$920Sale Price|20% Off
H 16 in W 15 in D 1.75 in
"Needle Work" Young girl by the Window original Oil on Linen
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in Soquel, CA
and Art at the Source, painted murals at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and at the Elizabeth
Linen, Oil
Boy Picking Flowers
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in San Francisco, CA
Source, painted murals at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and at the Elizabeth Seton Center in Menlo
Oil
Sold
H 39.65 in W 41.75 in D 2.5 in
"Boy on Carousel" large oil painting
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in San Francisco, CA
Source, painted murals at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and at the Elizabeth Seton Center in Menlo
Oil
Apple Bloom
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in San Francisco, CA
and Art at the Source, painted murals at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and at the Elizabeth
Lithograph
Boy Playing Cello
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in San Francisco, CA
the Sebastopol United Methodist Church, participated in Art Trails and Art at the Source, painted
Oil
Boy building a Sand Castle
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in San Francisco, CA
and Art at the Source, painted murals at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and at the Elizabeth
Oil
Saturday Afternoon
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in Soquel, CA
Sebastopol United Methodist Church, participated in Art Trails and Art at the Source, painted murals at St
Canvas, Oil
$6,187
H 32 in W 28 in
Portrait Of A Girl In White, circa 1900 Portrait Of A Girl In White Hugh RAMSAY
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Girl In White, circa 1900 Portrait Of A Girl In White Hugh RAMSAY (1877-1906) Large circa 1900 edwardian portrait of a girl in white, oil on canvas. Excellent quality...
Canvas, Oil
$439Sale Price|20% Off
H 12 in W 10 in
Antique Victorian English Oil - Fine Posed Lady Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School, late 19th/ early 20th century. The painting came from a large collection of works by one artist. A very few of them are signed what looks to be 'F. Wa...
Oil
$2,144Sale Price|20% Off
H 28 in W 24 in D 1 in
Fine Edwardian Portrait of a Lady 1900's British Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady British School, early 1900's Circle of Samuel Luke Fildes (1843-1927) British. Bust Portrait of a Lady, Oil on canvas, 24" x 20" (61 x 50.8cm) plus gilt swept f...
Canvas, Oil
$108,222
H 21.66 in W 33.47 in
"A Reverie During The Ball", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Rogelio Egusquiza
By Rogelio de Egusquiza y Barrena
Located in Madrid, ES
ROGELIO DE EGUSQUIZA Spanish, 1845 - 1915 A REVERIE DURING THE BALL signed and dated "Rog. Egusquiza 1879" (lower right) oil on canvas 21-3/4 x 33-5/8 inches (55 x 85 cm.) framed: 28...
Canvas, Oil
$796Sale Price|20% Off
H 23 in W 15 in D 2 in
Antique Paris School Early 1900's French Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist portrait oil painting of two young girls. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 10L x 18H.
Canvas, Oil
$4,250
H 28.25 in W 24.25 in D 2.5 in
"Mother & Child" Post-Impressionist Interior Scene Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Jacques Zucker
Located in New York, NY
A charming oil painting depicting an interior scene of a mother and child reading together while sitting on a table round table with a mantel, and a window on the background with the...
Canvas, Oil
$35,000
H 60 in W 36 in D 3 in
"Reading in the Study" Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting Woman in Pink Dress
Located in New York, NY
An Early 20th Century elegant portrait oil painting by Gordon Stevenson depicting a pensive young woman seated in a serene, indoor setting wearing a light pink gown with delicate, ru...
Oil, Canvas
$21,999
H 42 in W 37 in D 2 in
Self Portrait with Cat - Scottish 1920's Art Deco Oil Painting female artist
By Helen Margaret MacKenzie
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning Scottish 1920's self portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish female artist Helen Mackenzie. Painted circa 1929 the composition is the head and shoulders of the artis...
Oil
$3,607
H 5.91 in W 9.85 in
PRIVATE READINGS - Angelo Granati Italian Figurative Oil on Canvas Painting
By Angelo Granati
Located in Napoli, IT
Private readings - Angelo Granati Italia 2013 This is his reinterpretation of a greatest old master painting "Comparisions"by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Oil on wood cm. 15x25. Fram...
Bronze
$32,999
H 44 in W 36 in D 2 in
Portrait of a Girl with a Puppy - Scottish Edwardian art portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning Edwardian portrait oil painting is attributed to Scottish Kirkcudbright School artist William Stewart MacGeorge. Painted circa 1910, The painting shows the influences o...
Canvas, Oil
$5,444Sale Price|20% Off
H 31 in W 27 in D 2 in
Large Victorian Signed Oil Painting Lady Artist Seated Sketching in Garden 1862
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Female Artist Sketching in the Garden by Arthur Rankley (British, 1819-1872) signed and dated 1862 with monogram oil painting on canvas, in antique period gilt frame canvas: 24...
Canvas, Oil
$6,874
H 33.5 in W 26.5 in D 3.25 in
19th Century genre portrait oil painting of a girl with a writing slate
By Charles Sillem Lidderdale
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Charles Sillem Lidderdale British, (1831-1895) The Scholar Oil on canvas, signed with monogram & dated (18)94 Image size: 26.5 inches x 19.5 inches Size including frame: 33.5 inche...
Canvas, Oil
$8,657Sale Price|20% Off
H 35.83 in W 32.29 in
Albert Dumoulin, around 1900, "La Curieuse", Interior Scene with a Young Lady
Located in Berlin, DE
Albert Dumoulin, around 1900, "La Curieuse", interior scene with a young lady Enchanting interior oil painting. Portrayal of an inquisitive young lady. With decorative ornate frame....
Canvas, Oil
$16,499
H 29 in W 24 in D 2 in
Interior with Lady Reading - Scottish Edwardian 1910 art portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb Scottish Edwardian Impressionist interior oil painting is by noted Scottish female artist Annie Rose Laing. Painted circa 1910, the composition is the interior of a room...
Oil
$8,176
H 36.23 in W 31.5 in D 1.97 in
Lady at Dressing Table - Original Painting
By Delphin Enjolras
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
"Lady at dressing table" Oil on canvas signed and dated right below 1929 Old original frame gild with leaves Dim canvas : 72 x 56 cm Dim frame : 92 X 80 cm ENJOLRAS Delphin (1857-...
Oil
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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