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A prisoner’s perspective Jacques-Louis David’s entire raison d’être was to be not just France’s pre-eminent figure painter but above all its history painter. “To be a real artist”, he believed, meant he had “to proceed like the Ancients”, and it was the example of the classical past – in both form and morality – that was his purpose. And he succeeded, becoming the greatest of all neoclassical artists and a teacher of huge influence, so that towards the end of his life he could write without exaggeration that, “I painted pictures that the whole of Europe came to study.” ....