| | [[Image:JLDavid.jpg|right|thumb|Self portrait, 1794.]] | | [[Image:JLDavid.jpg|right|thumb|Self portrait, 1794.]] |
| − | '''Jacques-Louis David''' ([[Paris]] 1748 - [[Brussels]] 1825), French painter. He was one of the most prominent painters of the [[Neoclassical|Neo-Classical]] movement. The earliest Neoclassical painters were [[Joseph Marie Vien]], Anton Raphael Mengs, Pompeo Batoni, Angelica Kauffmann, and Gavin Hamilton, David's contemporaries included Jean-Germain Drouais. | + | '''Jacques-Louis David''' ([[Paris]] 1748 - [[Brussels]] 1825), French painter. He was one of the most prominent painters and the leader in France of the [[Neoclassical|Neo-Classical]] movement. The earliest Neoclassical painters were [[Joseph Marie Vien]], Anton Raphael Mengs, Pompeo Batoni, Angelica Kauffmann, and Gavin Hamilton, David's contemporaries included Jean-Germain Drouais. |