Tuesday 6 December 2011

New Jane Austen portrait

This rather murky portrait has recently been confirmed by the experts as probably genuine -- as a likeness of Jane Austen.  For some time its authenticity was doubted, and it was believed that there was really only one portrait of the author -- but having mulled over the essential features of this likeness, apparently (for the art experts) the nose swayed it........

She isn't that attractive, and has a studious and rather bookish look about her, but there is something cheeky about the face, and I can well believe that this is a genuine portrait of somebody astute at the business of poking fun at the precious world of the minor gentry in Regency times.

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