King Edward VI of England died after a long illness at the age of 15. To the shock of many, the crown passed not to his elder ...

She was famously depicted by Paul Delaroche in his portrait The Execution of Lady Jane Grey as blindfolded and helpless in front of the block. But this work and the few others portraying her ...

thanks to a dramatic reimagining of the scene by French painter Paul Delaroche. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833) at the National Gallery in London appears to have a timeless appeal ...

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, Paul Delaroche, 1833 Paul Delaroche / Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In any case, the portrait stands in contrast to the most famous illustration of the ...

The most famous is probably The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, painted in 1822 by Paul Delaroche. In it, she is helpless and blindfolded in front of the executioner's block. She was seen as a ...

She is perhaps best-known from Paul Delaroche’s painting, “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey,” which hangs in the National Gallery in central London. Jane, who may have been as young as 16 ...

She is perhaps best known from Paul Delaroche’s painting, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, which hangs in the National Gallery in central London. Jane, who may have been as young as 16 ...

Lady Jane was executed on Tower Green at the Tower of London on February 12 1554 at the age of 17. English Heritage Conservator Rachel Turnbull gives this mysterious portrait a final examination ...