Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley,
England's Nine Days Queen
 
 
 
 
 
     This website was begun late in 2005 in part in an effort to make my published article on a portrait in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK) more widely available. Over the course of the next ten years, I continued conducting extensive research in an attempt to locate a portrait of Jane Grey that was mentioned in the historical record very shortly after her death. As I studied a particular painting, I posted my findings on this site under the “Portraits” heading, with each painting getting its own page. By 2014, the number of paintings studied had reached almost three dozen and the research seemed at an end. That material has now been removed and entirely re-written and published as a book.

     The material that remains accessible here under “Portraits” either has already been published in an academic journal (the Wrest Park Portrait), was not known to me until after publication (the South Carolina Portrait), or will not be included in the book (Other Portraits).

     The material formerly included under “Portraits” can now be found in a book first published in 2015 and newly-revised in 2024, Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England’s Nine Days Queen (Old John Publishing, 2024). That volume examines over two dozen portraits, four of which having never before been published or studied by art historians. A couple of previously ‘lost’ portraits have also been located and studied for the first time by any historian in more than half a century. An appendix re-examines the authenticity of the well-known account of Jane’s ceremonial entry into the Tower of London on 10 July 1553, relied upon by virtually every historian since 1910 for its description of Jane’s physical appearance. A second appendix details my efforts to locate a number of portraits that remain lost.
 
     
     
     
 
 
     
 
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62 additional full-color illustrations!
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