Lady Jane Grey

19 December 2009 - 11 July 2010

Room 16

Free

Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey), by Magdalena van de Passe, by Willem van de Passe, published by Frans van den Wyngaerde (Wijngaerde), after Hans Holbein the Younger, after 1620 - NPG D21393 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)
by Magdalena van de Passe, by Willem van de Passe, published by Frans van den Wyngaerde (Wijngaerde), after Hans Holbein the Younger
after 1620
NPG D21393

Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) is remembered as the tragic Tudor queen who reigned for just nine days. Although there are no certain lifetime portraits of her, this display will explore how artists constructed an idealised image of Lady Jane as a Protestant heroine and martyr. The prints chart her growing popularity, via the influential engraving in Henry Holland’s Heroologia (1620) to the sentimentalised history paintings of the nineteenth-century.