Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche

Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797, Paris - 4 November 1859, Paris) was a French painter, whose painstakingly realistic historical subjects made him one of the most successful academic artists of mid-19th-century France. Delaroche’s father was an art expert, his uncle was curator of the Cabinet des Estampes, and his brother was the painter Jules-Hippolyte Delaroche. In 1832 he became a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and he was made a member of the institute.