$2,400
H 12 in W 12 in
"Reign" (2024) By Michele Kortbawi Wilk, Oil Painting with Silver Leaf
Located in Denver, CO
Michele Kortbawi Wilk's "Reign" is a 2024 oil on linen with silver leaf, measuring 12 x 12 inches
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H 8 in W 8 in
"Gilded" (2024) By Michele Kortbawi Wilk, Oil Painting with Silver Leaf
Located in Denver, CO
Michele Kortbawi Wilk's "Gilded" is a 2024 oil on linen with silver leaf, measuring 8 x 8 inches
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"Modesty" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
mythical Unicorn in profile bowing its head. About the artist: Michele Kortbawi Wilk is a self-taught
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"Collaboration" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
: Michele Kortbawi Wilk is a self-taught artist, apart from art classes during her early years, who began
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"The Sentinel" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michelle Kortbawi Wilk's (US based) “The Sentinel” is an oil painting with silver leaf that
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H 48 in W 48 in
"Gravitas - Friesian Horse with Barn Swallows" - Equine and Bird Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michele Kortbawi Wilk's "Gravitas - Friesian Horse with Barn Swallows" is a majestic 2022 oil on
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"Unsettling Dream, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michelle Kortbawi Wilk's (US based) “Unsettling Dream” is an oil painting with silver leaf that
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"Cartoon" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michelle Kortbawi Wilk's (US based) “Cartoon” is an oil painting with silver leaf that depicts a
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"Treasure, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Chipmunk sleeping nestled in a nest of foliage. About the artist: Michele Kortbawi Wilk is a self-taught
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Tempting Fate, Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
lion with a crown and blue birds. About the artist: Michele Kortbawi Wilk is a self-taught artist
Oil
$2,250Sale Price|70% Off
H 86.62 in W 70.87 in D 1.46 in
Large Horse Oil Painting. Contemporary Equestrian Oil Painting 220 x 180 cm
By Rubins J. Spaans
Located in ALP, ES
This large figurative oil painting is a reinterpretation of two paintings by John Vanderbank, A young gentleman riding a schooled horse, 1729 / Man on horseback, 1728. A unique oil p...
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Raw Linen, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Pencil
$64,790
H 48 in W 58 in
An equestrian portrait of Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier, 1st Earl of Ligonier
By David Morier
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
David Morier (c.1705–1770 London) An equestrian portrait of Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier, 1st Earl of Ligonier (1680–1770) Oil on canvas Canvas size - 40 x 50 in Framed size - 48 ...
Oil
$6,200Sale Price|20% Off
H 32 in W 38 in D 2 in
Antique Masterful Frame American Winter Impressionist Snowy Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted winter impressionist landscape by Allen Dean Cochran (1888 - 1971). Oil on canvas. Housed in a spectacular, period, gold giltwood frame. Signed.
Canvas, Oil
$1,012
H 8 in W 10 in
Fine Equestrian Horse Portrait British Oil Painting - Horse standing
By British Sporting Art
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Horse British School, 20th century oil painting on panel, unframed paintings size: 8 x 10 inches condition: excellent provenance: from a private collection here in Engl...
Oil, Panel
$2,360Sale Price|20% Off
H 13 in W 18 in
French 19th century Chickens in a landscape
By Charles-Emile Jacque
Located in Woodbury, CT
French 19th century Chickens in a landscape Charles-Emile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of animals (animalier) and engraver who was, with Jean-François Mill...
Oil, Wood Panel
Horse 609
By Brian Hibbard
Located in Atlanta, GA
My paintings and sculptures bridge ancient and modern sensibilities. The subjects are often classical figures and portraits, but my use of materials is pure expressionism. I am mos...
Canvas, Mixed Media
Bannack Horses
By Theodore Waddell
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Summer Horse, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This horse was just one in the midst of a crowd at the Santa Fe rodeo - a group that was waiting in the pens behind the action," shares artist Heather Foster...
Acrylic
Avio Blue Murano Glass Chandelier
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning “Avio” blue Murano glass chandelier made of hand-blown glass and featuring 16 arms. This exquisite fixture has an intricate process consisting of two passes with the glass f...
Murano Glass
$6,742
H 27.56 in W 39.77 in D 1.19 in
19th century Landscape, country horses, dog ploughing George Wright
By George Wright
Located in York, GB
GEORGE WRIGHT Plough Team horses and a Dog in a Landscape, oil on canvas A fine painting from the renowned equine artist George Wright. This oil on canvas depicts the 2 horse plough ...
Oil
1900's Horses at the Trough
By William Lemos
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century oil painting of two horses at watering trough by William M. Lemos, Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist (American, 1861-1942), circa 1900. Writing on verso is in ...
Oil, Cardboard
$1,925
H 18 in W 22 in
"Dust Storm" by Morgan Cameron, Oil painting Featuring Galloping Horse
By Morgan Cameron
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Dust Storm” is an oil painting on panel that depicts a red and white horse galloping with it's mane flowing. This painting is framed and ready to hang. ...
Oil, Panel
$6,209
H 21.5 in W 29.5 in D 2.5 in
19th Century landscape oil painting of a Sussex harvest field at sunset
By Walter Williams
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Walter Williams British, (1834-1906) Harvest Field at Sunset, Clayton near Brighton Sussex Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 15.5 inches x 23.5 inches Size including frame: 21.5 inc...
Canvas, Oil
$187,500
H 102 in W 84.5 in D 22.5 in
Exceptional 19th Century English Chinoiserie Pagoda Display Cabinet
Located in Houston, TX
Large-scale 19th century English display cabinet executed in the Chinoiserie tradition. Constructed in carved mahogany and conceived as a tripartite architectural façade, each glazed...
Glass, Mahogany
Paul Revere Coffee Pot
By Paul Revere
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sterling Silver Coffee Pot Paul Revere Circa 1775 This phenomenal and incredibly rare silver coffee pot by the legendary patriot Paul Revere is one of only six armorial coffee pots ...
Sterling Silver
Antique Meissen 68-Piece Floral Dinner Service
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in London, GB
Antique Meissen 68-piece floral dinner service German, c. 1900 Largest serving dish: Height 6cm, width 52.5cm, depth 37.5cm Square salad bowl: Height 9.5cm, width 22cm, depth 22cm...
Porcelain
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Animal paintings depict the beauty and power of nature in an elegant way that can complement any room. Interacting with animals has long captured the imagination and has been interpreted in diverse artistic media.
Some of the oldest works of art have included animals, such as a cave painting found in Indonesia dating back more than 45,500 years that shows a wild pig in red ocher pigment. Animals have continued to appear in every era and style of art, from realism to Pop art and everything in between.
Some paintings portray animals in their natural habitat, highlighting the majesty of wild creatures roaming the plains, forests and jungles. These paintings often feature deer, tigers, wild mustangs and other wildlife. Others focus on domestic animals such as dogs — pay a visit to the Museum of the Dog if you don’t believe us — as well as cats and how they interact with the world and their owners.
Picking the right animal painting for a room — as well as knowing how to arrange your new wall art — can take time. But, in the end, it will tastefully reflect your interests and passions. While an expansive landscape painting helps open up a small space, hanging a horse painting in a den shows a love for equine culture and can invite interesting conversation.
There is animal art to fit every collection on 1stDibs. Explore a wide selection of animal paintings and animal prints in a range of styles and designs to match any home or office.