Matthew C. Potter is Professor in Art and Design History at Northumbria University.

This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century.

1 From the Abstract World of Ideas to the Truest Possible Representation of the Historical Event: An Introduction to Historical Art in the Long Nineteenth Century 2 Painting the 'vie privée of Our Forefathers': The Dutch and Flemish Schools as Models in the Formulation of New Visions of the Past in Early Nineteenth-Century Painting 3 Delécluze's Augustus And Cinna: Painting and Performing Rome at the End of the Napoleonic Empire 4 'The Exact Moment': Representing History in Delaroche's Assassination of the Duc de Guise 5 Spanish Painting: Recreating a Perceived 'Golden Age' 6 To Conjure Up the Spirits of the Past: German Romantic History Painting in America 7 The Relativity of History: The Pre-Raphaelite Rhetoric of Time 8 Beyond the 'Ten Complete Military Victories': Images of Battle in the Late-Qing Period 9 Jan Matejko and Polish Historical Painting 10 Representing the Finnish Past: Heritage and the World of the Ancient Finn 11 'A Lady So Long Deceased': The Death of the Historical Muse in Australian Painting, 1880-1911 12 History as You Go: Mobility, Photography, and the Visibility of the Past in Late Ottoman Print Space