family in Connecticut. Later she became a flight attendant in Florida where she met her future husband, Glynn. Little did she know, he would become the strongest influence in her life as he inspired her to pursue and share her artistic abilities with the public. ​In 1958, Pati and Glynn moved to New Orleans and she started painting portraits in Jackson Square. Eventually, she opened two art galleries located in the French Quarter. In the late 1960's, they moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Lithograph

Residue Of Yesterday, Daniel Ludwig, Nude Painting, Original Oil Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Daniel Ludwig. Residue of Yesterday- this work of art is an original oil painting on linen. Size: H:76 cm x W:61 cm Daniel Ludwig is an American figurative artist who lives and wor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

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Linen, Oil

Antique Dog Lithograph Taste of Alfred De Dreux, France ca. 1870 Saint Bernard A
By Alfred de Dreux
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Saint Bernard France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches Six lithographs of dog portrait...
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1870s Romantic Art

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Lithograph

Notte. Vicino al Bosco Oil Painting, Romantic, Framed, Circa 1899
Located in Torino, IT
Opera molto suggestiva Firmato in basso a sinistra Notturno Magico Atmosfera magica Ernst Liebermann (1869 – 1960) è stato un pittore, grafico e illustratore tedesco. Nel 1893 vi...
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1890s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Gouache Of A Shipwreck In A Storm With Gothic Ruins. Early 19th Century
Located in Firenze, IT
Gouache of a Shipwreck in a Storm with Gothic Ruins, Early 19th Century Technique: Gouache on paper Period: Early 19th century Description: This romantic painting depicts a dramatic ...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Art

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Paper, Tempera, Gouache

19th Century French School, Studies of horses and small scenes, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
19th Century French School, Studies of horses and small scenes, pencil on paper 14.5 x 21 cm Framed : 25.5 x 32.7 cm This study sheet, which brings together studies of horses and...
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1850s Romantic Art

Materials

Pencil

"Seascape" - Framed 20th Century Romantic Realistic Ocean Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
I wish I knew who painted this dramatic Romantic seascape depicting a rough surf crashing on the rocky shores of some volcanic island. The sea is en...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Art

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Oil

Quran Teacher With Pupils, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Anton Chotka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anton Chotka, Austrian (1881 -1955) - Quran Teacher With Pupils, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Cold painted Bronze sculpture, stamped Austria, Size: 4.5 x 8 x 5 in. (11.43 x 20.32 x 1...
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Early 1900s Romantic Art

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Bronze

Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence, Irish Volunteers
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA 1769-1830 Portrait of a Young Officer Pastel with touches of black chalk on paper Signed and inscribed on an old label verso: "Be pleased to keep away / from the Damp & from dust / T Lawrence AE 13. / 1783." Wash mount and gilt frame Provenance W.E. Spooner; Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 17 April 2000 lot 196 Sothebys, Old Master & Early British Paintings, 14 April 2011 • London Lot 246 Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14! This is a portrait of an officer from the Irish Volunteers. The Irish Volunteers was a part-time military force raised by local initiative in Ireland in 1778. Their original purpose was to guard against invasion and to preserve law and order at a time when British soldiers were withdrawn from Ireland to fight abroad during the American Revolutionary War. As a young boy Thomas Lawrence lived with his parents who ran a coaching inn near Bath. Clearly talented from this young age, he drew the passing travellers who stopped at the inn and this soldier may have been one such sitter. Lawrence was only 13 years old when he drew this work. To capitalise upon their son's talents, the family later moved to Bath and sent Lawrence to London in 1787 where he entered the Royal Academy schools at the earliest possible age. Works from such an early period of Lawrence's creativity are rarely to be found today. This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards. When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits. Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
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1780s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil Pastel

La Delivrance De La Princesse Olga - Etching by M.Roux after E. Delacroix - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 28 cm. La Delivrance De La Princesse Olga is an original print in etching technique on ivory-colored paper, realized by M. Roux after Eugène Delacroix . In v...
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1910s Romantic Art

Materials

Lithograph

Landscape
Located in Roma, IT
Drawing on paper, XIX century. Provenance: Nino Costa’s successors. Liberio Merolli, Rome. Private Collection. This fascinating drawing was realized by Nino Costa, an Italian landsca...
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19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

