$1,968
H 25 in W 35 in D 3 in
Church & Cottage by a River in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Church & Cottage by a River in the English Countryside by British Artist, Peter J Greenhill Art
Canvas, Oil
$1,374Sale Price|25% Off
H 24 in W 30 in D 2 in
Shire Horse & Man by Woodland River in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Shire Horse & Man by Woodland River in the English Countryside by British Artist, Peter J Greenhill
Canvas, Oil
$1,466Sale Price|20% Off
H 25 in W 35 in D 2 in
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Peter J Greenhill
Canvas, Oil
$706Sale Price|20% Off
H 7 in W 9 in D 1 in
Miniature Oil Painting of Cottage Farmhouse in Lush Green English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Century British Artist, Peter J Greenhill Art measures 7 x 5 inches Frame measures 9 x 7 inches Peter J
Oil, Canvas
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H 17 in W 21 in D 2 in
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Artist, Peter J Greenhill Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 21 x 17 inches Peter J. Greenhill
Canvas, Oil
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H 26 in W 36 in D 2 in
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Peter J Greenhill
Canvas, Oil
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H 7 in W 9 in D 1 in
Miniature Vintage Oil Painting of a Farmhouse in Lush Green English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
British Artist, Peter J Greenhill Art measures 7 x 5 inches Frame measures 9 x 7 inches Peter J
Canvas, Oil
$1,520Sale Price|20% Off
H 21 in W 24.5 in
Ladies in Poppy Meadow Picking Wild Flowers Signed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Path Across the Fields" by Paul Morgan, British 20th century signed oil on board, framed Framed: 21 x 24.5 inches Board : 16 x 20 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: ve...
Oil
$2,760Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 33 in
19th century English River landscape with figures, horses, cottage, sheep
By John Frederick Tennant
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted and very interesting composition attributed to the English landscape painter john Frederick Tennant. His work is very similar to this piece in the use of many differen...
Canvas, Oil
$3,802
H 42 in W 25 in
HUGE OIL PAINTING By MAJOR John E .Bale FINE MASTER 19th Century BRITISH SCHOOL
By John Edward Bale
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING SIGNED OLD FINE MASTER PAINTER 19th Century BRITISH SCHOOL Fine Original Antique 19th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING GOLD GILT FRAME NEW COLLECTION Of RARE ...
Oil
$9,437
H 26.5 in W 36.5 in D 3 in
19th Century landscape oil painting of a harvest in Derbyshire
By George Turner
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
George Turner British, (1843-1910) Harvesting near Barrow-on-Trent Oil on canvas, signed & dated (18)86, further inscribed verso Image size: 19.25 inches x 29.25 inches Size includ...
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th century antique landscape oil painting from Denmark
Located in Ebberup, DK
This is an original antique oil on plate landscape painting estimated to be from the late 1900s. The painting displays a romantic scenery in the forest with a small arched bridge cr...
Paint
$3,326
H 19 in W 27 in
Antique English Grand Tour Old Master Oil Figures Classical Arcadian Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Landscape English School, early 19th century, unsigned oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 19 x 27 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: The painting is in very...
Canvas, Oil
$6,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 34.25 in W 44.5 in D 3 in
18th Century, Old Master European Landscape Painting Italian School
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian School, 18th century. A masterful example of 18th-century Italian School artistry, this Old Master landscape painting captures the sublime beauty of an idealized European co...
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
$2,384Sale Price|20% Off
H 28.5 in W 41 in D 1 in
Fine Large Victorian Signed Oil Fisherman in Highland River Landscape1880's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fisherman in Highland Landscape by James Mudd (English, 1821 - 1906) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 41 inches painting: 24 x 36 inches provenance: private collection, En...
Oil
$1,732Sale Price|20% Off
H 25 in W 35 in
Fine Antique Scottish Oil Highlands Loch Scene Tranquil Pastoral Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Highland Landscape E.C Hamblin, British late 19th/early 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed dated 1914 verso framed: 25 x 35 inches canvas: 20 x 30 inches provenance: private c...
Oil
$1,720Sale Price|35% Off
H 23 in W 29 in D 2 in
Mountain Lake Oil Painting of a Loch in the Scottish Highlands by British Artist
By Andrew Grant Kurtis
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain Lake Oil Painting of a Loch in the Scottish Highlands by British Artist, Andrew Grant Kurtis M.A.(Lon) B.Des.(Hons) L.S.I.A.D. Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measures 2...
Canvas, Oil
Country Cottage
By Abraham Hulk the Younger
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Late 19th/early 20th century oil on canvas painting in the manner of Abraham Hulk the Younger (1851-1922), and George Vincent (1796-1832). These artists painted in the Dutch style, t...
Canvas, Oil
$2,647
H 18.9 in W 24.41 in
Lake Landscape - Fine English Dartmoor Devon Antique Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very beautiful early 20th century oil on canvas landscape depicting a lake with hills beyond, by Frederick John Widgery. The location is likely to be Dartmoor National Park in De...
Canvas, Oil
$647Sale Price|40% Off
H 18 in W 21 in D 1.5 in
Mountain Lake Forest Landscape Scene - Vintage Art 20th Century Oil Painting
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain Lake Forest Landscape Scene - Vintage Art 20th Century Oil Painting by J Bishop. Art measures 17 x 14 inches Frame measures 21 x 18 inches Vintage painting, ornate gold f...
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
$1,976Sale Price|40% Off
H 29 in W 41 in D 2.5 in
Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands Realist Landscape Vintage Oil Painting
By William McGregor
Located in Preston, GB
Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands Landscape Vintage Painting. A beautiful realist oil painting of the Scottish Highlands from a highly respected British Artist. Art measures 36...
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 13.5 in W 15.25 in D 2 in
"Le Passage Difficile" Impressionist Countryside Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Jules René Hervé
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic painting titled 'The Difficult Passage' depicting an afternoon along the River with Figures throughout by Jules René Hervé. Here the scene is set on a ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,681
H 30 in W 18.5 in
OIL PAINTING By MAJOR John E . Bale OLD FINE MASTER 19th Century BRITISH SCHOOL
By John Edward Bale
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING SIGNED OLD FINE MASTER PAINTER 19th Century BRITISH SCHOOL Fine Original Antique 19th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING GOLD GILT FRAME NEW COLLECTION Of RARE ...
Oil
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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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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