Keywords: Jane Grey engraving van der Passe with caption.gif en Engraving of a lady called Lady Jane Grey 1537 1554 by Willem van de Passe and Magdalena van de Passe c 1620 after an earlier painting The identity of the sitter in the NPG portrait was later challenged however resulting in a consequent questioning of the identity of the lady in the van de Passe engraving Susan James determined in 1996 that the lady in the painting is almost certainly Katherine Parr last wife of Henry VIII She did so by correlating the seemingly unique coronet-shaped brooch with an almost identical item described in an inventory of royal jewels from about 1550 If James is correct and the brooch design is indeed as unusual as she suggests the sitter in the van de Passe engraving is most likely Catherine Parr James further argued that the brooch is 'most unlikely to have passed through the hands of Jane Grey ™ thereby explicitly eliminating Jane as the sitter In addition to the inventory of 1550 James cites a second inventory of royal jewels dated 1587 that lists a brooch ˜with a Crown garnished with xv small diamonds and in the midst of the brooch is a ruby with two diamonds and one Emerald and the three pearls pendant' The records of the royal wardrobe for the later reign of James I indicate that the brooch was subsequently broken up and the gold melted down in 1609 From the various inventories spanning almost sixty years James concludes that the brooch is unlikely ever to have been out of the possession of the immediate royal family http //www google de/imgres imgurl http //www ladyjanegrey org/nine_days/gifs/offer_of_crown jpg imgrefurl http //www ladyjanegrey org/nine_days/index html usg __AwK69KgJeqf4S514awr26hvrbz0 h 300 w 400 sz 50 hl de start 60 zoom 1 um 1 itbs 1 tbnid 2_HbpT0_mOikgM tbnh 93 tbnw 124 prev /images 3Fq 3Dlady 2Bjane 2Bgrey 26start 3D54 26um 3D1 26hl 3Dde 26sa 3DN 26ndsp 3D18 26tbs 3Disch 1 ei TZxqTZbkA8mAswb3ipHjDA website on Jane Grey via Google http //www npg org uk/collections/search/portrait php search ss firstRun true sText lady+jane+grey LinkID mp01373 page 1 rNo 8 role sit National Portrait Gallery Creator Willem van de Passe and Creator Magdalena van de Passe ca 1620 PD-old-100 Lady Jane Grey Heroologia Anglica |