Who were the best Dark Romantic painters?

William Bouguereau. What is amusing is that Bouguereau realized this painting just after graduating from Les Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1850. At the time Dark Romanticism is booming and Bouguereau seize the opportunity to realize Dante et Virgile aux Enfers (Dante and Virgile in Hell) kicking-off his career. read more

At the time Dark Romanticism is booming and Bouguereau seize the opportunity to realize Dante et Virgile aux Enfers (Dante and Virgile in Hell) kicking-off his career. Although greatly influenced by Ingres and Delacroix, Bouguereau have his own style and works primarily on softer and more jovial Mythological representation. read more

"Romanticism is not an art movement but an ethos overarching centuries," said Max Hollein, the director of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. A new exhibition there, "Dark Romanticism," examines the "ethos" of Romanticism in the work of artists from Goya to Max Ernst. read more

With the exception of William Blake, who practiced a more visionary art, the English Romantic painters favored landscape. Their depictions, however, were not as dramatic and sublime as their German counterparts, but were more naturalistic. The Norwich School was a group of landscape painters that developed from the 1803 Norwich Society of Artists. read more