{"id":9177,"date":"2014-10-06T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2017-03-08T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T08:46:20","slug":"a-look-at-how-the-streatham-portrait-has-been-displayed-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=9177","title":{"rendered":"A look at how the Streatham portrait has been displayed over the years\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6818\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lady-Jayne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6818\" src=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lady-Jayne-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"(c) NPG 6804; Lady Jane Dudley (nee Grey) by Unknown artist\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lady-Jayne-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Lady-Jayne.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) NPG 6804; Lady Jane Dudley (nee Grey) by Unknown artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>The portrait was discovered at a house in Streatham in January 2006. It was announced in the November of that year, that it had been purchased by the National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait was first on display at the Gallery in Room 3 of the Tudor Galleries from spring 2007 to April 2009 and then at the entrance to the \u2018Lady Jane Grey\u2019 display from December 2009 until 15th August 2010. Between March 2013 and May 2014 it was on display at Montacute House in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p>It was back in Room 3 at the National Portrait Gallery as part of \u2018The Real Tudors: Kings &#038; Queens Rediscovered\u2019 exhibition from 12 September 2014 until 1st March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>On March 23rd, the National Portrait Gallery posted a photo of the portrait being reframed as part of Museum Week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Down in the Framing Studio, the team is reframing a portrait of Lady Jane Grey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/secretsMW?src=hash\">#secretsMW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MuseumWeek?src=hash\">#MuseumWeek<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/7ew9VjLesQ\">pic.twitter.com\/7ew9VjLesQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Portrait Gallery (@NPGLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPGLondon\/status\/579973532022640640\">March 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>The portrait returned to Room 2 of Montacute House in the late spring of 2015.<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The painting was the subject of a gallery talk by Justin Nolan on June 12th 2007.<\/p>\n<p>These were the main points from this talk:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018The NPG has been aware of this painting since 1923. It is a \u00be length portrait of a woman wearing high status clothing from the 1550s.<\/p>\n<p>The sitter is someone of importance. Analysis (including \u2018dendrochronology\u2019) has shown that the wood used dates from after 1593. The question is why would someone paint a portrait of a woman after 1593 wearing clothing from forty years before? There must have been something about the sitter to make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>The inscription dates from the same time as the portrait and cross referencing it with the known \u2018Lady Jayne\u2019s\u2019 at the time, shows that it could refer to Jane Grey.<\/p>\n<p>Jane was in the public consciousness in 1602. This is shown by Thomas Dekker\u2019s play, \u2018Sir Thomas Wyatt\u2019. Some of this play survives and in it, Jane and Guildford are portrayed as lovers. So from very early on, the romantic notion of Lady Jane Grey existed.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that this painting belonged in the collection of a gentleman who wanted to promote his enthusiasm for Protestantism and could have been part of a series of paintings of \u2018Protestant Worthies.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This was probably not intended to be an accurate portrait of Jane but was using her as a badge of the Elizabethan Protestant Order.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t anything in this portrait that supports an accurate representation, however, the question remains, why else produce this painting\u2019 (Justin Nolan, NPG)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>The painting was displayed between 2007 and 2009 as:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Memorial Portrait of Lady Jane Grey (Lady Jayne)<br \/>\nUnknown<br \/>\n16th century\u2019 (NPG)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>The postcard on sale at the time had the following information:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Lady Jane Dudley (nee Grey) 1537-54<br \/>\nAfter a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger.\u2019 (NPG)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>It was displayed between December 2009 and August 2010 as:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Unknown, 1590s<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This panel is one of the earliest surviving portraits of England\u2019s shortest reigning monarch Lady Jane Grey. It was not painted from life or indeed made during her lifetime. It is a commemorative portrait made at least 40 years after her death.