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Jacques Louis David (1748–1825)

• Was a French painter in the Neoclassical style
• David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre.
• Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, the First Consul of France.
• After Napoleon's fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself to Brussels, then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, where he remained until his death
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