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): Andrew Onderdonk • Andy Roddick • Diran Adebayo • Don Getty • Evelyn De Morgan • Frederique van der Wal • Gulstan Ropert • Jun Matsumoto • Maurice Hilleman • Michael Gladis • Mike Koplove • Muriel Gray • Paulo Sousa • Ra Luhse • Raymond Massey • Roger Bushell • Ronald Huth • Vladimir Malakhov (ice hockey)

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