Romanticism

Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch is an 1830 religious painting by American folk Edward Hicks. Analysis of Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch was painted between 1826 and 1830 by Edward Hicks, who was a Quaker preacher and painter who rendered many versions of the Peaceable Kingdom. At a time of […]

German painter Eduard Magnus created Return of the Palikaren while in Italy in 1836. Here he shows in gesture, expression, and even coloring the high sentimentality of the late Romantic phase. This picture depicts a man in mythological Greek dress, perhaps a soldier, who is reunited with his family after a long engagement. Eduard Magnus’s

German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich created The Oak Tree in the Snow in 1828. Friedrich typical themes included the solitary consciousness and absorption in nature. In this natural scene in which a blasted and winter oak tree stands out from the snow, we are reminded of the trials of life – the tree is

The Temple of Segesta is an 1843 landscape painting by English American Romantic artist Thomas Cole. Analysis of the Temple of Segesta English-born American painter Thomas Cole paints in 1843 the Temple of Segesta, outside the ancient Sicilian city of Segesta. Set in an expansive landscape under an azure Mediterranean sky, an artist in the

English artist J.M.W. Turner here paints Melrose Abbey in a scene suffused with natural light and shows a Romantic fascination with the picturesque of ruins. Also, the single figure of a man stands in the background in front of the massive window. Painted in 1822, this picture too is Romantic in that it conforms to

1818’s Easter Morning by German painter Friedrich Overbeck depicts Jesus Christ blessing Mary Magdalene. The colours of the landscape and robes, and different levels in the picture show a return to the devotional images of the early Renaissance, such as the work of Giotto. Overbeck was part of the Nazarene school of art in Germany.

Decatur Boarding the Tripolitan Gunboat is an action packed historical scene by Irish-American painter Dennis Malone Carter recalls the confrontation and capture of a boat from Tripoli under Turkish colours, seen in the left background. Stephen Decatur was commissioned by the US government to combat the activities of pirates in the Mediterranean. This event took

Portrait of Paganini is an 1832 painting by French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix. It is located in the Philips Collection in Washington D.C. Analysis of the Portrait of Paganini Eugene Delacroix limits the use of color in this 1832 portrait of Paganini, the world-famous Italian violinist. French Romantic artist Delacroix heard him play in Paris

Thomas Lawrence painted this Portrait of King George IV in 1822, two years after his coronation. Already an avid art collector, King George comissioned the most successful portrait painter in England at the time to create this rather informal depiction of the new King. Thomas Lawrence’s Portrait of King George IV was purchased by Sir

The Great Pyramid of Giza by Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky is an 1871 monument to a monument. The pyramid, a symbol for the sublimity and possibility of human endeavour, is juxtaposed with the sublime warm North African light. Nature and man complementing each other. Ivan Aivazovsky’s The Great Pyramid of Giza is in a private

The Ninth Wave is an 1850 Romanticised seascape painting by Russian-Armenian painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is located in is in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Analysis of Aivazovsky’s The Ninth Wave The painting is known for its dramatic portrayal of a tumultuous sea and a group of survivors clinging to the remnants of

The Murder of the Children of King Edward is an 1835 historical painting in the Romantic style, by German artist Theodor Hildebrandt. It is in the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Germany Analysis of Hildebrandt’s The Murder of the Children of King Edward This picture shows the moment before the sleeping sons of Edward IV of

Theodor Hildebrandt’s 1829 work The Robber the title character is shown with his gun and on a scale in the picture space that allows an examination of psychology. In the Romantic tradition, as Hildenbrandt is, the artist often identified with the social outsider – as shown here. Theodor Hildebrandt’s The Robber is in the National

San Giorgio Maggiore in the Morning by English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner we are presented with a Venetian scene. Such is Turner’s organisation of space – the building is in the distance – that San Giorgio Maggiore seems to almost dissolve into the atmospheric effects in which the artist revels. Painted in 1819, Turner made

In The Deer in Petworth Park by the English painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), the objects and creatures of the external world are treated as if a vehicle for self-expression. Pentworth Park in West Sussex, South East England is renowned for having the largest herd of Fallow deer in the world. The deer of the title

French painter Gustave Courbet was exiled to Switzerland in 1873 for involvement in the socialist revolutionary Paris Commune two years earlier. It was during this time in 1874 when he painted View of Lake Geneva (View of Lac Leman in his native French). This is one of the artist’s final works, he died three years

The Archers by Scottish portrait painter Henry Raeburn is a 1789 double portrait depicting Robert Ferguson of Raith and Ronald Craufurd Ferguson. Robert Ferguson of Raith on the left side of the painting with a bow and arrow at the ready and to his right is his younger brother Sir Ronald Craufurd Ferguson. Painted in

This 1822 oil on canvas portrait painting by English painter Sir Thomas Lawrence is of King George IV of England. This painting can be found in the Wallace Collection in London, United Kingdom. Analysis of Lawrence’s Portrait of King George IV Thomas Lawrence was the President of the Royal Academy at the time this portrait

British painter John Constable’s 1832 The Opening of Waterloo Bridge seen from Whitehall Stairs is of commemoration, that is it is a reportage of the opening of Waterloo Bridge on the 18th of June in 1817, the second anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Again Constable affords a great expanse of the painting to the

The Two Sons of the 1st Earl of Talbot is a 1793 double portrait painting by English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy Thomas Lawrence. This work is located in the is in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Germany. Analysis of The Two Sons of the 1st Earl of Talbot This portrait of