I gave a lecture about the basics of what we do at Gold Light Studios yesterday at Dot Bunn's studio in Doylestown, PA. There was a great crowd and some great questions and dialogue. I'm amazed the more and more that I present this material just how much there is to learn and how much more there is that we can do here.
What fascinates me most when I looked in particular at the lineage of Gold Light to my instructors, back to Jacques Louis David, is how much these guys really worked at it. The effort and love put into their own work and put into carrying on some lineage of excellence and sticking to it.

Jacques Louis David 1748-1825 trained (Picot - Bougereau)
Antoine-Jean Gros (Antoine Jean Gros) (1771-1835) trained
Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) trained (Boulanger- William Ladd Taylor)
Jean-Leon Gerome trained
William Paxton trained
R.H. Ives Gammell trained
Richard Lack trained
Bruno Surdo, Mike Chelich, (Michael John Angel and Fred Berger-not in lineage directly) trained
John Murdoch

Jean-Leon Gerome trained
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) trained Abbot Henderson Thayer
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) trained
Arthur DeCosta trained
Patrick Connors, Vincent Desiderio, Al Gury, Louis Sloan trained
David Rivera

Interesting cousins of note:

Francois Boucher (1703-1770) was distant relative of David and an influence on him

Jacques Louis David 1748-1825 trained
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
John James Audubon (1785-1851)

Jacques Louis David 1748-1825 trained
Francois-Edouard Picot (François-Edouard Picot) 1786- 1868 trained
William Adolphe Bouguereau 1825- 1905, and Jules Bastien- Lepage (1848-1844)

Paul Delaroche trained
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (1824-1888) trained William Metcalf and
William Lad Taylor (1854-1926) great uncle of John Chapman, Doylestown (This is interesting locally to Gold Light because of the historical/ geographical connection. Taylor was a superb draughtsman and illustrator. John Chapman saved his work when it might have been destroyed. I discovered his work through the Chapman Gallery in Doylestown, was deeply impressed, and ultimately made the historical connection my own artistic lineage.