dealer Neil Wilson, and housed at Castle of Park in Cornhill, Aberdeenshire, was in fact the lost original. Wilson's widow, Becky, was reported to have decided to keep the painting, but allow it to go on display at the British Museum in London when a Delaroche exhibition takes place. Subsequently, the painting was sold via Christie's in July 2019 for £33,750. Gallery Photography Delaroche is often quoted as saying "from today, painting is dead." The observation was probably made in 1839, when Delaroche saw examples of the Daguerreotype, the first successful photographic process. See also Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers, the 1836 Delaroche painting thought lost in the Blitz, rediscovered in 2009. References Sources Bann, Stephen. 1997. Paul Delaroche: History Painted. London: Reaktion Books; Princeton: Princeton University Press. Bann, Stephen. 2006. "Paul Delaroche's Early Work in the Context of English History Painting." Oxford Art Journal, 2006. 341. Bann, Stephen and Linda Whiteley. 2010. Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey. London: National Gallery Company; Distributed by Yale University Press. Carrier, David. Nineteenth-Century French Studies 26, no. 3/4 (1998): 476–78. Chilvers, Ian. "Delaroche, Paul." In the Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Oxford University Press, http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191782763.001.0001/acref-9780191782763-e-687. Deines, Stefan, Stephan Jaeger, and Ansgar Nünning. 2003. Historisierte Subjekte—subjektivierte Historie: zur Verfügbarkeit und Unverfügbarkeit von Geschichte. Berlin: De Gruyter. Duffy, Stephen. "Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey: London." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1286 (2010): 338–39. . Jordan, Marc. "Delaroche, Paul." The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed 17 November 2016, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t118/e711. Tanyol, Derin. (2000) Histoire anecdotique—the people's history? Gras and Delaroche, Word & Image, 16:1, 7–30, DOI: 10.1080/02666286.2000.10434302 Whiteley, Linda. "Delaroche." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed 4 November 2016, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T021935pg2. Wright, Beth S. "The Space of Time: Delaroche's Depiction of Modern Historical Narrative." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 36, no. 1/2 (2007): 72–93. . Chernysheva, Maria. "Paul Delaroche: The Reception of his Work in Russia." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 9, no. 3 (2019): 577–589. External links Delaroche returned after 70 years 1797 births 1856 deaths French romantic painters French Roman Catholics Painters from Paris Academic art Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century painters of historical subjects 19th-century French male artists