Nature art prints.
Nature art divides into four old traditions: botanical and still life, birds and animals, gardens, land and water. Each has its own shops. This page maps them, and says so where we appear.
| Subject | Look for | Where | In the collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botanical and still life | Painted bouquets, or illustration plates on white | Curated galleries, print publishers, antique dealers for plates | Flowers & still life |
| Birds and animals | Painters who worked from the field; antiquarian plates from dealers | Wildlife galleries, plate dealers, this shop | Birds & animals |
| Gardens | Courtyards, greenhouses, the painter's own beds | Curated galleries, this shop | Gardens |
| Land and water | Coast, mountain, river, moonlight; panoramic sizes | Everywhere; check the paper | Land & water |
Botanical and still life
Dutch bouquets to the plates of the great botanical illustrators. Antique dealers sell original plates and pages; the open marketplaces carry endless modern takes of mixed origin. Eight shops compared: Botanical art prints.
Birds and animals
Wildlife painting had a golden age: Liljefors in Sweden, Thorburn in Scotland, the Japanese woodblock masters setting birds on branches. Audubon’s plates are the American classic, on dealers’ walls. Seven shops compared: Bird and wildlife art prints.
Gardens, land and water
Garden painting is the domestic end: courtyards, greenhouses, the painters’ own back beds. Landscape and marine painting the wild end: swans in the reeds, horses cooling in a river, moonlight on open water. Panoramas want a long wall; which size for which wall.
New or vintage
New prints: the marketplaces in the main guide all carry nature work, with the sifting that entails. Here every work is nature painting already chosen, printed on one archival paper, from $49.
Vintage and antique: Etsy’s vintage listings and curated sites like Chairish carry original old prints and plates. Ask about foxing, trimming and whether the frame is original.
Originals
Original nature paintings sell at every price, the open marketplaces at the wide end and the curated galleries at gallery prices. Ours are one of one, shipped tracked by the painter with shipping included, on the Originals page.
On AI
Etsy and Fine Art America allow AI-generated work under their rules; Artfinder bans it; here nothing is generated and nothing AI-assisted is accepted. Check any shop yourself: How to spot AI art.