Romanticism Paintings & Artworks

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Francisco Goya (Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes) was born in 1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain. He died in 1828 at the age of 82 in Bourdeaux, France. He studied art under Anton Raphael Mengs and Francisco Bayeu y Subias, who's sister he married. In 1799 he was chosen as the Spanish royal painter. Goya lived through the time of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, producing series of anti-war etchings, Los Caprichos and The Disasters of War. He was influenced by Diego Velasquez and El Greco. [More...]

J.M.W. (Joseph Mallard William) Turner was born in 1775 in London, England. He died at the age of 76 in 1851, also in London. In 1789, at the age of 15, he entered the the Royal Academy of Art, where Sir Joshua Reynolds was one of the instructors. He traveled widely in Europe, visiting Paris, studying the master painters in the Louvre, Venice, Switzerland, and other places which provided inspiration for his art. Turner's atmospheric landscapes and seascapes mark him out as belonging to the Romantic movement, but also prefigure more modern art movements, from Impressionism (due to his focus on light) to Abstract Expressionism (due to his emphasis on expressive design over representation). The English landscape painter, John Constable was born a year later than Turner and was at the Royal Academy of Art at the same time, although they never became friends). [More...]

Eugene Delacroix was born in 1798 in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, near Paris, France. He died in 1863 at the age of 65, in Paris. It is believed that Delacroix's father didn't sire him due to impotence, but that his real father was the French diplomat and ambassador, Tallyrand. Winning awards for drawing when young, Delacroix studied under the Neo-Classicist painter, Pierre-Narcisse Guerin. He was influenced by Peter Paul Rubens and the Romanticist painter Theodore Gericault. [More...]