Art of the Revolution: Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of...

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Art of the Revolution: Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii

The Death of Marat (also by David)

Social criticism: Francisco Goya: The Third of May

Casper David Friedrich, Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon

In this work, the artist depicts a couple gazing longingly at nature, in "Old German" clothes, "scarcely different in tone or modelling from the deep dramas of nature around them"

Casper David Friedrich, The Abbey in the Oakwood

This painting has been described as like "a scene from a horror movie, it [forebears] all the Gothic clichés of the late 18th and early 19th centuries"

Casper David Friedrich, The Sea of Ice

Romantic landscape JMW Turner: Steamboat in a Snowstorm

JMW Turner: Approach to Venice

Romanticism’s focus on the ordinary: John Constable

Pre-Raphaelites: John Everett Millais

The Fireman - Millais

French realism: Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners

Toilette - Mary Cassatt

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