Despite aspirations to become a history painter, he was never received as such by the Académie.

He also studied fine art and worked as a natural history painter.

Born in 1954, he has justly been called a history painter of the present.

Most of his contacts within the French artistic community in that city were history painters.

The son of a carpenter, he was active primarily as a history painter, although at least one portrait by him is known.

Although he started as a history painter, Mount moved to depicting scenes from everyday life.

And there he became the history painter he wanted to be, on his own terms.

The title included the one of royal court and history painter.

James Tissot was known to be a religious history painter.

He is often described as the first Russian history painter.