1553 Woman, formerly called Mary Tudor but possibly Jane Grey by
Hans Eworth (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University UK) Art
Historian J, Stephan Edwards assessed this portrait in 2005 and
concluded, "Though often posthumously depicted, painted, and
portrayed, Lady Jane Grey has actually been invisible to a
modern viewing audience through lack of any authentic life
portrait. Unknown Lady by Hans Eworth, however, contains a
number of clues that reasonably suggest identifying the young
woman depicted as Lady Jane Grey. The portrait, when read
through a sixteenth-century lens, appears to be a pre-marital
portrait of a wealthy and noble young woman who dressed
demurely, was pious without being prudish, and whose family may
have borne a name or title beginning with the letter ‘D’. The
young woman’s unusual thinness and other physical features
serve, in the context of Eworthian portraiture, to shorten any
list of potential identities. When examined in the context of
sixteenth-century material culture and identity