Article: Delaroche at the Wallace Collection. (French painter Paul Delaroche, National Gallery, London, England)

Paul Delaroche was a hugely popular painter during his lifetime, but after his death in 1856 his reputation languished. His works were bought by collectors in Britain, Germany, and Russia as well as his native France. One of his patrons, Richard Seymour Conway (1800-1870), fourth marquis of Hertford, acquired ten oil paintings and two watercolors by Delaroche. This group, one of the most extensive outside France, is in the Wallace Collection, which houses Lord Hertford's collections in what was once his London residence. To mark the bicentenary of Delaroche's birth the Wallace Collection will exhibit all its Delaroche paintings as well as a number of prints made after them. ...

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