Theodore Gericault — French Artist born on September 26, 1791, died on January 26, 1824

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was an influential French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement... (wikipedia)

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?