Son of the art dealer and collector Grégoire-Hippolyte (d. 1824), <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/paul-hippolyte-delaroche">Paul Delaroche</a> entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1816 and studied under landscape painter <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/louis-etienne-watelet">Louis-Étienne Watelet</a> (1780-1866), himself a student of <a href="https://findartvalue.com/artist/pier