Two of his paintings secured support for Greek independence, another had to be hidden from public view because it glorified liberty, and he was a major influence over Impressionism.
orientalism
A figurative painter who specialised in orientalist fantasy and Biblical stories, and was the husband of Henrietta Rae, the pioneering feminist and painter.
Artists started to visit Algeria after the French invaded the country in 1830. Paintings of history, places and some scenes, especially in Constantine.
Views painted of Cairo and other parts of Egypt, including Thomas Seddon, Alberto Pasini, Jean-LĂ©on GĂ©rĂ´me and the Australian Impressionist Arthur Streeton.
A prodigious painter who made his name in 1869. After that he was a sought-after portraitist and a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
One of the most travelled painters in history, here are views of Turkestan, India, western Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Japan.
Applying his soft pastels to vellum, his paintings are hyper-realist in their fine detail. He was also an eccentric, living mostly in Turkish dress, and a renowned painter of portraits.
Born 200 years ago today, he should have been one of the major artists of the 19th century, but died when he had only just turned 37.
A pupil of JAD Ingres when he was only 11 years old, his first work exhibited at the Salon when he was only 16: a precocious and brilliant narrative artist.
Although intricate in their detail, none of these paintings is larger than 90 cm in either dimension – and several are quite painterly in a miniature way.
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