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Lady Jane Grey Dudley (1536/7-1554) England’s ‘Nine Days Queen’ of July 1553 |
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This site deals primarily with Lady Jane Grey Dudley, who reigned as uncrowned Queen of England for just nine days in July 1553 before being overthrown by Mary Tudor. Jane Grey was the subject of my doctoral dissertation when I took my Ph.D. in British History in 2007. It is a subject to which I have devoted myself as an independent research historian.
This site also contains a growing amount of material born of my own ‘grey matter’ and relating to other topics, including objects believed by their owners to have once belonged to Jane Grey, one man’s amusing theory that Lady Jane’s execution was staged and that she was secretly pardoned and went on to write the works now attributed to William Shakespeare, my take on what it is to be a historian, my rant on one of my pet peeves (the modern misuse of the word “professional”), my analysis of a set of ancient Latin poems said to have been the orgin of the modern acrostic puzzle, and an article from the period when I lived in San Francisco and was active in the gay community there. As always, thanks for visting and feel free to use the CONTACT form if you have any questions you would like to pose, whether in relation to Lady Jane Grey Dudley or some other topic in history. |
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The Berry-Hill Portrait Is Found! |
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In my book on portraiture of Lady Jane Grey Dudley published in 2015 (see below), I identified a number of portraits said to depict Jane that are today ‘lost’ or of unknown whereabouts. I hoped at the time that by publishing what was known about the ‘lost’ pictures I could enlist the sleuthing assistance of readers of the book to aid in finding one or more of the missing paintings. I am delighted to say that my hopes have been realized!
On Sunday, 14 November 2021, I began receiving a small flood of emails alerting me to a new posting on a blog called Auction Augur. The owner of the blog, Francis Mouton, had spotted a painting listed in the catalogue for an auction to be held on 21 November 2021 in Bedford, New York. Butterscotch Auctioneers and Appraisers offered as Lot 209 what they described as “Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots” by “Anglo-Dutch School” that had come from a “Private Collection, Scarsdale, New York.” The keen-eyed blogger knew that the identifcation was not correct and so offered their summary of the available evidence and scholarship in the blog article. Francis reached the conclusion that the portrait, pictured below in a new photograph from the auction house, “is nearly certain to be one of the Grey sisters.”
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