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Paul Delaroche
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche was a French painter known for his depiction of scenes from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while the detail of his work along with the deglorified portrayal of historic figures follow the trends of Academicism and Neoclassicism. Delaroche aimed to depict his subjects and history with pragmatic realism. He…
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culture · French painter (1797–1856) · painter · photographer · illustrator · sculptor · draftsperson · also Paul Delaroche, Hippolyte Paul Delaroche, Hippolyte Delaroche, Paul Hippolyte Delaroche, Paul de Laroche, Delaroche
Born 17 July 1797 · Died 4 November 1856 · Q322582
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1989· 1 entry
By the late art collector and dealer Neil Wilson, and housed at Castle of Park in Cornhill, Aberdeenshire, was in fact the lost original
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1856· 3 entries
Died 1856-11-04.
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And restoration was taken over by Tony Robert-Fleury, a student of Delaroche
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Was painting a series of four scenes from the Life of the Virgin
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1855· 1 entry
The work was severely damage by fire and Delaroche spent the last year of his life restoring his work
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1845· 1 entry
Was elected into the National Academy of Design, New York, as an Honorary Academician
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1841· 1 entry
But it was considerably damaged by a fire in 1855
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1839· 1 entry
When Delaroche saw examples of the Daguerreotype, the first successful photographic process
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1838· 1 entry
And 1843, when his father-in-law, Horace Vernet, was director of the French Academy in Rome
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1837· 1 entry
Delaroche received the commission for the great picture that came to be known as the Hémicycle, a Raphaelesque tableau influenced by The School of Athens
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1835· 1 entry
In which year he also exhibited Head of an Angel, which was based on a study of her
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1834· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1834).
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1828· 1 entry
Exhibited the first of his English history paintings, Death of Queen Elizabeth
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1797· 1 entry
Born 1797-07-17.
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