Jacques-Louis David

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...

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

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...