"Nymphs in a Landscape" Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, 19th Century Idyllic Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña Nymphs in a Landscape Estate sale seal lower left Oil on board 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches Narcisse Diaz de la Peña was born in 1808 in...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Oil, Board

Doorway in the Temple of Kalabshe, Nubia
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Doorway in the Temple of Kalabshe, Nubia Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862 Unsigned as is usual From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, (36 plates) Published by...
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1860s Romantic Art

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Photographic Paper

Lying tiger
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on canvas 25 x 45,5 cm (34,7 x 55,2 cm with frame) = 9.8 × 17.9 in (13.7 × 21.7 in with frame) Signed lower left Stamp of sale on the back of the canvas In 1838, Eugène Delacro...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

'Garçon donnant l'avoine à un cheval dételé' — 19th Century French Romanticism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault, 'Garçon donnant l'avoine à un cheval dételé' (Boy Giving Oats to a Hitched Horse), lithograph, 1822, 2nd state of 2, Delteil 89...
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1820s Romantic Art

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Lithograph

19th Century, British, lady reading by lamplight in red tones by La Thangue
By Henry Herbert La Thangue
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A beautiful composition by the great British artist Henry Herbert La Thangue of a girl reading in warm red tones by lamplight. The details of the work are as follows: HENRY HERBER...
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19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ebb & Flow 6, 2025 - Coastal Water Full Moon Romantic Landscape Honeymoon Sea
Located in Brighton, GB
Ebb & Flow 6 by Ellie Davies is a Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper Ebb & Flow 6 is available in this size of 67.5cm x 90cm from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2 A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Oil on cardboard Art Nouveau “View of the coast of Villefranche”, Rene Charles E
Located in Valladolid, ES
Amazing and very captivating work by René His transports the viewer to the coast of Villefranche, an idyllic corner of southern France, where nature displays all its splendor. The pa...
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Early 1900s Romantic Art

Materials

Cardboard

Merchant, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Franz Bergmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Bergmann, Austrian (1861 -1936) - Merchant, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Cold painted Bronze sculpture, Size: 5.75 x 9.5 x 6 in. (14.61 x 24.13 x 15.24 cm)
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Early 1900s Romantic Art

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Bronze

Strawberries
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Strawberies" c.1985, published 1996 is a color off set lithograph by British/American artist Pati Bannister, 1929-2013. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 656/950 in pencil by the artist. Published by Masters Publishing INC, New York. The image size is 16.5 x 21 inches, sheet size is 22.25 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Pati Bannister was born in Highgate, England, overlooking London in 1929. Growing up, both of her parents were artists. Her mother painted watercolor landscapes, while her father painted portraits. To help further her natural talents, she took art lessons as a young girl and ultimately went to work for J. Arthur Rank, the movie maker, as an animator.​ At 22 years old, she came to the United States as a governess for a family in Connecticut. Later she became a flight attendant in Florida where she met her future husband, Glynn. Little did she know, he would become the strongest influence in her life as he inspired her to pursue and share her artistic abilities with the public. ​In 1958, Pati and Glynn moved to New Orleans and she started painting portraits in Jackson Square. Eventually, she opened two art galleries located in the French Quarter. In the late 1960's, they moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Lithograph

Female Oil Portrait Delicate Austria Romantic 1800s Vintage Woman Realism Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 30" x 24" Frame: 36.50" x 30.50" Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right.
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1880s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

France circa 1820, Portrait of a gentleman, black chalk and pastel drawing
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1820 Portrait of a gentleman Black chalk and pastel on paper 12 x 10 cm In its original mount, modern oak frame : 25 x 22.5 cm
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1820s Romantic Art

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Chalk, Pastel

Voyeur chair. Romantic Couple Kissing and Embracing, Mid Century Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...
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1950s Romantic Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board

