Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was a French🎨 Neoclassicist painter. Although he thought of himself as a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was his portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.
A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix🎨.
His exemplars, as he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael🎨 set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator".