Eugène Delacroix
(1798 - 1863)

 

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix

Hamlet et Horatio au cimetière (Hamlet and Horatio at the graveyard)
1839
Oil on canvas
82 x 120 cm
Louvre
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059638

James Northcote
(1746 - 1831)

 

James Northcote RA was a British painter. Northcote was born in Plymouth, and was apprenticed to his father, Samuel Northcote, a watchmaker. In his spare time, he drew and painted. In 1769 he left his father's work and set up as a portrait painter. Four years later he went to London and was admitted as a pupil into the studio and house of Sir Joshua Reynolds. At the same time he attended the Royal Academy schools. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Northcote

Master Betty as Hamlet, before a bust of Shakespeare
Between 1804 and 1806
Oil on canvas
55,9 x 40,6 cm
Yale centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:215