Art catalogue for the Stair Sainty Gallery in London – specialists in 16th – early 20th century european paintings – to be showcased at TEFAF 2020 in Maastricht. The catalogue features work by François Gérard, who may be considered the leading portraitist of the Napoleonic and Restoration periods, but his easy success in this field ultimately inhibited his ambition to rival Jacques-Louis David as a painter of great historical subjects.