1.   Although he aspired to success as a history painter, he was obliged to seek his livelihood through painting portraits.

2.   And there he became the history painter he wanted to be, on his own terms.

3.   As a young man, Mount aspired to being a history painter, at the time regarded as the noblest calling in the plastic arts.

4.   Both proved less than spectacularly successful as history painters.

5.   But like other academics he wanted to be remembered above all as a history painter, not a portraitist.

6.   I have often thought of myself as a history painter, and I think Nancy looks at things in a similar way.

7.   He regarded himself as a history painter and here he was making drawings of the enemy.