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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Spanish Painting Gato DE LEMA Romantic Landscape Marine Seaside Port 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas Gato de LEMA Madrid, 1820 – 1883 Seaside Landscape Gouache, pencil, and watercolor on paper 28 x 38 cm (51 x 60 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left "Gato de Lema / 185...
Gouache
The Dawn of Love, Romantic Engraving after Gustave Dore
By Gustave Doré
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gustave Dore, After by Edward Paxman Brandard, French (1832 - 1883) - The Dawn of Love, Portfolio: Guinevere, Year: 1867, Medium: Engraving, Image Size: 9.5 x 7.25 inches, Size:...
Engraving
$1,814
Ebb & Flow 11, 2025 - Cornish Coastal Sand Dorset Landscape Coastal Seascape
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Ebb & Flow 11 by Ellie Davies is a Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper Ebb & Flow 11 is available in this size of 67.5cm x 90cm from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$1,814
Ebb & Flow 10, 2025 - Twilight Landscape Cornish Coastline Dorset Harbour Coast
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Ebb & Flow 10 by Ellie Davies is a Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper Ebb & Flow 10 is available in this size of 67.5cm x 90cm from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$1,814
Ebb & Flow 9, 2025 - Cornish Landscape Photography Dorset Landscape Photography
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Ebb & Flow 9 by Ellie Davies is a Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper Ebb & Flow 9 is available in this size of 67.5cm x 90cm from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2 A...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$1,814
Ebb & Flow 7, 2025 - Coastal Breeze Dorset Cornish Landscape Coastline Blue Sea
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Ebb & Flow 7 by Ellie Davies is a Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper Ebb & Flow 7 is available in this size of 67.5cm x 90cm from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2 A...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$24,741
Late 19th Century antique Orientalist oil painting of a young woman
Located in London, GB
Late 19th Century antique Orientalist oil painting of a young woman Frame: height 146cm, width 86cm, depth 7cm Canvas: height 132cm, w...
Canvas, Oil
Ebb & Flow 3, 2025 - Dorset Coastal Path Sea Horizon Blue Sky Springtime
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Ebb & Flow 3 by Ellie Davies is a Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper Ebb & Flow 3 is available in this size of 67.5cm x 90cm from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2 A...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$1,814
Ebb & Flow 2, 2025 - Ancient Natural Woodland Landscape Blue Skies Fir Trees
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Ebb & Flow 2 by Ellie Davies is a Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper Ebb & Flow 2 is available in this size of 67.5cm x 90cm from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2 A...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
World Map, Romantic Color Etching by Daniel Derveaux
Located in Long Island City, NY
Daniel Derveaux, French (1914 - 2010) - World Map, Medium: Color Etching, Image Size: 13.5 x 18 inches, Size: 15 x 19.5 in. (38.1 x 49.53 cm), Frame Size: 16.5 x 21 inches
Etching
Old New York Moody 59th Street Bridge, Romantic Archival Print, 2/15
Located in Miami, FL
Moody Manhattan. Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photogr...
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Romantic French Painting Still life Dragon Bordeaux 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Marguerite JACQUELIN Valogne, 1850 – Bordeaux, 1941 Still Life with Dragon Oil on canvas 41 x 37.5 cm (51 x 47 cm with frame) Dated and signed lower right "Jacquelin / 1882" Beautifu...
Oil
Dipinto figurativo impressionista fiorentino ritratto femminile del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il dipinto è firmato e datato in alto a destra MGordigiani 78 e le misure senza cornice sono 58 x 73 cm Raffigura una fanciulla con lo sguardo incantato, la bocca socchiusa e la test...
Canvas, Oil
$15,160Sale Price|20% Off
Feeding Horses
Located in Naples, Florida
Wright Barker (British School 1864-1931) Barker was a well-known painter of equestrian and highland scenes, though landscape and genre subjects are known. ...
Oil
The King's Farewell, Romantic Engraving after Gustave Dore
By Gustave Doré
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gustave Dore, After by Charles Henry Jeens, French (1832 - 1883) - The King's Farewell, Portfolio: Guinevere, Year: 1867, Medium: Engraving, Image Size: 9.5 x 7 inches, Size: 1...
Engraving
Young Woman and Parasol, Romantic Crayon Drawing, Early 20th Century
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper signed
Crayon, Paper
$4,054
Horses with Ploughmen in the English Countryside by Realist Landscape Artist
By James Wright
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 ...
Canvas, Oil
Study of a female nude for The Love of Gold
By Thomas Couture
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of a female nude for The Love of Gold Black chalk heightened with white on green grey wove paper c. 1844 Signed with the artist’s initials “TC” lower left Condition: Excellent ...
Chalk
Entwined
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition of 10 Maine-based photographic artist and writer Sal Taylor Kydd uses various photographic media in a personal narrative that explores themes around memory and belonging; co...
