Elizabeth "Jane" Shore was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England. She became the best known to history through being later accused of conspiracy by the future King Richard III, and compelled to do public penance. She was also a sometime mistress of other noblemen, including Edward's stepson, Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings but ended her life in bourgeois respectability.
Portrait of a woman called Jane Shore, wearing a red silk non-boned bodice and a pearl hennin. 1590s details may have been added later to an existing portrait or incorporated into copy created in the 1590s, in the manner of as seen in certain portraits of Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour. Inscribed: BAKERS WİFE AND MİSTRİS TO A KİNG. The portrait bears a remarkable resemblance to the one undisputed likeness of Jane Shore that exists, that of her parents’ memorial brass in Hinxworth, Hertfordshire.
The Penance of Jane Shore by William Blake, c. 1780
The Shaming of Jane Shore by Stephen Reid (1873–1948)
Portrait type called Jane Shore, based on an earlier portrait of Lady Jane Grey
Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487.
Posthumous portrait, c. 1540
Drawing of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, the father of Edward IV and Richard III, c. 1445
Towton Cross, commemorating Edward's victory at the Battle of Towton
Rose Noble coin of Edward IV, minted in 1464
