Eugene Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1798-1863) Delacroix, the greatest French Romantic painter was born on April 26, 1798, at Charenton-Saint Maurice. He was trained in the formal neoclassical style of the French painter Jacques-Louis David, but he was strongly influenced by the more colorful, opulent style of such earlier masters as the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens and the Italian painter ...