Lady Jane Grey

1 portrait of Lady Jane Grey

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Lady Jane Grey

by Charles Picart, printed by Lahee & Co, published for Thomas Frognall Dibdin, after Lucas de Heere
stipple engraving, published April 1817
9 5/8 in. x 5 7/8 in. (245 mm x 148 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1957
Reference Collection
NPG D36347

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  • Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), Bibliographer. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
  • Lucas de Heere (1534-1584), Painter and poet. Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
  • Lahee & Co (active 1810-1852), Printers. Artist or producer associated with 17 portraits.
  • Charles Picart (circa 1780-circa 1837), Engraver, draughtsman and painter. Artist or producer associated with 119 portraits.

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This engraving represents a transition between portraits purporting to be authentic representation of Lady Jane Grey and narrative pictures that re-enact scenes from her life in a consciously fictional manner. As with attributions to Holbein, the association of the Dutch painter and poet Lucas de Here with this picture is optimistic. The original painting is described in an 1851 catalogue of the pictures at Althorp House as showing Lady Jane 'sitting at her study at her father's mansion near Leicester. Out of the windows are seen the remarkable spires of that town.'

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  • NPG D24995: Called Lady Jane Grey (based on same portrait)
  • NPG D36346: Called Lady Jane Grey (based on same portrait)

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Current affairs

Princess Charlotte, only daughter of George, Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, dies in childbirth, prompting widespread mourning.
Seditious Meetings Bill drives democratic societies underground.
Rising depression and discontent; Prince Regent's coach attacked at state opening of Parliament.

Art and science

John Keats begins to write his epic poem Endymion on the Isle of Wight; a rite of passage as a professional poet after deserting his medical career.
John Constable exhibits Flatford Mill, one of his most famous naturalistic landscape paintings, at the Royal Academy
John Rennie's new Waterloo Bridge opens.

International

Journalist William Cobbett flees to America fearing prosecution. Already imprisoned for two years for seditious libel he grew more vehemently pro-reform on his release and reduced the price of his weekly periodical the Political Register to expand its circulation and influence to all classes.
James Monroe is elected President of the United States.

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J. Stephan Edwards

04 June 2016, 01:23

The original is a mis-labeled portrait of Mary Magdalene in a sixteenth century setting by The Master of the Female Half Lengths. See: A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England's Nine Days Queen (2015), a copy of which is available in the Heinz Library.