A painting described as the "most famous image" of Jane Austen is sold at auction for £164,500. ... Jane Austen portrait fetches £164,500. Published. 11 ... Another early colour illustration by ...

Christie's is putting up for sale the only known oil painting of Jane Austen. The portrait could fetch up to $800,000 at auction, but some skeptics say the young girl in the painting is just too ...

A newly discovered pencil drawing, believed to be Jane Austen just before she died, is stirring up controversy in England. Austen scholar and biographer Paula Byrne was given the portrait ...

The first historically accurate illustration of Mr Darcy has been created (Picture: UKTV/Nick Hardcastle) An artist has created a historically accurate portrait of Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy ...

A Jane Austen biographer has criticised the Bank of England for selecting an "airbrushed" portrait of the author for its new £10 note. Oxford University fellow Dr Paula Byrne said the 1870 image ...

I’m looking at this portrait of Jane Austen and thinking that the early-nineteenth century writer was pretty cute. I mean yeah, she looks all 1810 with that bonnet and stuff, but if I met her in ...

The portrait's provenance is unknown; on its back someone wrote: "Miss Jane Austin," spelling the last name with an "I," as Austen herself did on her 1816 royalty check for her novel Emma.