Archival Pigment
$999Sale Price|40% Off
Early 20thC Oil on Canvas Still Life, Autumn Harvest, Oranges, Hops and Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century oil on canvas still life of oranges, hops and flowers signed E Pritchard and dated 1904 bottom left, presented in period gilt ...
Canvas, Oil
From the, The Barcelona Suite
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos (Spanish, born 1935) Title: From Barcelona Suite Year: 1979 Medium: Color lithograph with embossing Edition: Numbered 1...
Lithograph
On The Beach, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By John Pacer
Located in Yardley, PA
Reference to the film and novel by Nevil Shute. Oil on Linen. The painting will be signed when purchased, if the buyer wishes. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with...
Oil
$7,160Sale Price|20% Off
Villagers on a Frozen Waterway
Located in Naples, Florida
Alexis de Leeuw was born in the Belgian town of Bruges in 1848, he painted accomplished winter scenes capturing light with great accuracy. Alexis de Leeuw died at the young age of th...
Oil
Quien se pondra el cascabel al gato?
Located in New York, NY
Etching and burnished aquatint on laid paper, circa 1824. From the four additional plates for Los Proverbios. Sheet size 11.5 x 16.75 inches. Framed dimension 17 x 21 inches. Prove...
Etching
$5,772
Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$295Sale Price|43% Off
1930s French Barbizon School Watercolour, Village and Bridge by a River, Dinard
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a French village and stone bridge by a river by Henri Clamen. The painting is dated, 1939, and titled, 'Dinard' to the back of the...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Southern Landscape, Ships, Old Master Drawing, 19th Century, by Von Stengel
Located in Greven, DE
Southern Landscape with View of a Castle and Ships passing by Pen and brush in brown and black over pencil, brown and grey wash, 17,5 x 22,7cm Plain black moulding with golden pearl ...
Paper, Gouache
Salome Watercolor on Paper, Signed 1860s French Orientalist Art
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...
Paper, Watercolor
A splendid patinated bronze statue by Mathurin Moreau
Located in New York, NY
Patinated bronze figural statue depicting Zephyrus, god of the west wind, as he embraces his bride Flora. The couple are seen draped in flowers as if they have just married. Flore et...
Bronze
Quiet Afternoon by the Stream, Watercolor on Paper, Signed, 1881
Located in Stockholm, SE
Quiet Afternoon by the Stream from 1881 portrays a tranquil riverside moment in which two men clad in brown monastic robes engage in the simple pastime of fishing. One figure sits at...
Paper, Watercolor
The Rabbit and The Cat
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pair of drawings on paper of a rabbit and a cat by Margaret Lisel. They are both signed bottom right and dated for 1934. The drawings are presented as a pair in plain gilt frames. A...
Crayon, Pencil
$3,000
#5171
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas over wood panel signature on verso Hiro Yokose paints images of nature composed in subtle, sensuous palettes. Playing with the viewer’s perceptions, his work c...
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
Finding of King Arthur, Romantic Engraving after Gustave Dore
By Gustave Doré
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gustave Dore, After by William Greatbach, French (1832 - 1883) - Finding of King Arthur, Portfolio: Guinevere, Year: 1867, Medium: Engraving, Image Size: 9.75 x 7.5 inches, Size...
Engraving
The Paddock, Romantic Engraving by John Alfred Wheeler
By John Alfred Wheeler
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Alfred Wheeler, British (1821 - 1903) - The Paddock, Year: 1894, Medium: Engraving, signed in the plate lower right, Image Size: 21.75 x 19.25 inches, Frame Size: 29 x 26.25...
Engraving
$3,998Sale Price|20% Off
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...
Canvas, Oil
'Horse Attacked by Tiger' — 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault (after), 'Tigre dévorant un cheval' (Tiger Devouring a Horse), lithograph, 3rd state of 3, Clement 97, c. 1820. Lettered 'Volmar ...
Lithograph
$1,649
19th century classic English landscape with Children, cows and cottages.
Located in GB
This painting presents a serene and luminous pastoral landscape, characteristic of 19th-century English rural imagery, where nature and human presence are harmoniously intertwined. T...
Canvas, Oil
$1,546Sale Price|27% Off
Goyesque Man Oil on Canvas Painting, Romantic Style, Circa 1980s
By Jose Puyet
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas Oil measures 100x79 cm. Frameless. Slight paint chips Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor...
Canvas, Oil
A Lady from Seville, 21st Century Contemporary Classical Portrait Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tanvi Pathare Una Donna Sevillana (A Lady from Seville) Contemporary Florence Portrait painting 95 x 80 cm oil on linen (frame included in price) size with frame: 104 x 90 cm Tanvi...
