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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
Period: 1990s
Nava Creek Bottom, Nacogdoches, Texas
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson David H. Gibson is a lifelong photographer whose first contact with the medium was in his father's darkroom before he could read. Gibson received a B.A. from Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana, and an M.A. at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His early work in theater lighting...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Silver Gelatin

Jack Russell Puppies seated with a Kitten
By Debbie Allwright
Located in Woodbury, CT
Debbie Allwright is an English painter and book illustrated. Her skill and quality of drawing is first rate.
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1990s Romantic Art

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Watercolor

Landscape with Cattle Grazing in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Landscape with Cattle Grazing in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beauti...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

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

Painting of a Mountain in Lake District England by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of a Mountain in Lake District England by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Prov...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

women in the park oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Llampayas (XX) - women in the park - oil on canvas Oil measures 60x73 cm. Frameless. Catalan cartoonist who lived a large part of his life in Brazil, where he had his family a...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Painting of Lake & Mountains in England by 20th Century British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Lake & Mountains in England by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Painting of Lake & Trees in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Lake & Trees with Birds in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a ...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Painting of Farm with Geese in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Farm with Geese in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage Series No.111 Art measures 10 x 8 inches (approx.) Frame measures 15 x 13 inches (approx.) James Wright was born in Peterborough in 1935 and now lives in Lincolnshire. James is a self-taught artist and a leading exponent of the traditional English landscape style. His early work concentrated on the busy fishing villages around the coast of Norfolk, Cornwall and Sussex. More recently, his traditional landscapes mainly feature the East Anglian and Lincolnshire countryside. About the English Heritage Collection From the most powerful to the most humble, from Bronze Age axes...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Country Lane with Trees & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Country Lane with Trees & Birds in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Painting of Woodland Trees in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Landscape Oil Painting of Trees in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Winter Landscape Snow Scene in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Winter Landscape Scene with Snow & Winter Trees in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Rural Farm House Scene with Hens in English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Farm House Scene with Hens in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a bea...
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1990s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Melancholy female figure oil on canvas painting
By Josep Maria Draper
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep María Draper was born in 1931 and received a great creative influence from the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting tha...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Farm Scene with Haystacks in the English Countryside by Realist Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Farm Scene with Haystacks in the English Countryside by British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a gilt frame ...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Musa II. Beautiful woman playing instrument. Still life on abstract background
Located in Segovia, ES
Musa II. Beautiful woman playing an instrument and still life was painted by Goyo in 1997. Date and signature appear in the lower left corner. It is done with acrylics in a 122 x 6...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Horses with Ploughmen in the English Countryside by Realist 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 ...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

PORTRAIT OF REBECCA AT THE FOUNTAIN - In the Manner of Guffens - Oil on paint
Located in Napoli, IT
Portrait of rebecca at the fountain - I. Di Matteo Italia 1998 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x60 This magnificent painting by I. De Matteo is the rein...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

The Flowers Bed. 1998. Oil on linen, 50x60.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The Flowers Bed. 1998. Oil on linen, 50x60.5 cm
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Linen, Oil

Mountainscape
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century oil on board view of a valley and mountains in a landscape. Initialed HL (for Hermann Lauschner) and dated bottom right. Signed in full on the frame and the backboa...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Acrylic, Board, Oil

An English scene of a Donkey and Rabbits in a field, with wild flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas.. This piece was drawn ...
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1990s Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor

Christmas night with Donkeys, a Robin and Lambs in a stable by a crib
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas.. This piece was drawn ...
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1990s Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor

Courtship ritual
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil

"My valley". Oil. Sheila Querre French cloudy sky romantic style landscape.
Located in Segovia, ES
"My valley" oil on canvas by French artist Sheila Querre Dimension: 65 cm H x 92 cm W x 3 cm D The colours of the original work are lighter than those on the photo. The picture is i...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Green and blue French landscape. Sheila Querre oil on canvas Romantic style
Located in Segovia, ES
"Green and blue landscape" oil on canvas by French artist Sheila Querre Dimension: 65 cm H x 92 cm W x 3 cm D The colours of the original work are lighter than those on the photo. T...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Casting, figurative painting (beautiful women and colorful masks)
Located in Segovia, ES
"Casting", painted by the Spanish artist Goyo Domínguez in 1995, is a romantic, colorful picture that smoothly joins the figurative and abstract worlds. "Casting" was painted with a...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

The Little House. Sheila Querre oil on canvas green and blue romantic landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
"The Little House" oil on canvas by French artist Sheila Querre Dimension: 65 cm H x 92 cm W x 3 cm D The colours of the original work are lighter than those on the photo. The pictur...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

#1909
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on canvas Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky a...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Encaustic

Christmas night with Donkeys, a Robin and Lambs in a stable by a crib
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas.. This piece was drawn ...
Category

1990s Romantic Art

#3022
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

An English Terrier Puppy with a Kitten playing with a Christmas decorations
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting a terrier puppy with a kitten playing with a Christmas decoration under the Christmas tree This piece was drawn as an illustration f...
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1990s Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor

The water of my thoughts, Oil Sheila Querre romantic purple and blue landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
"The water of my thoughts" or "L'eau de mes pensées" oil painting romantic style by Sheila Querre Dimension art: 54 cm H x 73 cm W x 2 cm D or 21 " H x 29" W x 0.7" D Dimension fram...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

#1919
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on canvas Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky a...
Category

1990s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic

"Letters to a Lady"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Harlequin Signed lower right. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator since the 1970s.
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1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

"A Tall Dark Stranger"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Balantine books Signed lower right. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator since the 1970s.
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1990s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

An Unlikely Attraction
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This painting was published as the cover for An Unlikely Attraction by Melinda McRae, Signet Regency Romance, Signet Books, 1991. Illustration of a young couple. Signed lower r...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Acrylic, Board

Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...
Category

1990s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Romantic art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Romantic art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hiro Yokose, Francisco Goya, Leo Primavesi, and Dipen Bose. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Romantic art, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $119 and tops out at $1,300,000, while the average work sells for $2,213.

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