Stunning Free Wall Art for Book Lovers

Art is not a luxury; it is food for the soul so why are those walls empty? You do not need to spend a lot to nourish yourself with art, either. If you are a book lover, you have come to the right place for here you will find troves of bookish art. In this article, let’s get you started with wall art, available freely in the public domain.

Some of the most beautiful and certainly my favorite paintings in history are those of people reading in sunlit rooms and scholars in their libraries surrounded by books. Below you will find many such paintings, my curated collection of book lover art for you to peruse.

If you fall in love with any of them, feel free to download these images to your devices. Which you can then get printed and framed at home, online or your local print shops. These can really liven up your reading nooks and personal libraries or studies! Not to mention your moods!

Shop Polished Ready to Hang Prints

If you are looking to get it printed online and would like most of the work done for you, other than adding to the cart and checking out, you can find prints of these paintings on my Zazzle shop.

With this option you get a professionally printed, gallery quality reproduction that’s difficult to achieve at home. It’s printed on high-quality poster paper or for an even more gorgeous print, select the “Art Print” option!!

You also get a variety of size options, plus optional framing and matting, making it easy to create a polished, ready-to-hang piece without extra effort. There’s no need to source specialty paper, adjust colour settings, or risk wasted ink and uneven prints. Buying from my Zazzle shop means with a few clicks your art print will be on its way to you!!

Let’s dive in!

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Book Lover Art Prints from Vintage Paintings

Girl Reading a Letter by Johannes Vermeer (1659)

Original from Wikimedia Commons. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1770)

Original public domain image from Wikimedia Commons

The Bookworm by Carl Spitzweg (1850)

Mother and Child by Gustave Leonard de Jonghe (1861)

Original public domain image from The Clark Art Museum

Amsterdam Orphan Girl by Nicolaas van der Waay (1890 – 1910)

Original public domain image from The Rijksmuseum

Claude Monet by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1872)

Original from the National Gallery of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Josephine and Mercie by Edmund Tarbell (1908)

Original public domain image from National Gallery of Art
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