Ferdinand Knab

(1837 – 1902) 

Wikipedia only in German:

Ferdinand Knab war ein deutscher Maler. Knab war anfangs Schüler Heideloffs in Nürnberg, bei dem er zwei Jahre lang praktisch im Bauwesen beschäftigt ward, und ging 1859 nach München, um sich der Architekturmalerei zu widmen. Er besuchte die Schulen Arthur von Rambergs und Pilotys und ging 1868 nach Italien. Seit seiner Rückkehr behandelte er mit Vorliebe Motive aus diesem Land und war dazwischen vielfach mit Arbeiten für den Wintergarten des Königs Ludwig II. in der Münchner Residenz und für das Schloss Linderhof beschäftigt. Ferner schuf Knab acht Bilder für den königlichen Pavillon des Münchner Bahnhofs. 1870 wurde er mit dem Bühnenbild für Mozarts „Zauberflöte“ an der Hofoper beauftragt.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Knab

Translation:
Ferdinand Knab was a German painter. Knab was initially a student of Heideloff in Nuremberg, with whom he was practically employed in construction for two years, and went to Munich in 1859 to devote himself to architectural painting. He attended the Arthur von Rambergs and Pilotys schools and went to Italy in 1868. Since his return he had a preference for motifs from this country and in between was often busy with work for the winter garden of King Ludwig II in the Munich Residence and for the Linderhof Palace. Knab also created eight pictures for the royal pavilion at the Munich train station. In 1870 he was commissioned with the stage design for Mozart's "Magic Flute" at the Court Opera.

Südliche Ansicht mit Ruinen eines antiken Tempels 

(A Southern Landscape with Ruins of an Antique Temple)
Circa 1900
Oil on canvas
72 x 58
Private collection
https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/7201681/

 Albert Bierstadt
 (1830 - 1902) 

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt

Ruins of Paestum
1858
Oil on canvas
56 x 91cm
MiA (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1861/ruins-of-paestum-albert-bierstadt

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamp
 (1803 - 1860)
 

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was a French painter noted for his Orientalist works.
Decamps was the founding father of Orientalism since he revealed everyday Oriental life in the 1831 Salon in Paris. His subjects and style with strong contrast of light and thick material became the reference for painters but also photographers and writers. He was the most influential painter on Orientalism and was proclaimed the chief of the new Orientalist School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Gabriel_Decamps

Un campement bédouin (A bedouin encampment)
Oil on canvas
Private collection

George Arnald
(1763 – 1841) 

George Arnald ARA was a British painter who specialised in landscapes, including topographical views to illustrated county histories. He is best known for his celebrated painting depicting the Battle of the Nile. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Arnald

The ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, with figures and livestock in the foreground, and Glastonbury Tor beyond
Oil on canvas
120 x 147 cm
Museum of Somerset
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/glastonbury-abbey-41243/view_as/grid/search/collectionx:somerset-county-council-1212--makers:george-arnald-17631841/page/1

Michael Angelo Rooker
 (1746 - 1801)
 

Michael Angelo Rooker was an English oil and watercolour painter of architecture and landscapes, illustrator and engraver. He was also the principal scene painter at the Haymarket Theatre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Angelo_Rooker

St. Mary's Abbey, York
Circa 1778
Oil on canvas
71,1 x 91,4 cm
Yale Center for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1025

Claude Lorrain
(1600 - 1682)

<i> Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. His landscapes are usually turned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by the addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology.  </i>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lorrain

Capriccio with ruins of the Roman Forum
Circa 1634
Oil on canvas
79,7 x 118,8 cm
Art Gallery of South Australia
https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/capriccio-with-ruins-of-the-roman-forum/23904/

 Jean Lemaire
(1598 - 1659)
 

Jean Lemaire was a French painter. He is also known as Lemaire-Poussin, due to his frequent close collaborations with Nicolas Poussin. He specialised in landscapes and classical architectural scenes, populated with mythological figures in classical dress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lemaire_(painter)

Ruinenlandschaft mit Hirten (Landscape with ruins and a shepherd)
Circa 1630
75 x 60 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/1062/

Aelbert Cuyp
(1620 – 1691) 

Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp , he is especially known for his large views of Dutch riverside scenes in a golden early morning or late afternoon light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelbert_Cuyp

Ubbergen Castle

Circa 1655

32 x 54 cm

The National Gallery, London

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/aelbert-cuyp-ubbergen-castle

 Sanford Robinson Gifford
(1823 - 1880)
 

Sanford Robinson Gifford was an American landscape painter and a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A highly-regarded practitioner of Luminism, his work was noted for its emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Robinson_Gifford

Ruins of the Parthenon, 1880
Oil on canvas
69,5 x 132,7 cm
National gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.121547.html

 

 

David Roberts
(1796 - 1864)    
 

David Roberts RA RBA  was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–40). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roberts_(painter)

Baalbec - Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus
1840
Oil on canvas
182,2 x 132 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/david-and-julia-roberts

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796- 1875)
 

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot

Ruins of the Château de Pierrefonds
Circa 1830 - 1835 (reworked circa 1866-67)
Oil on canv106,4 cm
Cincinnati Art Museum
https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=11296492

 Caspar David Friedrich
(1774 - 1840)

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich

Ruine eines Kirchenchors im Abendlicht ("Huttens Grab")
Circa 1823
Oil on canvas
93 x 73 cm
Schloss Weimar

Jean-Victor Bertin
(1767 - 1842) 

Jean-Victor Bertin was a French painter of historical landscapes, inspired by Italy and known for the minute detail of his classical style. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Victor_Bertin

The Ruins of the Bridge of Augustus at Narni
Oil on canvas
25 x 36 m
Private collection (Sold by Sotheby’s NY, 27 January 2011 for 92,500 USD)
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/important-old-master-paintings-sculpture-n08712/lot.372.html

 

Wijnand Nuijen
(1813 - 1839)

Wijnand Jan Josephus Nuijen was a Dutch painter and printmaker who specialised in landscapes, and was greatly influenced by the French Romantics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijnand_Nuijen

River Landscape with Ruins
1838
Oil on canvas
99 x 141,5 cm
Rijksmuseum
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-1092

 The next artist was for me unknown before I started researching this theme:

 Emanuel Murant
(1622 - 1700) 

Emanuel Murant is a rather unknown Dutch Golden Age painter of landscapes and houses.

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Murant

Ruined farm.
Between 1650 and 1700
Oil on canvas
33 x 41 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-281

Georges Michel
 (1763 -1843) 

Georges Michel  was a French landscape painter. An important precursor of the Barbizon school, Michel was practically unknown during his lifetime, and worked as copyist and restorer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Michel_(painter)

Stormy Landscape with Ruins on a Plain
Between 1831 1835
Oil on canvas
55,6 x 80,6 cm
National Gallery of Art
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/probably-by-georges-michel-stormy-landscape-with-ruins-on-a-plain

 Jodocus Sebastiaen van den Abeele
(1797 - 1855)
 

Josse-Sébastien van den Abeele ou Jodocus Sebastiaen van den Abeele, wass a Belgian painter and watercolourist mainly known for his landscapes. He was a pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris, before completing his training in Rome, then in Florence. 

Wiki-page only in French:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josse-S%C3%A9bastien_van_den_Abeele

View of the Colosseum in Rome
1837
Oil on canvas
73,9 x 110 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
https://www.mskgent.be/nl/collectiestuk/gezicht-op-het-colosseum-rome

Antonio Joli
(1700 - 1777)
 

Antonio Francesco Lodovico Joli was an Italian painter of vedute and capricci. He studied in Rome under Giovanni Paolo Panini, and in the studios of the Galli da Bibbiena family of scene-painters. He became a painter of stage sets in Modena and Perugia. In 1732 he moved to Venice, where he worked as stage-painter for opera productions at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo and the Teatro San Samuele of the Grimani family. In 1742 he went to Dresden, and then to London (1744–48) and Madrid (1750–54).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Joli

Temple of Poseidon at Paestum
Late 1750’s
Oil on canvas
74 x 101,5 cm
Private collection
https://www.robilantvoena.com/artists/71-antonio-joli/works/73/

Marco Ricci
(1676 -1730) 

Marco Ricci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Through the prompting of Charles Montagu, 4th Earl of Manchester, and British ambassador to Venice, in late 1708 Ricci traveled to England, and on his way there he stopped in the Netherlands to study Dutch landscape painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Ricci

