Paul Delaroche

academic-art

Delaroche Paintings 1797 - 1856 Painter,Sculptor,France,Academic Classicism

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1834

Oil on canvas

National Gallery, London

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OIL PAINTING: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1834
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Delaroche depicts the last moments on 12 February 1554 in the life of the seventeen-year old Jane Grey, a great granddaughter of Henry VII who was proclaimed Queen of England upon the death of young King Edward VI, a Protestant like herself. She reigned for nine days in 1553, but, through the machinations of the partisans of Henry VIII's Catholic daughter, Mary Tudor, she was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death in the Tower of London.popular melodrama and tableau vivant.