Who trained Jacques-Louis David as a young artist?

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As a young artist, Jacques-Louis David was placed in the studio of the history painter Joseph-Marie Vien to receive his training.1

Vien was a significant figure who catered to the emerging Greco-Roman taste of the era while still incorporating elements of the light sentiment and eroticism that had been fashionable earlier in the 18th century. Following his time in Vien's studio, David enrolled in the school of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture at the age of 18.1