Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

30 August 1748

Born on the same birth day (30 August): Alexander H. Rice • Ben Jones (American actor and politician) • Holly Weston • Peter of Castile • Ravi Shankar Prasad • Robert Crumb • Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796) • Shirley Booth • Sinead Kerr • Wojciech Fibak

Born in the same month (August 1748): Bernhard Schott • Jean-Étienne Despréaux • Joseph Schuster (composer)