1791-1824. French Romantic painter. The Raft
of the Medusa 1819 (Louvre, Paris) was
notorious for exposing a relatively recent
scandal in which shipwrecked sailors had been
cut adrift and left to drown. An avid
horseman himself (he was killed in a riding
accident), he painted The Derby at Epsom 1821
(Louvre, Paris) and pictures of cavalry. He
also painted portraits.