Portraits of Jane Austen - JASNA
The only authenticated picture of Jane Austen is a small pencil and watercolor sketch made by her sister, Cassandra, on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Cassandra also painted a watercolor of her in a blue dress with her face hidden by a bonnet.
A Closer Look at Images of Jane Austen – AustenBlog
2010年5月9日 · As long as there has been a Jane Austen fandom, Janeites have been frustrated by a lack of good images of their favorite author. The only authenticated image of Jane is a small pencil-and-watercolor sketch done by Cassandra Austen, currently on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Six Portraits on Display Deepen the Mystery of Jane Austen
2017年5月19日 · Was Austen demure, sardonic, or glamorous? Each portrait tells a different story about the beloved author. James Andrews, “Jane Austen” (1869), watercolor Private collection, courtesy of the...
Jane Austen Illustrated: Portraits – the Good, the Bad and the …
2009年2月11日 · This famous oil painting was first used as the frontispiece in The Letters of Jane Austen, edited by Lord Brabourne in 1883. Controversially, it is still owned by the Rice family who recently unsuccessfully tried to sell it by auction at Christies for a bundle.
Curating Jane: Austen-Inspired Art - JASNA
On several pages of this website can be found paintings created by artists from around the world, all of whom, in notes to their works, have identified Jane Austen’s life or fiction as an influence on their art.
NPG 3630; Jane Austen - Portrait - National Portrait Gallery
This frank sketch depicts Jane Austen, one of Britain’s greatest and best-loved novelists. It is the only certain portrait from life and was made by her sister Cassandra (1773–1845), her closest confidante. The daughter of a rector, Austen was brought up in a close-knit family and began to write when young.
Taking a turn around Jane Austen's England - Art UK
2017年7月16日 · When searching for Jane Austen in art, the author herself proves enigmatic. There is only one confirmed portrait of her in existence, by Jane's sister Cassandra – which we'll soon all become well acquainted with when it adorns our ten pound notes.
Witches and Jedi Guardians: Jane Austen’s Portraits Then and Now
In 2001, 185 years after her death, the Jane Austen Centre in Bath commissioned a new portrait from a perhaps more unlikely artist: Melissa Dring, trained as a portrait painter by the Royal Academy Schools in London and as a Police Forensic artist by the FBI in Washington, D.C. Dring aimed to give us a younger Austen.
Jane Austen - Person - National Portrait Gallery
Jane Austen (1775-1817), Novelist. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 6 portraits Few English novelists have commanded such popular affection and critical respect as the author of some of the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century fiction, including Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816). The daughter of a ...
The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen
The Rice Portrait is the only oil painting of Jane Austen in existence. Owned by the Rice family, descendants of Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, it is a unique and beautiful portrayal of a young Jane Austen, painted in 1789, when she was writing her earliest works.