A contemporary and friend of Turner, Etty, Cole, and Allston, his narrative paintings are very different.
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Painting a literary narrative, by Rembrandt, John Martin, and Washington Allston.
Damned by twentieth-century critic Clement Greenberg, his paintings showed classical narratives, with increasing amounts of action.
The artist gives an account of three paintings from her forthcoming book, a highly successful Kickstart project.
He specialised in showing the human impact of war, on the combatants, and civilians.
Was he really one of the most important French painters of the nineteenth century?
The most politically adept artist, David was a leader of the French Revolution, then a friend of Napoleon.
The last of the great classical narrative painters, his huge canvases explored lesser-known tales from Greece, Rome, and Scotland.
Known exclusively for his illustrations, Doré painted many large works in oils. He was a master story-teller in those too.
One of the greatest narrative paintings of all time, and the only well-known work by this promising painter.
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