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 ...

With battle relics, love letters and one very famous bicorne hat, Pierre-Jean Chalençon's one-of-a-kind trove of Napoleonic artifacts hits the block on June 25.

Upon seeing a daguerreotype for the first time around 1840, the French painter Paul Delaroche, whose own students would soon defect to photography, was said to have cried out, “From today ...