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The Young Martyr by Paul Delaroche

Tracy Jones runs the Arts PR company Brera and is head of press, PR and public affairs at the National Gallery

‘I grew up fascinated by Millais’s , which was reproduced in my , so I think it was the similarities thatfeatured in the National Gallery’s 2010 Delaroche exhibition, I couldn’t resist visiting her most days and trying to puzzle out her story. I still don’t think I know the answers and that’s why I will always love looking at her’

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