Paul Delaroche was a 19th-century French painter who specialized in and earned his fame in history paintings. Most of his work focused on emotional tales taken from English history. Delaroche ...

Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833). Collection of the National Gallery, London. In 1553, at just 15 years old, Lady Jane Grey was reluctantly thrust onto the English throne ...

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Around 1840, the French realist Paul Delaroche saw a daguerreotype and declared that painting was dead. But new technologies just keep making the world’s oldest medium stronger. The American ...

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Emotion and dramatic coloring are typical of this period. Similarly La Jeune Martyre (The Young Martyr) by Paul Delaroche (1855) presents a peaceful figure; a victim of her surroundings, caught in a ...

Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey is at the National Gallery (020 7747 2885, www.nationalgallery.org.uk) until 23 May. Daily 10am-6pm, Friday until 9pm. Admission £8, concs available.

Paul Delaroche's 1831 depiction of the princes in the Tower, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the early days of Henry VIII’s reign, between about 1513 ...