London – A painting that has come to public exhibition on Friday could be the only portrait of the shortest queen in England, Lady Jane Gray, painted during her life, according to the English Heritage conservation group.
He said that there is “convincing” evidence that suggests that the portrait, on the loan of a private collection, shows Jane, who was not more than 17 years old when he became queen for only nine days in the summer of 1553.
One of the most tragic real figures in England, was executed in the Tower of London in 1554. Jane was a Protestant devotee at a time of religious agitation, the last innocent victim of the arbitration of the Tudor Court in the subsequent chaotic of the Queen of Enrique VIII.
Perhaps it is better known for Paul Delaraoche’s painting, “the execution of Lady Jane Gray”, which hangs in the National Gallery in downtown London. Jane, who could have been as young as 16, is shown with bandaged eyes like a executioner with an ax waits to decapitate her.
But that painting, like the few others that they intend to show Jane, all date from after his death.
Now, the English heritage says that a work of the era of Tudor could be a “live” painting by Jane. The portrait, along with six others, will hang on Wrest Park, a farm in western London administered by the English inheritance, and which, by the way, is the location of many scenes of the Netflix scriptally drama “Bridgerton”.
The beneficial organization worked with the Art Institute of Courtauld and the scientist Ian Tyers, who specializes in dendrocronology, or the quotes of the trees. He said there is enough evidence to ask the question: “Could this mysterious portrait be Lady Jane Gray?”
Among the evidence presented, the English heritage said that the trees dots to the wood panel were built between 1539 and around 1571: it is believed that Jane was born in 1536 or 1537 and was executed in early 1554. He also said that the back of the panel shows a loading mark or a merchant, identical to one used in a real delay of King Edward VI, in a turn of the end of the end of the end of the end. A turn of the Uult, in a turn of the load, in its end. The cousin once eliminated as his successor.
He also pointed out a “surprising change” in the eyes of the nanny to the left instead of the right and that at some point, the eyes, mouth and ears deliberately scratched. In addition, he said that the babysitter probably carried a more elaborate costume.
Rachel Turnbull, conservative of Senior Collections of English Heritage, said that the evidence points to the possibility that “we are looking at the shadows of a real portrait once again of Lady Jane Gray, mitigated in Protestant martyrdom and Protestant after her death.”
Jane was brilliant, according to the reports, spoke several languages and a big fan of Plato. But it was his commitment to Protestantism that interested Edward VI.
Edward VI, the only surviving son of Enrique VIII, was the first monarch who raised a Protestant after his father separated from Rome to divorce his first wife Catherine in Aragon. His mother was Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour, whom Lady Jane bears the name.
When he was informed in 1553 that he was a terminal ill, the 15 -year -old Edward wanted to avoid his older sisters Mary and Elizabeth, and appointed Lady Jane his heiress to prevent the kingdom from returning to Catholicism.
On July 10, Jane became Queen, but was deposed nine days after her support melted following a lifting of Mary’s supporters. Subsequently, Jane was convicted of betrayal and sentenced to death.
