History Painters
History painting was the dominant form of academic painting in the various national academies in the 18th century, and for most of the 19th; in France artists such as Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, Jacques-Louis David, Ingres, Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin were among the leading figures. Romantic artists such as Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix, and those from other movements such as the English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood continued to regard history painting as the ideal for their most ambitious works. Others such as Paul Delaroche became specialized painters of historical subjects.
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