‘Lady Jayne’ back on display

The ‘Lady Jayne’ portrait discovered in a house in Streatham in January 2006 is currently on display at Montacute House in Somerset.

Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey) (c) National Portrait Gallery

Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)
(c) National Portrait Gallery

Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, it was on display in Room 3 of the Tudor Galleries between spring 2007 and April 2009 and at the entrance to the ‘Lady Jane Grey’ display at the National Portrait Gallery from December 2009 until 15th August 2010.

This is the second supposed portrait of Lady Jane to be on show at Montacute. ‘Unknown woman, formerly known as Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)’ was on display as part of the ‘On the Nature of Women: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits of Women 1535-1620′ between April and October 2008 and March and November 2009.

Montacute House

National Portrait Gallery – Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)

National Portrait Gallery – Unknown woman, formerly known as Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)

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