Jacques-Louis David

She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb , Lady Cork , and painters James Northcote and Sir Joshua Reynolds . In 1802, in London and...

In Paris in 1829 she was sculpted by Jacques-Louis David in profile, for a medal. Eleven years later, at the Anti-Slavery Convention in London, she sat with other delegates to the convention for Benjamin Haydon

To some extent this novel repeats the central situation of Mademoiselle Mori (as well as re-using research that MR had done for Women of the Last Days of Old France), with a young protagonist...

After Ingres came further monographs on French painters: Watteau, 1967 (called by Michael McNaya brilliant coup),Greuze : The Rise and Fall on an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon, 1972 (a revised form of...