Meanings of historical painting in English

He returned to Edinburgh, and devoted himself to historical painting.

It was, for a wonder, precisely like an historical painting.

The principal realistic painters in genre and historical painting are Fedotov, Makovski, Perov, Polenor, Vereschagin, etc.

The whole description of the interview with the King is a good specimen of familiar historical painting.

Vertue thinks that Sir James was indebted to Laguerre for his knowledge of historical painting on ceilings, etc.

He then plunged into the competition for a prize and medal offered by the Royal Academy for the best historical painting.

King Philip, pondering over complicated political combinations, would be a fascinating historical painting, but no likeness....

He still cultivated the art of historical painting, and was still as anxious as any contemporary of Frith to tell a story.

Sir Joshua Reynolds says that the curtains and hangings in an historical painting ought to be, not velvet or cotton, but merely drapery.

In the year 1846 there still remained one panel in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington to be filled by an historical painting.

In his opinion, the historical poem, the historical novel, the historical painting, are all, according to their kind, abominably false as branches of art.

A beautiful work, and one evidently inspired by the sound of battle, is the noble historical painting entitled "On Picket," by Mr. C.A.

But the historical paintings again held her spellbound.

His noble historical paintings are the most precious relics of that heroic age which the nation possesses.

At other times she would visit the churches, as she was particularly fond of seeing historical paintings.

His memory is like one of those historical paintings, where Virgil and Dante sit side by side conversing.