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 ...

When Henry Rice was growing up, a portrait of a young girl hung over the mantelpiece in the family home. It was, he was told, his illustrious forebear, for Rice is reportedly the sixth generation ...

Austen died in 1817 at at the age of 41 A British author is claiming to have unearthed a previously unseen portrait of Pride And Prejudice writer Jane Austen. Dr Paula Byrne, the author of a new ...

There is no definitive portrait of Jane Austen. No one knows exactly what she looked like. Whilst much has been written about her character and attributes, her 'real' appearance remains unclear ...

Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated writers of all time, but apart from a rough sketch by her sister Cassandra, we have very little idea what she looked like. Biographer Dr Paula Byrne ...

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 ...