Romantic Paintings for the Living Room

Here are 101 Romantic paintings for the living room, painted between 1786 and 1891, with works by Camille Corot, Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Constable; the subjects they return to most are landscapes, and rivers and lakes. Above a sofa or fireplace it needs real scale, about two thirds of the furniture's width, so the famous works that suit it are landscapes, harbors, gardens and city views painted to be seen from across a room.

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Stoke-by-Nayland, John Constable 36 × 48 in landscape print (91 × 122 cm), centered 61¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Large English country landscape painting, farmers with horses, green trees.

John Constable Stoke-by-Nayland, 1836 Art Institute of Chicago

Large marine landscape of boats on rough waves, storm clouds.

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish, 1837–38 Art Institute of Chicago

Whalers, Joseph Mallord William Turner, ca. 1845, oil on canvas

Joseph Mallord William Turner Whalers, ca. 1845 The Met

We look across an expanse of a flat, grassy lawn at the towering spire of a stone church outlined against billowing clouds in this horizontal landscape painting.

John Constable Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close, 1820 National Gallery of Art

Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1836–37, oil on canvas

Joseph Mallord William Turner Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm, 1836–37 Art Institute of Chicago

Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead, John Constable, 1828, oil on canvas

John Constable Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead, 1828 Cleveland Museum of Art

We look out onto a landscape with low, grassy hills to the left, a lake to the right, and a brick building in the center distance below a sky filled with towering white clouds in this horizontal painting.

John Constable Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816 National Gallery of Art

Painted in golden tones of butter and harvest yellow, tawny brown, and olive green, this horizontal landscape painting has a low wall stretching diagonally from the lower right corner off to our left, dividing a river to our right from a…

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mortlake Terrace, 1827 National Gallery of Art

Butter-yellow clouds and water, a periwinkle-blue sky, and pale plum-purple buildings blend in hazy, indistinct bands across this horizontal landscape painting.

Joseph Mallord William Turner Approach to Venice, 1844 National Gallery of Art

We look across a glittering waterway lined with long, low boats and sailboats at an ivory-white church in the distance to our right in this horizontal landscape painting.

Joseph Mallord William Turner Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, 1834 National Gallery of Art

A band of indigenous Americans ride horses toward and through a herd of buffalo, which spreads along a river that winds through plains to mountains in the deep distance in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt The Last of the Buffalo, 1888-1889 National Gallery of Art

The top three-quarters of this horizontal landscape painting is filled with roiling, deeply shadowed clouds that tower over a line of buffalo crossing a grassy meadow below.

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, 1869 National Gallery of Art

We look across the gleaming, forest-green surface of a lake at the foot of tall, jagged mountains in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877 National Gallery of Art

We hover over the bottle-green surface of a river as it rushes toward a horseshoe-shaped waterfall that curves away from us in this horizontal landscape painting.

Frederic Edwin Church Niagara, 1857 National Gallery of Art

We look across a palm-tree lined river winding into the distance before a monumental, snow-covered mountain at the center of the composition in this horizontal landscape.

Frederic Edwin Church Tamaca Palms, 1854 National Gallery of Art

Honey-gold sunlight from low along the horizon to our left falls across the copper and bronze-colored canopies of trees that frame our view of a stone church with stained glass windows and ornate spires in this horizontal landscape…

Thomas Cole The Return, 1837 National Gallery of Art

In a verdant green landscape, a stone castle sits on a tree-lined hill in the distance in front of a high, craggy mountain peak while eighteen armored knights ride toward us along a bridge and path in this horizontal painting.

Thomas Cole The Departure, 1837 National Gallery of Art

Landscape, Camille Corot, c. 1870/1875, oil on canvas

Camille Corot Landscape, c. 1870/1875 National Gallery of Art

This painting displays an outdoor scene with a large tree to the left and a low horizon with a few buildings and what look like boats floating on blue water on the right.

Camille Corot Souvenir of Terracina, 1864, reworked slightly later National Gallery of Art

Four people wearing earthy brown gather near a stream that runs through a lush forest carpeted and filled with moss, pine, and sage green trees and undergrowth, interlaced with thin, willowy tree trunks in this horizontal landscape…

Camille Corot The Eel Gatherers, 1860/1865 National Gallery of Art

Through a golden haze and across an expanse of gently rippling water dotted with boats, ghostly ivory and parchment-white buildings rise along a distant shore in this loosely painted horizontal landscape.

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1843 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a man riding a white horse away from us on a dirt road winding through a sun-drenched, rocky landscape in this horizontal painting.

Camille Corot A View near Volterra, 1838 National Gallery of Art

We look across a wide, low clearing at a mountain rising beyond rocky hills, which are mostly covered in pines and blazing red and orange autumn trees, in this horizontal landscape painting.

Thomas Cole A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 1839 National Gallery of Art

Hulking mountains are mostly backlit against a watery blue sky edged with shell pink along the horizon, which comes about two-thirds of the way up this horizontal landscape painting.

