The German-Bohemian painter, Anton Raphael Mengs, is acclaimed as the most important painter in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.
A child prodigy in his day, Mengs was born in Aussig, Bohemia, on March 22, 1728.
Religiously following the technicalities of antiquity to conserve the classical tradition of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin, the French Neoclassical painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, was acclaimed as the icon of cultural conservatism in 19th-century France.
Best-known for his society portraits and female nudes, Ingres was born on August 29, 1780, Montauban, France.