A possible portrait of Lady Jane is back home at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. Detailed analysis has been carried out on the portrait by English Heritage and this was reported in the press.
The portrait has been in a private collection but was on display as part of the ‘Lost Faces’ exhibition at the Philip Mould Gallery in March 2007, which I was lucky enough to visit. It was shown alongside the Teerlinc miniature as possible portraits of Jane. A detailed analysis was included in the exhibition catalogue, ‘Lost Faces: Identity and Discovery in Tudor Royal Portraiture’ edited by Bendor Grosvenor.
The portrait was also included in Stephan Edward’s analysis of possible portraits of Jane and published in ‘A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England’s Nine Days Queen’ in 2015 and the revised edition published in 2024,‘Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England’s ‘Nine Days Queen.’
English Heritage have published some of the analysis they have carried out on the portrait and their findings can be read at Could this Mysterious Portrait be Lady Jane Grey?
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BBC News – Is this the face of teenage queen Lady Jane Grey?
Artnet – Is This the Only Known Portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the Doomed Teen Royal?
ABC News – Portrait may be the only one of England’s 9-day queen painted during her lifetime
CNN – Is this the only known portrait of England’s doomed ‘Nine Days Queen’?
