Paintings of the Romantic Period

1660-1837 DCE
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
 Jacque-Louis David
1748-1825: French
painter

Transitionary
painter, was
Napoleon’s
official painter

The Intervention of the Sabine Women

 Eugene Delacroix

1798-1863: French
Painter

Noted for violent

action, love of liberty,
and post-Napoleonic
style

Death of Sardanapalus
Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788: English Painter

Noted for landscapes and

portraiture

Duchess of Beaufort
or
Woman in Blue
 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
Joseph Mallord William Turner

1775-1851:
English
Landscape
painter,
influenced
Impressionism

The Battle of Trafalgar

The Bard by Thomas Jones (1774)

Ossian receiving the Ghosts

of the French Heroes
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (c.1801)
 Caspar David Friedrich

The wanderer above

the sea of fog (1818)