Romantic Art

Old Barn Scene of a Farm in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Signed, vintage original, oil on heavy grain linen, reframed in a high qu...

Ca. 1820 Portrait of a Woman. Léon Cogniet (1794-1880, Paris), attributed. French school of 19th century. Tecnicque: oils on canvas. Dimensions: 70cm x 61cm 20th century wooden...

José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas Oil measures 100x80 cm. Frameless. Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor José Padilla, a Sp...

Romantic painter (early 19th century) - Girl with earrings. 49.5 x 40.5 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame. Condition report: Lined...

Oil on panel Signed lower right: “Marais-Milton” Dimensions: 63 x 55 cm Victor Marais -Milton was a French artist, born in 1872 in Puteaux. Early in his career he lived in Paris ...

Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series Story Lines Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...

Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series In Between Days Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...

Oil on panel Signed and dated lower left: "Ch. Van den Eycken, 1917." Oil on panel Signed and dated lower left: “Ch.Van den Eycken, 1917.” In this charming painting two kittens h...

Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series In Between Days Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...

Oil on panel Signed lower left: "Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Antwerpen, 1861." This depiction of a Happy Family clearly shows the typical style of De Braekeleer. One can read the pain...

French school of the 19th century (In the 1820s/1830s) Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm (61 x 53 cm with frame) Unsigned Stamp from the collection of the merchant Jules Nicolas Moyon Beauti...

Picking Roses French School, late 19th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 22 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: good and sound condition

Very decorative trapezium-shaped wooden panel with floral motives. The painting is slightly damaged here and there, as can be seen on pictures. Wear consistent with age.

Gala 22.0 x 16.0 x 3.0, 8.0 lbs Oil Painting Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "More than any other flower, an Orchid carries special significance. It brings back memories...

Matheus is greatly influenced by the city he now calls home -- New York has long been the epicenter of fashion, hip hop, and street art, where he feels his interest in contemporary a...

Oil on canvas Signed lower left: "Adriaan De Braekeleer, 1862" In Adriaan de Braekeleer's painting, the rustic charm of a kitchen interior comes ali...

Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right: "Ch. Van den Eycken,. 1907" The Belgian artist Charles van den Eycken studied at the Académie des ...

Oil on panel Signed lower right: "Bertin, 1870," Bertin was a French painter, he represented the details and general character of a landscape with great skill. On this painting we can see a view of the Graslei in Ghent. The Graslei is a quay in the historic city center of Ghent, Belgium, located on the right bank...

Napoleon Standing Lithograph, 1822 Signed in the stone lower left corner of image (see photo) From: Arnault, A. V. Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoleon (120 plates) Published, Paris, Librairie Historiquem 1822 Printed by C. Motte, Paris Considered to be the major pictorial treatise on Napoleon and his military conquests. Image size: 14 x 9 3/4 inches Sheet size: 23 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches Condition: Very good Horizontal prints...

Two Tango Dancers immersed in their art, strike-the-pose under the towering classical half down. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was there at the perfect moment to capture a non...

Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right: "J. Carabin, 1886" Also with a label on the back. In Jacques Carabain's painting, the Concattedrale di San Siro emerges as a timeless beacon amidst the historic tapestry of San Remo's Via Palma van La Pigna. The canvas unveils a captivating vista, capturing the architectural grandeur of the cathedral framed...

Continental painter (19th century) - Sailing boat on the lake. 46 x 77 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame. Condition report: Lined canvas. Good condition of the pic...

Oil on canvas Signed lower left: “Louis Verboeckhoven” Dimensions: 53 x 70 cm, 79 x 97 cm (framed) “Ships in open water,” is an artwork by Charles-Louis Verboeckhoven presenting ...

Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right: "A. De Wilde, 1847" This work ‘The Seduction’ by Auguste De Wilde invites viewers into a lively and bustling tavern scene, capturing the...

Fishing the Pool French School, 19th century, circa 1860's-1870's oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 25.5 x 21.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: overall good co...

Notturno Magico Atmosfera magica Ernst Liebermann (1869 – 1960) è stato un pittore, grafico e illustratore tedesco. Nel 1893 vinse la medaglia d'oro ("den grossen Schulpreis") del...

Small Neapolitan fishermen with girl. XIX century. Foreign artist active in Italy. Painting representing two children against the background of the Gulf of Naples with the volcano...

Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler Signed lower left Pencil on paper 27.5 x 44.5 cm Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm This drawing shows more particularly...

Matheus is greatly influenced by the city he now calls home -- New York has long been the epicenter of fashion, hip hop, and street art, where he feels his interest in contemporary a...

This French School portrait of a lovely young maiden is quite charming. It is not signed but is clearly by an accomplished hand. The young woman's facial expression of innocence an...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "The Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Cumpston" a silhouette cut by August Edouart is in very good condition and cut by the artist sometime between 1839 - 1849. On the lower f...

Francis Coradal-Cugat, 'Richard Wagner', etching, c. 1928. Signed, titled, and numbered ‘2/50’ in pencil with the artist’s inked fingerprint beneath his signature. A fine, richly ink...

Fur Trapper in Winter - Portrait in Oil on Canvas Majestic full length portrait of a fur trapper standing in the snow by John Pieron. A man stands an...

Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a fisherman, Signed lower right Pencil on paper 27.8 x 44 cm Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm We find in this drawing everything that makes...

