Examples of Paintings from the Romantic Period.

1. Paintings of the Romantic Period
1660-1837 DCE

2. William Blake’s The Great Red Dragon
and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
•The Romantic sensibility
contrasted with the Neoclassicism
being taught in the academies.
•Clash between color and design,
and the expressiveness and mood
of color.
•Emphasized in the new
prominence of the brushstroke
and impasto the artist's free
handling of paint

3. Jacque-Louis David
1748-1825: French
painter
Transitionary
painter, was
Napoleon’s
official painter
The Intervention of the Sabine Women

4. Eugene Delacroix
1798-1863: French
Painter
Noted for violent
action, love of liberty,
and post-Napoleonic
style
Death of Sardanapalus

5. Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788: English Painter
Noted for landscapes and
portraiture
Duchess of Beaufort
or
Woman in Blue

6. Francisco Josede Goya y Lucientes
1746-1828: Spanish Painter
Portrayed life and the world using
violent images and dark colors. Often
used mythical images in order to
create an illustration.
Witch's Sabbath

7. Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775-1851:
English
Landscape
painter,
influenced
Impressionism
The Battle of Trafalgar

8. The Bard by Thomas Jones (1774)
Ossian receiving the Ghosts
of the French Heroes
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (c.1801)

9. Caspar David Friedrich
The wanderer above
the sea of fog (1818)