Jane Norton Grew

Jane Norton Grew (September 30, 1868 – August 14, 1925), known upon her marriage as Mrs. J. P. Morgan Jr., was an American socialite, art collector, and dilettante horticulturalist. Born in Boston to an affluent family, she married J. P. Morgan Jr., son of American financier J. P. Morgan, in 1890 and became prominent in both London and New York society, playing host to royalty including The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. Grew curated and managed the Morgan library and art collection, and became involved in horticulture on her Long Island estate in Glen Cove.

Early life and family Jane Norton Grew was born in Boston on September 30, 1868. The ceremony took place at Arlington Street Church in Boston. Jane Norton Morgan Nichols (1893–1981), who married George Nichols (1878–1950). Frances Tracy Pennoyer (1897–1989), who married Paul Geddes Pennoyer (1890–1970), a lawyer, in 1917. Henry Sturgis Morgan (1900–1982), a founding partner of Morgan Stanley who married Catherine Lovering Adams (1902–1988), daughter of Charles Francis Adams III, descendants of the 2nd U.S. President, John Adams.

In 1898, the family moved to London, where Grew was presented to Queen Victoria. During their time in the United Kingdom, she sat for the portraitist John Singer Sargent between 1904 and 1905, having a portrait completed in 1906 after sitting for him thirteen times. She wrote in her scrapbook about the experience, saying "[Sargent] thinks it is the best work he has done this year. He arranged a mirror so that I could watch him paint. It was thrilling to see him work." Grew managed and curated the family's collection of books, manuscripts, and works of art.

In 1912, she and her in-laws co-hosted Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn, and Princess Patricia of Connaught and showed them the Morgan library and galleries.

Death Grew died of encephalitis lethargica in 1925. At the time, doctors attributed her encephalitis to having contracted influenza during the 1918 pandemic.