Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was a French painter and the leading figure of Neoclassicism. He made his name with The Oath of the Horatii (1784). During the Revolution he was a Jacobin and a member of the National Convention, and painted The Death of Marat (1793). He later became First Painter to Napoleon, for whom he painted The Coronation of Napoleon, among other works. After Napoleon's fall he went into exile in Brussels in 1816, where he died. Gros, Girodet and Ingres were among his pupils.