Lady Jane Grey ('The execution of Lady Jane Grey')

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Lady Jane Grey ('The execution of Lady Jane Grey')

by Green, after Paul Delaroche
engraving, published 1849 (1833)
4 1/4 in. x 5 in. (109 mm x 128 mm) paper size
Given by Marion Harry Spielmann, 1893
Reference Collection
NPG D36334

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  • Paul Delaroche (1797-1856). Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
  • Green (active after 1833), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

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The combination of historical detail, startling realism and a carefully pitched sentimentality made Paul Delaroche's painting the sensation of the Paris Salon of 1834. The Art Journal text that accompanying this engraving commended the scene thus: 'no gaping spectators are introduced to disturb the solemnity of the awful scene wherein all present appear individually and collectively concerned - the victim, her attendants, the minister of consolation, and the executioner'.

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Current affairs

Benjamin Disraeli becomes Conservative leader in the House of Commons.
Bedford College for Women is founded, following on from the foundation of Queen's College for Women the previous year.
Henry Mayhew, the social researcher and reform advocate, begins publishing his extensive statistical survey into the living conditions of urban communities, London Labour and the London Poor in the Morning Chronicle.

Art and science

With the death of his father Johann Strauss the Elder, Johann Baptist Strauss, the Austrian violinist and composer combines his and his father's orchestra, becoming known as 'the Waltz King'. His famous waltzes include The Blue Danube (1867). Dante Gabriel Rossetti paints his sister, the poet Christina, in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin.

International

Rome is briefly proclaimed a republic after the papal states are overthrown by Italian republicans. Napoleon's dependency on French Catholics leads him however to help restore papal authority. The restoration of Austrian military rule in Italy further darkens hopes of a self-ruling Italian nationhood.
Communist riots are suppressed in Paris.

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