Victor CARRE-SOUBIRAN Montereau (Seine-et-Marne), 18.. – 1897 Oil on canvas 76 x 56 cm (94 x 76 cm with frame) Signed lower left “Carré-Soubiran” Painting exhibited at the Salon des...

The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Images like this were popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased. This lithograph shows a man, woman and child in morning clothes next to an urn-topped stone monument. Behind are additional putto-topped headstones beneath weeping willows, with a steepled church beyond. The monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one. In this case, it has been inscribed to a young Civil War soldier: William W. Peabody Died at Fairfax Seminary, VA December 18th, 1864 Aged 18 years The young Mr. Peabody probably died in service for the Union during the American Civil War. Farifax Seminary was a Union hospital and military headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The hospital served nearly two thousand soldiers during the war time. Five hundred were also buried on the Seminary's grounds. 13.75 x 9.5 inches, artwork 23 x 19 inches, frame Published before 1864 Inscribed bottom center "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier. 2 Spruce St. N.Y." Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and TruVue Conservation Clear glass, housed in a gold gilded moulding. Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...

This one of a pair of fun and vibrant paintings of precious kittens distracted by a bumble bee are unique and original oil-on-canvas paintings by the German artist and illustrator, Meta Plückebaum...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) 'Hasta la muerte (Caprichos. Estampa 55)', ca.1881-1886 burnished aquatint, etching on vellum paper 12.1 x 8.2 in. (30.8 x 21.1 cm.) 2nd Edition ...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) 'Los Chinchillas (Caprichos. Estampa 50)', ca.1797-1799 burnished aquatint, etching on vellum paper 11.6 x 8.4 in....

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...

A stunning oil on canvas by British nineteenth century artist Joseph Thors who was a Birmingham based artist. He was a noted rustic landscape painter and he specialised in these sort...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) 'Será lo mismo (Estampa 21)', ca.1810-1014 Serie: Desastres de la guerra burnished aquatint, etching on wellum paper...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) 'Mucho hay que chupar (Caprichos. Estampa 45)', ca.1797-1799 burnished aquatint, etching on vellum paper 12.2 x 8.4 in. (30.8 x 21.1 cm.) 2nd Edi...

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg is the most important painter of of Danish painting's "Golden Age". Young Pupil of David, at 3, rue de Beaune in Paris, he remained faithful to Neo-C...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) 'Disparates. Disparate desordenado (estampa 7)', ca.1815-1819 etching, aquatint, dry point on vellum paper 11.7 x 15.9 in. (29.6 x 40.3 cm.) 1st ...

"Last Supper" is an modern, romantic art line painting by the Bulgarian artist Maestro Zhivko Zheliazkov, About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas STYLE: Romantic, Im...

Netherlands, 1819-1893 Vertin was born in The Hague. He received his first lessons from JHA Breckenheimer. Awarded in 1835, and became a student of the 'Hague Academy of Visual Arts...

Painting with a traveler on a white horse and accompanied by a dog looking up at a road sign in the form of a cross. On the roadsign is ” Arnhem”. (a town at the Rhine river in the E...

Nude Monotype in colors, 1936 Signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil (see photo) Annotated: "Orig. Monotype," dated Munchen 8 Sept. 1936" Condition: Excellent Image/plate size: 12 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches Provenance: Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago Hans Hermann...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) 'Nadie se conoce (Caprichos. Estampa 06)', ca.1797-1799 etching, aquatint, dry point on laid paper 12.5 x 8.7 in. (31.5 x 22 cm.) 1st Edition Iro...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) 'Bien tirada está (Caprichos. Estampa 17)', ca.1797-1799 etching, aquatint, dry point on laid paper 12.5 x 8.7 in. (31.5 x 22 cm.) 1st Edition Ir...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) 'Ni asi la distingue (Caprichos. Estampa 06)', ca.1797-1799 etching, aquatint, dry point on laid paper 12.4 x ...

Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) A Young Woman in Profile Signed with the monogram lower right Pencil on grey-blue paper 17.7 x 11.5 cm Framed : 36.5 x 27 cm This drawing shows Bida's tec...

Netherlands, 1817-1891 Cornelis Springer (Amsterdam, May 25, 1817 - Hilversum, February 20, 1891) was born as the fourth son of carpenter and contractor Willem Springer. Springer received training as a house painter from the house and carriage painter Andries de Wit and from his eldest brother, who was an architect, lessons in architectural drawing and perspective. After studying at the Amsterdam Academy, he painted accurately executed cityscapes with a lot of sunlight effect in Amsterdam, temporarily in Brussels and in Germany. As a member of the 'Felix Meritis' society in Amsterdam, he won a gold medal for a church interior in 1847. Together with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek...

"White" is an modern, romantic art line painting by the Bulgarian Zhivko Zheliazkov, About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas STYLE: Romantic, Impressionist, Contemp...

19th century romantic oil painting "The romantic getaway to the waterfall" This charming painting depicts a couple gazing at a majestic waterfall which is nestled in a densely green...

Swan Scalabre "Western n°1" Oil on Wood 10 x 12 in. Framed Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women,...

Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) ¨Si quebró el Cantaro¨'Tal para cual¨ Serie Caprichos. Estampa 05, ca.1797-1799 etching, aquatint, dry point on laid paper 12.4 x 8.7 in. (31.3 ...