His final and unusual paintings, of Ovid in exile in Scythia, his last shipwreck, the Education of Achilles, and Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains.
Romanticism
Through misunderstandings, 18 months of illness, and with the help of two assistants, he painted the last major works of his career.
A fun scene from Orlando Furioso, Ophelia’s death, two scenes from Jerusalem Delivered, one of the earliest works painted from a photo, and small boats in rough seas.
Two years break from painting ceilings, in which he painted five floral works, several landscapes, and went skying.
Five of the narrative 22 paintings he made for the ceiling of the library in the Palais Bourbon.
A landscape, Roman history, Orientalism, a scene from Scott’s Ivanhoe, a crucifixion, and more scenes from Byron.
Hamlet, including the first visualisation of Ophelia’s death; Christopher Columbus, Medea about to kill her sons, and shipwreck survivors in a small boat.
As he continued to paint history and other narrative works, and turn his watercolours from North Africa into finished oil paintings, he started decorative painting for the State.
A history painting of a battle in 1477 was criticised. Then he was taken as artist to a diplomatic mission to Morocco, and turned Orientalist.
For his third Salon in 1827, he submitted one huge work developed from Lord Byron’s account of the death of Sardanapalus.
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