'The Mischievous Little Artists' by Edgard Farasyn (1858 – Antwerp – 1938)
Located in Knokke, BE
Edgard Farasyn 1858 – Antwerp – 1938 Belgian Painter 'The Mischievous Little Artists' Signature: signed middle lower left and dated 'Edg. Farasyn 1881' Medium: oil on canvas Dimens...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Salome Bloodied Sword Femme Fatale 1860s Original French Orientalist Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Charles Alphonse Paul Bellay. French ( b.1826 - d.1900 ). Salome. Watercolor On Paper. Signed Lower Right. Image size 16.7 inches x 12.2 inches ( 42.5cm x 31cm ). Frame size 21.3 in...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Les Tuileries, Paris - Hand Colored Lithograph 1845-1860
Located in Soquel, CA
Les Tuileries, Paris - Hand Colored Lithograph Delicate hand-colored lithograph of Tuileries Palace in Paris, France printed by Rose-Joseph Lemercier (French, 1803 - 1887). Published, Paris 1843 to 1867 by Hautecoeur Freres (Eugène and Alfred Hautecoeur (French). After Charles Riviere...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Boy on Persian Rug, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Franz Bergmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Bergmann, Austrian (1861 -1936) - Boy on Persian Rug, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Cold painted Bronze sculpture, stamp signed on bottom, Size: 4 x 7 x 7.5 in. (10.16 x 17.78 x...
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Early 1900s Romantic Art

Materials

Bronze

Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Materials

Lithograph

Granite Pylon, Karnac
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Granite Pylon, Karnac Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862 Unsigned as is usual From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, (36 plates) Published by William Mackenzie,...
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1860s Romantic Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Susan, Lady Belasyse /// Memoirs of Count Grammont Royal Portrait Engraving Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Anthony Hamilton (British-French, 1645-1719) Title: "Susan, Lady Belasyse" (Plate 45) Portfolio: Memoirs of Grammont Year: 1808 (First edition) Medium: Original Stipple Engra...
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Early 1800s Romantic Art

Materials

Engraving, Intaglio

"Mother and Child in a Countryside Setting"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Adolf Luben (1837–1905) "Mother and Child in a Countryside Setting" This charming 19th-century oil painting on canvas by Adolf Luben captures a heartwarming rural scene, depicting a...
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19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Winter Wonderland"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Artist (19th Century) "Winter Wonderland" (1885) This charming 19th-century oil painting captures a winter landscape, depicting three figures trudging through the snow, engaged in animated conversation. The scene is set against a serene rural backdrop, where bare trees and a distant village silhouette convey the stark beauty of winter. The soft glow of the sky, transitioning from warm hues to cool whites, enhances the tranquil yet brisk atmosphere of a cold winter’s day. Plot & Interpretation The three travelers appear to be peasants or laborers, possibly returning home or embarking on a journey. Their layered winter clothing, fur hats, and backpacks suggest they are seasoned wanderers or workers, braving the elements. The gesturing figure in the middle seems to be engaged in storytelling or giving directions, adding a sense of movement and interaction. The snow-covered ground and delicate shadows create depth, emphasizing the hardship and resilience of rural life in the 19th century. Materials & Condition Medium: Oil on canvas Framed Dimensions: 47 x 46 cm Canvas Dimensions: 24 x 34 cm Frame: Ornate giltwood frame, enhancing the painting’s classical aesthetic Condition: Well-preserved with minor age-related patina, in line with its 1885 dating Historical Context & Artistic Style Likely influenced by Northern European realism, particularly Russian, German, or Scandinavian schools that depicted harsh winters and rural peasant life. Comparable to the works of Adolf von Meckel, Vasily Perov, or Carl...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Hyde Park on Sunday" - Hand Colored Etching from "Old and New London"
Located in Soquel, CA
"Hyde Park on Sunday" - Hand Colored Etching from "Old and New London" Detailed etching of a typical Sunday in Hyde Park around 1800 after an etching by Ed...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Materials

Lithograph

Geraniums and Flowers on a Cottage Staircase, French Mid Century Oil on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
Geraniums and flowers. French Mid Century oil on canvas view of flowers and a cottage by Edouard Le Saout. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a custom wood frame. ...
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Still Life Bouquet with Calla Lilies and Amaryllis in Chinese Vase
Located in Soquel, CA
Elegant still life with calla lilies and amaryllis by an unknown artist. Completed in a classical style, two calla lilies and two amaryllis flowers sit in a vase with Chinese designs...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Miniature"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Antique Oil Painting on Metal – 19th Century Miniature Artist: Unidentified Medium: Oil on Metal Dimensions: Framed: 19 x 17 cm Artwork: 10 x 6 cm Style: Classical / Romanticism / M...
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19th Century Romantic Art

