The Execution Of Lady Jane Grey.

[sandyRoe]

There's a famous 19th Century painting of the scene.

Who would have commissioned it, and why?

It's hardly something you'd want hanging 

on the sitting room wall.

[DTCwordfan]

Paul Delaroche painted it.

 

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.XaM1oGzQQuYr-s4WnwfXDwHaGL?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain

It's not in a house but the National Gallery. KingCharles probably borrows if from time to time to remind Camilla what could happen if she misbehaves.

[fourteen85]

I saw this in the National on a rare foray to the Capital in the 1970's I was enthralled by it 

[Peter Pedant]

It was originally bought by Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato as part of the Demidov collection. From there it passed in 1870 to Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore after whose death in 1891 it realised £1,575 (lot 78) at his sale at Christie's the next year, less than a quarter of the price of the star of the sale, The Monarch of the Glen (lot 42, £7,245)

good wiki articles - written from a 2020 pt of view - on Delaroche and the picture itself

"Historical" pictures 1833 fell out of favour and this one was stored 'for  many decades' and then re-found and cleaned.

I only knew it as " it wasnt like that" - so the picture clearly has a life and meaning of its own and not anything to do wizz the Lady. Painted in the time of execution of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, deposition of Charles X - so sort of about people in power once, crashing and burning

wiki is good on this

[Peter Pedant]

I remember the 1975 piccy

lots of ra ra ra - look at this ! hadnt realised they had found it, cleaned it, and re-habilitated. 

[Canary42]

It seems it was a French painting about 100 years after the Revolution, so could have been commissioned to celebrate the anniversary.  This is purely speculation on my part.

[Canary42]

Crossed post with PP's informative one.