{"id":18817,"date":"2025-03-08T21:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=18817"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:23:50","slug":"possible-portrait-of-jane-back-on-display-at-wrest-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=18817","title":{"rendered":"Possible portrait of Jane back on display at Wrest Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18818\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/75ccdbe0-f9ed-11ef-9e61-71ee71f26eb1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18818\" src=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/75ccdbe0-f9ed-11ef-9e61-71ee71f26eb1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/75ccdbe0-f9ed-11ef-9e61-71ee71f26eb1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/75ccdbe0-f9ed-11ef-9e61-71ee71f26eb1.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center> (c) English Heritage<\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>The portrait has been in a private collection but was on display as part of the &#8216;Lost Faces&#8217; 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, &#8216;Lost Faces: Identity and Discovery in Tudor Royal Portraiture&#8217; edited by Bendor Grosvenor.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait was also included in Stephan Edward&#8217;s analysis of possible portraits of Jane and published in &#8216;A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England\u2019s Nine Days Queen&#8217; in 2015 and the revised edition published in 2024,\u2018Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England\u2019s \u2018Nine Days Queen.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>You can read his opinion about the Wrest Park portrait at <a href=\"https:\/\/somegreymatter.com\/re-visiting-the-wrest-park-portrait-a-rebuttal\/\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"><b>Re-Visiting the Wrest Park Portrait: A Rebuttal<\/b> <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/51ARANTxAiL._SY466_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/51ARANTxAiL._SY466_-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/51ARANTxAiL._SY466_-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/51ARANTxAiL._SY466_.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>English Heritage have published some of the analysis they have carried out on the portrait and their findings can be read at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/about\/search-news\/could-this-mysterious-portrait-be-lady-jane-grey\/\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"><b>Could this Mysterious Portrait be Lady Jane Grey? <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Other news articles<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g08z0wnvxo\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">BBC News &#8211; Is this the face of teenage queen Lady Jane Grey? <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/mar\/07\/sole-portrait-of-england-nine-day-queen-lady-jane-grey-thought-to-have-been-identified-by-researchers\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">The Guardian &#8211; Sole portrait of England\u2019s \u2018nine-day queen\u2019 thought to have been identified by researchers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/is-this-the-only-known-portrait-of-lady-jane-grey-the-doomed-teen-royal-2616092\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">Artnet &#8211; Is This the Only Known Portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the Doomed Teen Royal? <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14468413\/real-face-Lady-Jane-Grey-revealed.html\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">Daily Mail &#8211; The real face of Lady Jane Grey revealed? &#8216;Compelling&#8217; evidence unearthed that portrait defaced by scratches is tragic &#8216;Nine Days Queen&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/portrait-englands-9-day-queen-painted-lifetime-119557955\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">ABC News &#8211; Portrait may be the only one of England&#8217;s 9-day queen painted during her lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/07\/style\/lady-jane-grey-portrait-england-intl-scli-gbr\/index.html\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">CNN &#8211; Is this the only known portrait of England\u2019s doomed \u2018Nine Days Queen\u2019?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=18817\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[307],"tags":[943,70,308,28],"class_list":["post-18817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portraits-2","tag-english-heritage","tag-portrait","tag-stephan-edwards","tag-wrest-park"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18817"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18836,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions\/18836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}