The portrait. A single person immortalized forever on canvas. At first glance, you only see the subject. With a more analytical eye, though, you not only see the image but you begin to hear the voice of the painter and of his time. This is what I hope to do, to feel and understand the mind of the painter Ingres when he painted Louis-Francois Bertin and Reynolds when he painted General John Burgoyne. In the portrait of Bertin, Ingres has captured on canvas a man who has never been pampered in his life. You feel by looking at him that...
freedom or repression and the other fighting for personal freedom and repression of the less fortunate.

Both of these paintings show a separate part of history. General Burgoyne was a man that lived during the mid 1700's, when there was much upheaval due to new ideas such as physics and enlightenment. Bertin, on the other had, lived in the late 1700' and early to mid 1800's, a time when economy and the industrial revolution made warriors out of regular men just to survive everyday life. They are two different people with two different ideas being portrayed in their masterpieces.