Recently, I stumbled upon the French artist Horace Vernet ... Once, Emperor Louis Napoleon requested that Vernet remove a certain general from a painting, to which Vernet replied, "I am a painter ...

Horace assisted his father on the latter’s battle paintings before making his Salon debut in 1812 with a military painting of his own, commissioned by King Jerome of Westphalia, the brother of ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

"Battle of Mont Saint-Jean or the Battle of Waterloo" by Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758 - 1836) and Jacques François Swebach (1769-1823) JoJan/Wikimedia Commons On the night before Napoleon ...

Steve Bannon, the chief strategist to President Donald Trump, had a painting of himself as Napoleon hanging in his office. The company Nobilified has sold such paintings to celebrities.