Complex sentence: While his history paintings were in a neo-classical academic style following Flaxman and others, his portraits more successfully continued in the general tradition of English 18th-century portraiture and many of his portraits are on display in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Split into simpler sentences: While his history paintings were in a neo-classical academic style following Flaxman and others, his portraits more successfully continued in the general tradition of English 18th-century portraiture. Many of his portraits are on display in the National Portrait Gallery, London.