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Metal

Romantic Mountain Landscape with Waterfall - Turn of the Century Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Romantic Mountain Landscape with Waterfall - Turn of the Century Oil Painting Vibrant painting of an alpine landscape, likely inspired by the American West by Charles Christian Eise...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Figurative -- Boys Playing Dice
By R. Hauslar
Located in Soquel, CA
Exceptional detail in this painting of boys playing dice by R. Hauslar (German, 20th Century). A Hausler interpretation of a work by the famous Bartolome ...
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1950s Romantic Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Travelers Boat at Ibrim
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Travelers Boat at Ibrim Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862 From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 3, (36 plates) Published by William Mackenzie, London, Glasgow & ...
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1860s Romantic Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family) Watercolor on paper 23 x 18 cm In quite good condition : a small tear i...
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1840s Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor

Ca. 1820 Portrait of a Woman with Kashmir shawl.
Located in Firenze, IT
Ca. 1820 Portrait of a Woman. Léon Cogniet (1794-1880, Paris), attributed. French school of 19th century. Tecnicque: oils on canvas. Dimensions: 70cm x 61cm 20th century wooden frame. Old attribution to Léon Cogniet (1794-1880, Paris) is inscribed on the wooden frame. Portrait of the restoration period, post Napoleonic wars. Stylistically the painting is found in the transition period from the late Empire period to the beginning of Romanticism. The new artistic trends can be seen in the increased naturalism, representation of the landscape/nature, in the contrasts, and in a greater emotionality of the person represented. Detailed but loose is the way to describe the winter dress...
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1820s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Drawing Chalk Portrait of a Lady Renaissance French Romantic 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Léonie POISSON (XIX) Black chalk and white chalk 56 x 45 cm (66 x 55 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower right "Léonie Poisson / Août 1845"
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1840s Romantic Art

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Chalk

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

"Woman with an umbrella sitting on a bench"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Artist (1929) "Woman with an Umbrella Sitting on a Bench" This elegant 1929 oil painting on canvas presents a refined portrait of a fashionable woman seated on a park be...
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20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woodlands, Romantic Oil on Canvas Painting by Josef Kugler
Located in Long Island City, NY
Josef Kugler, Austrian (1913 - 2011) - Woodlands, Year: circa 1968, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 24.25 x 36 in. (61.6 x 91.44 cm), ...
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1960s Romantic Art

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Oil

Painting of Napoleon III at the Naval Battle, oil on panel France
Located in Valladolid, ES
Extraordinary oil painting on panel from an exquisite French collection. It retains its original gilded wooden frame. The scene depicts a powerful and chromatic seascape, representin...
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1880s Romantic Art

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Panel

Dutch Family in the Forest
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming figurative genre painting of Dutch family in the forest. Signed illegibly lower left. Presented in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 27.25"H ...
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1930s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Materials

Oil

Antique painting, fisherman on the coast, oil on canvas.
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique painting, fisherman on the coast, oil on canvas. Frame damaged in places. Dimensions with frame.
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19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th century color lithograph figures cemetery willow tree memorial headstone
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Images like this were popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased. This lithograph shows a man, woman and child in morning clothes next to an urn-topped stone monument. Behind are additional putto-topped headstones beneath weeping willows, with a steepled church beyond. The monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one. In this case, it has been inscribed to a young Civil War soldier: William W. Peabody Died at Fairfax Seminary, VA December 18th, 1864 Aged 18 years The young Mr. Peabody probably died in service for the Union during the American Civil War. Farifax Seminary was a Union hospital and military headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The hospital served nearly two thousand soldiers during the war time. Five hundred were also buried on the Seminary's grounds. 13.75 x 9.5 inches, artwork 23 x 19 inches, frame Published before 1864 Inscribed bottom center "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier. 2 Spruce St. N.Y." Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and TruVue Conservation Clear glass, housed in a gold gilded moulding. Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

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19th Century Romantic Art

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1960s Romantic Art

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Paper, Watercolor

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Located in Fairlawn, OH
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1890s Romantic Art

Materials

Lithograph

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Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Karl Adam Heinisch Neustadt 1847 - 1923 Munich On the Shore of Lake Constance Oil on canvas Munich School 1894 Oil on canvas / lined Signed and dated lower left Size: 55 x 85 cm Fram...
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1890s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

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