Linen, Oil
Twilight In The Wood, Romantic Engraving after John Samuel Raven
By John Samuel Raven
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Samuel Raven, After by Charles Cousen, English (1829 - 1877) - Twilight In The Wood, Portfolio: New Gallery of British Art, Year: 1882, Medium: Engraving, Image Size: 10.75...
Engraving
Dark Fire, Paperback Cover
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Paperback Cover Cover of "Dark Fire," Harlequin Books Signed Lower Right Man and Woman holding each other
Board, Oil
The Joyous Sprites, Romantic Engraving after Gustave Dore
By Gustave Doré
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gustave Dore, After by George C. Finden, French (1832 - 1883) - The Joyous Sprites, Portfolio: Guinevere, Year: 1867, Medium: Engraving, Image Size: 9.5 x 7.25 inches, Size: 16...
Engraving
Apple Orchard
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Apple Orchard" 1998, is a color off set lithograph by British/American artist Pati Bannister, 1929-2013. It is hand signed, titled a...
Lithograph
$2,500
Mother Hen
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antonio Barone American, 1889-1971 Mother Hen Oil on canvas 22 ½ by 30 in, w/ frame 29 ⅞ by 37 ⅝ in Inventory Number: 01880
Canvas, Oil
$832Sale Price|30% Off
Woman in profile with fan oil on board painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frame size 71x62 cm. Biography of Gumersindo Vila Full Name: Gumersindo Vila Date of Birth: April 14, 1950 Place of Birth: Santiago de Compostela, Spain Nationality: Spanish Artist...
Oil, Board
$236Sale Price|20% Off
Rue de la Paix, Paris - Hand Colored Lithograph 1845-1860
Located in Soquel, CA
Rue de la Paix, Paris - Hand Colored Lithograph 1845-1860 Delicate hand-colored lithograph of Rue de la Paix 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...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$450
'Cheval de Mecklembourg' — 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault 'Cheval de Mecklembourg' (Mecklembourg Horse), lithograph, 1822, 2nd state of 4, Delteil 47. Signed in the matrix 'Gericault', lower left. Published by Godefroy En...
Lithograph
Arab Man with Three Monkeys, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Franz Bergmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Bergmann, Austrian (1861 -1936) - Arab Man with Three Monkeys, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Bronze sculpture, Austria inscribed on base, Size: 3.5 x 6.5 x 5 in. (8.89 x 16.51 x...
Bronze
Ballet Dancer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Ballet Dancer" 1989 is a color offset lithograph by American artist Robert Olson. It is hand signed and numbered 140/1275 in gold felt pen. ...
Lithograph
Untitled III
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Alvar Title: Untitled III Year: c.1990 Medium: Color lithograph with embossing Edition: Numbered 148/225 in pencil Paper: Arches Image size: 16.5 x 22.5 inches Framed s...
Lithograph
David Bates Watercolour Landscape 19th Century Double-Face
Located in Roma, IT
David Bates Watercolour Landscape 19th Century Double-Face Beautiful and intense watercolour representing, on both faces, a landscape shot with rare expressive force although it is ...
Watercolor
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) Dona Clarice, 1828 drawing signed and dated
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) Dona Clarice, 1828 Titled in pencil at the top: “Destouches, the Ambitious and the Indiscreet, Act 3, Scene 9” Signed and dated at the bottom, “Deveria 18...
Ink
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Temple of Hercules Victor in Rome - Original 19th Century Italian Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Temple of Hercules Victor in Rome - Original 19th Century Italian Watercolor Antique watercolor painting showing the Temple of Hercules Victor at the Forum Boarium in Rome by Italia...
Paper, Watercolor
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. ...
Canvas, Oil
Miss Kidd
Located in London, GB
Signed and numbered Fine art print on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper Tim Bret-Day always felt like the odd one out and connected with the outsiders. Tim's dad was French, chic, and gre...
Archival Pigment
The Artist Brother Staffan Kronberg Dressed as a Prince, 1911
Located in Stockholm, SE
Executed in 1911, just three years after Margherita Kronberg graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, this early drawing portrays the artist’s younger brother, Staffan, dressed...
Mixed Media, Board, Laid Paper
'The Little Donkey' by Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven (1798 – 1881), dated 1856
By Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Located in Knokke, BE
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven Waasten 1798 – 1881 Schaarbeek Belgian Painter 'The Little Donkey' Signature: signed lower left and dated 'Eugene Verboeckhoven 1856' Medium: oil on pan...
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
$1,606
Trompe l'oeil New York street with aerial perspective, pastel-colored buildings
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
Oil, Wood Panel
Untitled #10 Female antique Bust painted and adorned. Infortunios De La Virtud
By Armando de la Garza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled #10 (female bust), 2016 from Los Infortunios De La Virtud series Antique porcelain bust with the intervention of oil, gold, silver, lea...
Stone, Gold
$1,800Sale Price|20% Off
'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, ...
Watercolor, Illustration Board