The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1847 was an art exhibition held in London. It was the seventy ninth annual Summer Exhibition held by the British Royal Academy of Arts. It took place at the National Ga
The South Sea Bubble by Edward Matthew Ward
The Hero of a Hundred Fights by J.M.W. Turner
The Deer Drive by Edwin Landseer
French Troops Fording the Magra by Clarkson Stanfield
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History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often Greek and Ro
Diana and Actaeon, Titian, 1556–1559, a classic history painting, showing a dramatic moment in a mythological story, with elements of figure painting, landscape painting and still-life.
Judas Returning the Thirty Silver Pieces by Rembrandt, 1629.
Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, 1786, with a scene from ancient history.
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1545. According to André Félibien allegory was the highest form of all history painting.