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Hippolyte Delaroche, who was known as Paul Delaroche was born in Paris. His father was considerably wealthy and encouraged and financed the artistic training of his son. Delaroche studied under the painters, Claude Henri Watelet, who was a landscape painter, and Jean Antoine Gros who was primarily a historical painter. Gros greatly influenced his development as a history painter and called Delaroche, the ‘glory of my school.’

Delaroche made his first appearance in the Salon with the painting, ‘Josabeth saving Joas,’ and through exhibiting this painting he was to meet two other painters of the time with whom he was to become great friends, Eugene Delacroix and Theodore Gericault. He was to visit Italy many times where his Father in Law, Horace Vernet was the director of the French Academy. Delaroche produced his history paintings in a combination of romantic and classical styles. He was particularly interested in British history and produced many paintings pertaining to this, such as, ‘The Death of Queen Elizabeth’ in 1828, and ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey.’ This painting now hangs in the National Gallery in London. Lady Jane Grey was one of the most tragic figures of Tudor history and she was executed at a young age to prevent her inheriting the English throne of which she was an heir.

He also produced paintings of Napoleon many times such as, ‘Napoleon at Fontainebleau,’ and’ ‘Napoleon Crossing the Alps,’ which now hangs in the Louvre, and shows Napoleon advancing into Italy with a small army in 1800. He painted other famous French figures such as Joan of Arc in the painting, ‘Joan of Arc in Prison,’ with which he had a great success in the Salon of 1824, and ‘Marie Antoinette Leaving the Convention,’ which shows Marie Antoinette after her sentence had been given. He received many commissions from the French State. He was asked to paint the hemicycle of the lecture theatre in the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He produced a magnificent painting, showing the great artists of the modern ages.

He also was commissioned to take part in a decorative programme for the Louvre, for which he painted the sixteenth century historical subject, ‘The Death of Duranti.’ At the age of thirty five he was the youngest artist of the nineteenth century to be elected to the National Institute of Science and Art.

He was heartbroken by the death of his wife Louise in 1845, to whom he was devoted. However, after her death he was said by some to have produced his greatest works, including a series of elaborate pictures of the Passion.

He was also a teacher and he taught many students who went on to be successful painters of the time such as Charles Landelle, Charles Daubigny, Thomas Couture and Jean Leon Gerome. In 1857, after his death a retrospective took place of his work at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

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