The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche is one of the most famous paintings in London's National Gallery. The painting showing a blindfolded Lady Jane about to be executed in the Tower Of London following her famously short-lived nine day rule is a highlight of the Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey exhibition at the National Gallery. This, the first exhibition of 2010 at the gallery, aims to redress the balance for Delaroche, who once rivalled his contemporaries Ingres and Delacroix but who fell from favour soon after his death. An accompanying exhibition which you can see for free in Room 1 presents, for the very first time, Delaroches recently recovered 'Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers', 1836, which was damaged by shrapnel in the bombing of Bridgewater House in London during the Blitz and is now held in a private collection.
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