A Classical Landscape with Ruins
Ca. 1725
gouache on vellum with tack-over edges
29.9 x 43.8 cm
National Gallery of Canada
https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/a-classical-landscape-with-ruins

 Nicolaes Berchem
(1620 -1683) 

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Pieterszoon_Berchem

 

Landscape with Ruins
1675
Oil on canvas
68,5 x 82,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/230/

 John Constable
(1776 - 1837)
 

John Constable RA was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable

Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames--Morning after a Stormy Night
1829
Oil on canvas
121 x 164 cm
Yale Centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5001

 Jacob van Ruisdael 

 (1629 - 1682)

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_van_Ruisdael

Entrance Gate of the Castle of Brederode
1655
Oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art
https://www.philamuseum.org/collection/object/102357

 J. M. W. Turner
(1775 - 1851)

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner

Barnard Castle
Ca. 1825
Watercolour
28,5 x 41,3 cm
Yale Centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5477

Canaletto
 (1697 -1768) 

Giovanni Antonio Canal commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Painter of city views or vedute, of Venice, Rome, and London, he also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clearcut.[3] He was further an important printmaker using the etching technique. In the period from 1746 to 1756 he worked in England where he painted many views of London and other sites including Warwick Castle and Alnwick Castle.[4] He was highly successful in England, thanks to the British merchant and connoisseur Joseph "Consul" Smith, whose large collection of Canaletto's works was sold to King George III in 1762.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaletto

Capriccio: Ruined Bridge with Figures
Circa 1740’s
Oil on canvas
35 x 68,5 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O132458/capriccio-ruined-bridge-with-figures-oil-painting-canaletto-giovanni-antonio/

Thomas Cole
(1801-1848)

Thomas Cole was an English-American painter known for his landscape and history paintings. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's work is known for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cole

The Course of Empire. Desolation
1836
Oil on canvas
100,3 x 161,2
The MET (New-York Historical Society)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/692372

The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833–1836. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevitable decay. The theme of cycles is one that Cole returned to frequently, such as in his The Voyage of Life series. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State; The Arcadian or Pastoral State; The Consummation of Empire; Destruction; and Desolation. All the paintings are oil on canvas, and all are 39.5 inches by 63.5 inches (100 cm by 161 cm) except The Consummation of Empire which is 51″ by 76″ (130 cm by 193 cm).

 Frederic Edwin Church

(1826-1900)
 

Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Edwin_Church

The Parthenon
1871
Oil on canvas
113 x 184 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10482

Church visited Greece in 1869 and spent several weeks in Athens. There, he painted numerous studies and oil sketches of the ruins of the Parthenon that later served as the basis for this work. Although he intended to paint a large canvas of the Parthenon while still in Greece, it was not until 1871 that a commission from the financier and philanthropist Morris K. Jesup permitted Church to begin this large canvas.

Louwrens Hanedoes
(1822 - 1905)
 

Louwrens Hanedoes was a Dutch landscape painter; in the Romantic style at first, later turning to Realism. Shortly after 1850, he became one of the first Dutch painters to visit Barbizon, where he was strongly influenced by the Barbizon school of artists and changed to a more realistic style of painting. Many critics consider his work to be a precursor to the Hague School. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louwrens_Hanedoes

 

Mountainous Landscape with a Ruin
1849
Oil on canvas
43 x 65 cm
Rijksmuseum

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-1816

Carl Moll
(1861 - 1945)
 

Carl Julius Rudolf Moll was a prominent art nouveau painter active in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. He was one of the artists of the Vienna Secession who took inspiration from the pointillist techniques of French Impressionists. He was an early supporter of the Nazis and committed suicide as Soviet forces approached Vienna at the end of World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Moll

Die Römische Ruine in Schönbrunn (The Roman ruin in Schönbrunn)
1891
Oil on canvas
322 x 1242 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

William Trost Richards

(1833 - 1905)
 

 William Trost Richards was an American landscape artist. He was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Trost_Richards

King Arthur's Castle, Tintagel, Cornwall, England
1889
Oil on canvas
45,7 x 76,5 cm
Private collection