Historical painting in the context of Troubador style

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. He is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire".

He was also a teacher with a long list of students, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, and Osman Hamdi Bey, among others.

Henri-Paul Motte (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi pɔl mɔt]; 13 December 1846 – 1 April 1922) was a French painter from Paris who specialised in historical subjects.

A pupil of French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme—whose works likewise included historical paintings as well as Greek mythology and Orientalism—Motte first exhibited his paintings at the Paris Salon of 1874, starting with the Le cheval de Troie (The Trojan horse), which was acquired by the Wadsworth Atheneum in 2011.

Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 is a lost painting by American-born artist Benjamin West, depicting the return of the Loyalists to the British Empire following their expulsion from the victorious United States after the American Revolutionary War. Unlike West's established historical styles, Reception features a highly allegorical composition of European, Black, and Native American refugees being welcomed back into the fold by Britannia, who presides over the British Crown Jewels while flanked by angels and government officials surveying the scene.

The original painting and its date of creation have been lost but is survived by a pair of replicas, one by engraver Henry Moses and one by West himself in the background of a later portrait of John Eardley Wilmot, completed in 1811 and 1812 respectively.

Heinrich Friedrich Füger (8 December 1751 – 5 November 1818) was a German classicist portrait and historical painter.