\u2019 (NPG)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>It was displayed between March 2013 and May 2014 as:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9180\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20130807_131647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9180\" src=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20130807_131647-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Room 2 - The Court of Henry VIII, Montacute House\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20130807_131647-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20130807_131647-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Room 2 &#8211; The Court of Henry VIII, Montacute House<\/p><\/div>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Lady Jane Grey<br \/>\nBy an unknown artist<br \/>\nOil on oak panel 1590s\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is one of the earliest surviving portraits of England\u2019s shortest-reigning monarch, Lady Jane Grey, despite being made some 40 years after her death. The sixteen-year-old Jane Dudley (n\u00e9e Grey) was nominated by her cousin, Edward VI, to succeed him and at his death was uncrowned Queen of England for nine days before being deposed and executed by Mary I.<\/p>\n<p>A commemorative portrait, this panel may have formed part of a set of Protestant martyrs. Scratched lines across the eyes and mouth suggest that the painting may have been subjected to an iconoclastic attack at some point in its history.\u2019 (Montacute House)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>At \u2018The Real Tudors: Kings &#038; Queens Rediscovered\u2019 exhibition from 12 September 2014 to 1st March 2015 it was displayed as:<\/p>\n<p><BR><br \/>\n<i>\u2018Lady Jane Grey<br \/>\nBy an unknown artist<br \/>\nOil on panel, late sixteenth century\u2019 (NPG)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lady Jane Grey was named as heir to the throne by her cousin Edward VI: however, she was imprisoned after only nine days\u2019 rule when Mary successfully asserted her right to the crown. Highly educated and devoutly Protestant, it was only during Elizabeth\u2019s reign that she became more widely known. This fuelled an interest in her portraiture and portraits such as this example were created to mark her place for an Elizabethan audience. However, no lifetime portraits of Jane appear to survive and it is possible that none were ever painted. By 1620, one image had gained credence as a lifetime portrait and was used as the basis for an engraving. However, the sitter in this image wears a jewel that is very similar to one that belonged to Katherine Parr, and may be Henry VIII\u2019s sixth queen.\u2019 (NPG)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In the catalogue to accompany the exhibition, it is stated that:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Even during the uncertain time between Edward\u2019s death and Mary\u2019s accession, Jane made little mark on contemporary commentators, and given the short period of her reign it is not likely that a portrait was ever produced.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Numerous portraits have been identified as Jane, but no certain image during her lifetime appears to have survived, if one ever existed. One portrait thought to depict Jane was painted in the Elizabethan period and was probably produced in response to her growing reputation as a Protestant martyr. In this three-quarter-length image, she stands holding a book, wearing a costly, if simply painted, gown of red velvet and cloth-of-gold and silver. Tree-ring dating suggests that the portrait was painted in the 1590s, and thus it may derive from an earlier likeness, or could even have been adapted from a portrait of another sitter. Whatever the case, it is clear that the portrait served as a likeness of Jane for its Elizabethan audience. The fragmentary inscription, which identifies the sitter as \u2018Lady Jayne\u2019, suggests that it may have formed part of a set of portraits, and the scratched lines across the eyes and mouth may be result of a deliberate attack at some point in history.\u2019 (1)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>In May 2014, Dr Stephan Edwards published his latest findings on the portrait, at his website, Some Grey Matter. He wrote:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018On the whole, it seems entirely likely that the Streatham Portrait was based upon some earlier reference image that depicted Katherine Parr but, like the Norris Portrait, was adapted to \u201cbecome\u201d Jane Grey in the absence of an accessible authentic portrait of Jane.\u2019 (2)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the portrait was included in his book \u2018A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England\u2019s \u2018Nine Days Queen.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>It was displayed from late spring 2015 in Room 2 at Montacute House as:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;Lady Jane Grey 1537 &#8211; 1554<br \/>\nOil on oak panel,<br \/>\nc.1590 &#8211; 1600&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Purchased with help from the proceeds of the 150th anniversary gala.&#8217; (Montacute House)<\/I><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><u>Sources<\/u><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p>1.Bolland, C. and Cooper, T. (2014) The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered, National Portrait Gallery Publications, p.99<\/p>\n<p>2.Edwards,S. <a href=http:\/\/www.somegreymatter.com\/streathamportrait.htm>Some Grey Matter \u2013 The Streatham Portrait<\/a> Date accessed: 5 October 2014<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The portrait was discovered at a house in Streatham in January 2006. It was announced in the November of that year, that it had been purchased by the National Portrait Gallery. 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