Thomas Cole Sunrise in the Catskills, 1826 National Gallery of Art

From a little above a dirt road, we look past a grove of trees to a broad plain and a lake at the foot of towering, hazy mountains in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt Lake Lucerne, 1858 National Gallery of Art

We look across a rocky, grass-covered promontory at a crumbling, round brick tower overlooking topaz-blue water in this horizontal landscape painting.

Thomas Cole Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower, 1838 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts a pastoral scene with grassy marshland dotted with several yellow haystacks. A river winds through the flat green landscape, and on the right side a shallow boat sits next to the edge of the water.

Martin Johnson Heade View of Marshfield, c. 1866/1876 National Gallery of Art

A dirt path winds through a field of gold-green grass back to a town built on low hills in this horizontal, densely hazy landscape painting. Several minuscule people walk on the path and at least one person rides a horse.

Sanford Robinson Gifford Siout, Egypt, 1874 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts a vast countryside from an elevated point of view. At the bottom of the painting is a wide brown and green field that appears to be growing wheat or a similar crop.

George Inness Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley, 1867 National Gallery of Art

Tall, billowing, lavender-purple and shell-pink clouds line the distant horizon over a vast plain of flat grassy land in this horizontal landscape painting.

Martin Johnson Heade Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes, c. 1871/1875 National Gallery of Art

We look across the tops of trees down onto the roofs of a cluster of buildings and then a grassy expanse, a body of water, and rolling hills in this notably wide landscape painting. The trees are painted with shades of pine and olive green.

Théodore Rousseau Panoramic Landscape near the River Moselle, c. 1830 National Gallery of Art

A large, dark sailing ship to our left is stranded near the shore, angled dramatically away from us, in choppy waves under a periwinkle-blue sky streaked with gray and copper-colored clouds in this horizontal painting.

Asher Brown Durand The Stranded Ship, 1844 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a bay that curves away from us into the distance and to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. C-shaped, shallow waves lap at the sandy beach from our right.

Worthington Whittredge Second Beach, Newport, c. 1878/1880 National Gallery of Art

Sunlight, Théodore Rousseau, c. 1848/1850, oil on wood

Théodore Rousseau Sunlight, c. 1848/1850 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a landscape with a wide river on the right flowing through green hills.

John Frederick Kensett View on the Genesee near Mount Morris, 1857 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts a rural landscape with a shepherdess tending to a flock of sheep on a tree-lined dirt path. She is facing away from us and wears a blue skirt with a white shirt and a white bonnet covering her hair.

George Inness Hillside at Étretat, 1876 National Gallery of Art

The painting displays a dark green field stretching into the distance. A line of trees and small, indistinct structures can be seen near the center of the painting.

George Inness Harvest Moon, 1891 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a landscape with tall, blue, snow-capped mountains in the distance. There are blue and purple clouds in the yellow sky.

Jasper Francis Cropsey View of Mt. Washington, 1881 National Gallery of Art

We look across a waterlogged path at a line of rust-red and bronze-brown trees that nearly span the width of this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted, which creates a blurred look.

Théodore Rousseau After the Rain, c. 1850 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a landscape scene with a body of water, trees, reflections, and a house in the distance. The composition shows a low horizon line with trees arching across the scene and soft reflections on the water's surface.

Charles-François Daubigny Sunset on the River, 1874 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a woodland scene with tall trees surrounding a small, still pond. The trees and grassy ground are painted in shades of olive-green, rusty orange, yellow ochre, and dark brown.

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña The Frog Pond, 1876 National Gallery of Art

We look across and down into a valley with a person sitting near a tall tree and a train puffing smoke beyond, all enclosed by a band of mountains in the distance in this horizontal landscape painting.

George Inness The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856 National Gallery of Art

We look out onto a sweeping, panoramic view with trees, their leaves fiery orange and red, framing a view of a distant body of water under a sun-streaked sky in this long, horizontal landscape painting.

Jasper Francis Cropsey Autumn - On the Hudson River, 1860 National Gallery of Art

Across a short stretch of sand in front of us, waves of bottle-green water break over two boulders on the shoreline, with sailboats in the water beyond, in this wide, horizontal painting.

Martin Johnson Heade Rio de Janeiro Bay, 1864 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a view overlooking a valley with a river in the distance. The almost-cloudless sky is painted in shades of light blue with faint pink near the horizon.

George Inness View of the Tiber near Perugia, 1872-1874 National Gallery of Art

A placid river winds past low hills with cows to fields blanketed with trees leading back to mountains lining the horizon in this hazy, horizontal, landscape painting.

Asher Brown Durand A Pastoral Scene, 1858 National Gallery of Art

A pink-toned sandy beach meets a placid body of pale blue water under a hazy sky in this horizontal landscape painting.

John Frederick Kensett Beach at Beverly, c. 1869/1872 National Gallery of Art

Near the center of the painting, a masted wooden ship floats against a vibrant sunset that fades from lilac purple to carnation pink along the horizon line, which comes about a quarter of the way up this horizontal landscape.

Fitz Henry Lane Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1863 National Gallery of Art

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