Academic Art

Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities.

Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des beaux-arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art that followed these two movements in the attempt to synthesize both of their styles, and which is best reflected by the paintings of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart. In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", "L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", and sometimes linked with "historicism" and "syncretism".

The art influenced by academies and universities in general is also called "academic art". In this context as new styles are embraced by academics, the new styles come to be considered academic, thus what was at one time a rebellion against academic art becomes academic art.

Academic Artists:

  Aivazovsky, Ivan Konstantinovich
   Amaury-Duval, Eugene Emmanuel
   Baudry, Paul
   Baugniet, Charles
   Belly, Leon-Auguste-Adolphe
   Blaas, Eugene de
   Boldini, Giovanni
   Bonnat, Leon Joseph Florentin
   Bouguereau, William Adolphe
   Boulanger, Gustave Clarence Rodolphe
   Boutibonne, Charles Edouard
   Cabanel, Alexandre
   Carolus-Duran, Charles Émile
   Chartran, Theobald
   Cogniet, Leon
   Cormon, Fernand
   Cot, Pierre-Auguste
   Couture, Thomas
   Cox, Kenyon
   Dauzats, Adrien
   Debat-Ponsan, Edouard
   Delaroche, Paul
   Detaille, Jean-Baptiste Edouard
   Deutsch, Ludwig
   Doyen, Gabriel Francois
   Drolling, Martin
   Duverger, Theophile Emmanuel
   Edelfelt, Albert
   Enjolras, Delphin
   Falguiere, Jean Alexandre Joseph
   Firmin-Girard, Marie Francois
   Flameng, Francois
   Gérôme, Jean-Léon
   Gervex, Henri
   Gilbert, Victor Gabriel
   Gleyre, Charles
   Guillou, Alfred
   Hamon, Jean Louis
   Hansen, Constantin
   Harlamoff, Alexei Alexeivich
   Hebert, Ernest Antoine
   Heilbuth, Ferdinand
   Henner, Jean-Jacques
   Landelle, Charles
   Lefebvre, Jules Joseph
   Levy, Emile
   Makart, Hans
   Meissonier, Jean-Louis Ernest
   Mercie, Marius Jean Antonin
   Muenier, Jules A.
   Muller, Charles Louis Lucien
   Munier, Emile
   Neuville, Alphonse Marie de
   Papety, Dominique Louis
   Peel, Paul
   Pils, Isidore
   Régnault, Henri
   Robert-Fleury, Joseph-Nicolas
   Royer, Lionel Noel 
   Scheffer, Ary
   Schnetz, Jean Victor
   Siemiradzki, Henryk
   Sims, Charles
   Swan, John M.
   Toulmouche, Auguste
   van Hove, Hubertus
   Vernet, Horace
   Vibert, Jean Georges
   Von Defregger, Franz
   Winterhalter, Franz Xavier