Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey

This exhibition, for the first time in the UK, traces Delaroche?s career and allow this iconic painting to be seen in the context of the works that made his reputation, such as Marie Antoinette before the Tribunal (1851, The Forbes Collection, New York). Together with preparatory and comparative prints and drawings for Lady Jane Grey on loan from collections across Europe, it explores the artist’s notion of theatricality and his ability to capture the psychological moment of greatest intensity that culminated in Lady Jane Grey. The exhibition also demonstrates how French and British artists such as Cibot, (Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London, immediately following her Arrest, 1835, Musée Rolin, Autun) continued to work in a manner directly inspired by Delaroche’s pioneering depiction of subjects from 16th Century history.